My wife's Dad was Canadian and Mom was from Louisiana, she has trouble with words like roof and iron, because of their so different styles of speach. Yet she is an extremely intelligent women who lives in a house with as roof and our clothes have been neatly pressed for the past 26 years.
Making fun of a person's shortcomings seems awfully Alec Baldwin to me.
As far as the National Guard thing is concerned, I have no problem with any one who serves as a reservist, period, end of story. However, the hypocricy of many on this board concerning this very same topic with regard to other politicians, (i.e. Democratic)is pathetic. GWB, Air National Guard = some sort of national hero who has served his country with pride and destinction; while Al Gore who at least to least went to Vietnam, although in the rear area is some sort of a commie panty waist. And just how different was Dan Quayle's deferrment from W's. Now, I hold no special place in my heart for either of the above mentioned veeps, but I find it ironic how GWB can be placed upon some sort of pedestal while his oponents have been slammed for pretty much the same thing. By the same thing, I mean children of the rich and famous, in some cases getting the less dangerous military assignments than others.