Friday, September 12, 2008

Obama's Speech Patterns

Bill Clