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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:42 PM
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Edwards: Please take some speech lessons !!
To me, Edwards has it all. Heart. Brains. Drive. Compassion.

So why isn't he the unquestionable favorite?

I think it is because of his accent. Like it or not, he can sound like a hick. And much of the country equates a thick southern accent with lack of intelligence. Like it or not - it's reality. I am just happy that the whole subject of getting NATO involved in Iraq is passe. Because he used to pronounce it NAY' TOE and I couldn't help but cringe.

John, please get some voice lessons ! I know there are speech experts who can help you tone down your accent. You are a national treasure and our country needs you desperately!!
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Reno.Muse Donating Member (307 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:44 PM
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1. this man is who he is and he's won in court because he knows how to present
himself. Not everyone can be a glazed over rehearsed Clinton wife.
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM
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But, he's won in court in the Carolinas, right? I am not asking him
to change a single word he says, jut to moderate the accent - since I know it will hurt him (NY, CA. CT, MA, NJ)
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:49 PM
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15. are you honestly suggesting that
Edited on Thu Nov-29-07 09:51 PM by frogcycle
his courtroom prowess would not have won outside NC?

Sheeesh!

edit:
sheeeee-ut!
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:52 PM
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25. Have no idea if he would have won the same case elsewhere. All
I do know is that up north people think anyone with a thick southern accent is not as intelligent as the rest. It's reality. Shouldn't be, but it is.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:58 PM
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32. well, I have only one comment
fuuuuuuck them!

Since I am half Tennessee and half Brooklyn, I have experience on both sides.

And you can bet your sweet ass that down south they think that people with a damned yankee accent are hucksters, shysters, shills, you-name-it.

But the voters who stumble half asleep to the polls and vote based on accent, hair color, or house size are not going to be swayed no way no how. So I repeat:

fuuuuuuck them!
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:01 PM
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39. It's not a matter of "voting based on accent" No one does that
It's a matter of not even giving him the time of day because there is a stereotype.

Yes, I agree, been north and south, in Texas they say "Yankee" like it is a dirty word.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:51 PM
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22. how do you know that, seriously? I live in California and i lived in Mass for 30 years
and no voters in both places and Edward's accent doesn't seem to bother any of them.

I'm thinking it's something that bothers you.
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:54 PM
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28. Maybe it's just from growing up in snooty CT. Where they make fun
of southerners. Just like Bill Maher does.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:55 PM
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30. Bill Clinton seemed to do just fine in those states.
Edited on Thu Nov-29-07 09:56 PM by chimpsrsmarter
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:01 PM
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38. wayul hayul!
people in the south make fun of southerners too. Redneck jokes are popular. Billy Bob jokes are fun.

thet don't mean they won't vote for 'em, just cuz they poke fun at 'em!
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:05 PM
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42. I think Mrs. "glazed-over"
...went overboard on the training.

That robotic, drone of a monotone--combined with her digital emotions and lack
of blinking--throws out a warmed-over Borg feel.

It's not natural and it gives me the friggin creeps.

I can't imagine sitting down and having coffee with someone who talks
like that.

PLEASE. PASS....THE...CREAM...I...LIKE...CREAM...

Creep city, man.
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:45 PM
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2. Relax. He still sounds better than the chimpanzee.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:48 PM
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13. Any Human Would, Frankly
We took to Jimmy and Bill all right, and they aren't exactly Midwestern nasal, either.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM
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3. Leave him alone!
Edited on Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM by supernova
His accent is fine and .... genuine. Not the manufactured one you hear on movies and TV.

Mike Huckabee by comparison doesn't have much of an accent. Is he more presentable some how?
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:53 PM
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27. Huckabee has no 'presentation' problems, really--his problems are CONTENT related!
He's an amiable, affable, easily met, kindly, confident, friendly trustworthy fucking KOOK...who thinks that Fred, Wilma and Pebbles actually DID walk the earth with DINO lo, six thousand years ago!
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:58 PM
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34. Wow, you're right. Content totally aside, he does come off
sounded more average America. Good approach on his part. You don't look at him and immediately think "a southerner".


Once again, not wanting to change anything about Edwards = what he believes or says. I love the guy. Just tone down the southern drawl.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM
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4. Edward's southern accent verses Guiliani snarky lisp, i'll take Edward's thanks.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:50 PM
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18. I phthink thhhat Giuliani-th curiouth lithsp ith very off-putting, mythelf!
He sounds like a MEL BLANC cartoon character...a cross between Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig, or something (or thshould I thay thom-thing) along those lines...
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:51 PM
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24. sssssseriously!
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1corona4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:16 PM
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55. Well, that's true...
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM
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5. This isn't dancing with the stars, ms. priss Marie Osmond dollcake show.
Edited on Thu Nov-29-07 09:48 PM by lonestarnot
He has more sense in his shit than a Huckabee (rryfin). So who would give a shit if it's said in Southern drawl, or New York Bronx? :shrug:
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM
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6. Those of us who find his accent refreshing and "down home"
just might have similar comments about plenty of other candidates.

John Kennedy had the most awful, obnoxious accent ever - except for Bobbie. Didn't seem to hurt. And more people dislike bahstan then dislike Dixie!
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zabet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM
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7. Sez you.
Bein' a 'hick',
I find that there
raght objectionable
to my person.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM
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8. His accent varies, I've noticed. Sometimes it is stronger than others. NT
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:49 PM
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14. I haven't noticed that. Interesting. I lived in the south for a while and
the business I was in had speech pathologists who came in and taped everyone and then worked with them to tone down the accents. I truly think it would help him. I want him to win!!!!!!!
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:58 PM
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33. I have had a chance to see his commercials, and then see clips of him on tee vee
or during the debates. The commercials running in NH seemed, to my ear, much less 'accented' than his live appearances, particularly his last debate performance (which, IMO, wasn't as good as some of his other efforts).
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:22 PM
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61. Well, you know Hillary kind of nipped him in the but - about the
"mud slinging." He seemed tentative after that. I would just love to hear him just blow off the stupid questions and say, this is what I believe in, boom, boom, boom...

Interesting about NH, I'll have to look for that.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:31 PM
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67. maybe she'd have liked to nip him in the butt
but not in front of all those people :rofl:
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ilovesunshine Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:47 PM
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9. You forgot handsome.
He's really easy on the eyes.
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1corona4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:18 PM
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57. IF, you happen to like boyish good looks...
and I'm not slamming, I'm just saying, he may not appeal to every woman...he doesn't appeal to me.
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:47 PM
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10. You must think I am dumb. "lack of intelligence"???
I have a Southern accent, always have, always will. I make no apologies for it....it is just part of me.
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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:47 PM
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11. I don't really hear
Edited on Thu Nov-29-07 09:47 PM by waiting for hope
accents - and I live in North Carolina so he speaks just fine for me. I also lived in New Orleans for 14 years and only heard a true Cajun accent once, in Lafayette on my honeymoon. I think this country is becoming a huge melting pot - anywho, I kinda like his voice, and would think it would be fantastic hearing it as he speaks from any podium in the White House!
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:47 PM
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12. Trying to
change our candidates, huh? :)

Imo, Edwards isn't Numero Uno, yet, because of the corporatemediawhores..but that could be just moi.
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radiclib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:49 PM
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16. You've gotta be kidding
You think the "phony" smear has legs now? Wait'll he shows up with a newfound middle-American broadcaster's no-accent. And I rather doubt that "toning down" his accent will help him in the southern states.
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goodgd_yall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:49 PM
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17. But Carter and Clinton and Johnson were elected with southern accents
It doesn't really make a difference. Some people are turned off, but they're not really moved by his message anyway.
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:50 PM
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19. As someone from the South, I really have to disagree with your analogy.
Edwards has a slight southern accent, yes, but it is the upper-crust Carolinian accent. Not a hick/hillbilly accent. WORLD of difference there. I truly don't believe his accent does anything but brand him as authentic, not some fake candidate who is scared to be what he is or admit where he came from. Worst thing he could possibly do? Voice lessons :toast:
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ChiciB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:05 PM
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43. I Agree... Get A Pack Of Georgians Together And You're In Real Trouble...
Now, don't get me wrong Georgia accents are just fine, Alabama too... but they have STRONG southern accents. Then check out Louisiana, and I love that place... but that state accent catches me a lot!

Actually, I don't hear that much of an accent from Edwards, and I don't live in "hick-town" either! Actually I live just a little south from the town they call one of the "cultural centers of the south."
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:50 PM
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20. Oh c'mon. He could probably talk like Henry Higgins if he wanted to. It's exaggerated on purpose.
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PresidentObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:50 PM
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21. In 2004, Kerry sounded like a elitist phony liberal to some. My, how the times HAVEN'T changed.
We focus on candidates southern accents, expensive haircuts, and big houses.

Issues? Who needs em'
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:51 PM
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23. We'll take all the voters who talk a bit like that in 2008. Besides, nobody
ever told Lyndon Johnson he had a Texas accent.

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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:52 PM
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26. stereotyping is wrong
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:04 PM
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41. yes, it is. Irrelevent.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:07 PM
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45. you are obviously
one of those close-minded anti-stereotyping bigots. You are all alike!
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:13 PM
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51. You got to be kidding. I'm left of Gandhi. But, I am also a realist
and impressions (whether right or wrong) are a reality that you
have to consider when you are running for national office. And anything you can do to mitigate (without changing what you say, your ideas or who you are) could help you win more votes.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:29 PM
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65. duh
a) I was addressing jsamuel, not you
b) It was a joke
c) You Yankees have no sense of humor
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:54 PM
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29. he is not the best speaker but........
anything is better than bush`s "s`s"
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:56 PM
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31. It took me a while to get used to it, but I hardly notice his accent now.
I used to think he sounded like Forrest Gump! (sorry! :blush: ) But the more I have listened to what he had to say, the more impressed with him I became. It was really his sincerity that pulled me in. Altering his speech would seem very phony at this point, IMO.
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:06 PM
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44. OMG Thank you so much for saying that !! I felt the same - and I
do think he would be a great president.

I think it is just certain words - like maybe just a handful - that would help.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:59 PM
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35. Edwards is probably my least-favorite candidate
but his accent has never been an issue for me.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:00 PM
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36. I love accents...
No matter where they're from ~ gives a person character. Remember Kennedy's Boston accent?

Accents are cool beans imo!
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ChiciB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:00 PM
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37. Guess I've Lived In The South Too Long... Even Though I Was Born In
PA it doesn't bother me at all. He actually talks a LOT better than so many other southerners. My husband was born in FL and there were times in the beginning I didn't know WHAT he was saying. He used to say "how much do you like?" And I would say "like what?" Then his reply... " How much do you like (lack) being done?" Ya just gotta catch one at times!

And there are MANY others!
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:01 PM
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40. Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton
even Junior - I think that at this stage of the game accents do not determine the elections outcome.
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:08 PM
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46. keep thinking that while HRC or Obama run right past him. But,
you're probably right about it being too late. He should have worked on it a bit since 2004.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:11 PM
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49. face it
nobody agrees with you. Put a sock in it
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:17 PM
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56. HA, like I really thought many would agree. People here always
jump without thinking - trash the messenger. What would have been much more refreshing would have been an intellectual debate about how the way one speaks affects one's image. Especially when the person is running for national office. I want the man to win. You tell me what's keeping him down. And don't say that Hillary owns the media - that's old.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:55 PM
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70. i would not have said that
but being 'old' does not make an argument wrong. Is that the sort of 'intellectual debate' you seek?

What's "keeping him down" is that big business owns the media and the pollsters and they are scared of him. Hillary doesn't own the media - big business just likes Hillary.

I expect you'll find that big business does not own the people of Iowa, and both of the glamor kids may be in for a comeuppance.
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terisan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:09 PM
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47. Uh......are you prejudiced ? Whose accent do you like? nt
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:10 PM
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48. Bush sounds like an illiterate douchebag because it's a MANUFACTURED accent...
...Edwards' drawl is genuine. It makes a HUGE difference in perception to those with at least half a brain (i.e. non-Bushbots)!

BTW, just came from an Edwards appearance earlier this evening - I'm about to post a thread on it!
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:27 PM
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64. cool = thanks. You are right about Bush accent - just pull up
the videos of his governor speeches. No accent.
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:12 PM
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50. I believe John Edwards in sincere, but he doesn't come off that way to some.
I don't know what it is, but every now and then I sense it too.

I've been put off by Edwards since he took unfair swipes, my opinion, at Clinton.

I love what he says when he's not attacking other Democrats.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:13 PM
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52. well, I love what he says when he is
telling it like it is, whether about big business or dino's
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:18 PM
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58. Thank you for a calm, reasoned opinion. How refreshing.
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1corona4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:14 PM
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53. You know...
I have to admit, it's something I have given thought to as well. I think just having to hear him, the drawl will just remind me of Bush. No offense to southerners, and I don't associate it with lack of intelligence at all, but I prefer correct enunciation when speaking, especially with a professional, high profile person.

Sorry!!!
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:16 PM
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54. AFAIC, his voice is the best thing he has going for him
Yeah, it's a "thick southern accent" as you say, but he plays it up perfectly, that much I gotta give him. He really knows how to deliver that southern charm. Unfortunately for his competitors, Edwards voice is a powerful weapon. It's kind of the same thing as the Goddess of Peace's smile. It just melts ya.
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PresidentObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:22 PM
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60. Wow a compliment to Edwards from Mtnsnake. Kudos!!
I know you dislike Senator Edwards, but I couldn't say that more perfectly myself.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:21 PM
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59. I don't think his accent is it... maybe a tad. More bad style
It might work in front of a jury. But he does lack any type of crispness in his speech.
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:25 PM
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62. Interesting. I think I'll pull up some of his videos and look again.
I know a lot of things he says he says over and over again. Guess they all do. But, when you do that, and your opponents get wind of it, they have plenty of time to come up with zingers against it.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:29 PM
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66. What're you sayin'?
You don't like our down-homeyness? :-(
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:41 PM
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68. I LOVE his accent
its part of his charm
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:49 PM
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69. I like his accent. It's who he is and that's AOK with me.
I don't want John to change his accent the way Hillary has done or George W. does.

I live in Southern California and I've never heard anyone call him a "hick".

And he does have it "all" as you say.
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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 11:00 PM
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71. Pray, what other way is there to pronounce "NATO?"
I have never heard anyone pronounce it any other way than "NAY-toe." How on earth do you say it? "Neigh-doe?" "Natto?" "Netto?" By the way, I somewhat agree with you on obnoxious accents. I would never vote for someone who sounded like Edith Bunker, no matter what her qualifications. Naturally, as a Georgian living in Mississippi, I personally have no accent at all. :D
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 11:09 PM
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72. Everyone has their own criteria for criticizing candidates....I doubt his accent hurts with more....
than a very few...
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L84TEA Donating Member (668 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 11:25 PM
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73. Oh Oh I think his voice is SEXY!! nt
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Greylyn58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 11:54 PM
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74. John's accent is just fine
If Johnson can be elected.

If Carter can be elected.

If Clinton can be elected...all with authentic Southern accents, then I don't think Edwards will have a problem.

Beside...after 6 1/2 years of having to listen to the absolute worst fake accent on the planet, I would definitely rather listen to John Edwards over the pResident ass-hat squatting in the White House.
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1932 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 12:07 AM
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75. Lots of Americans have accents.
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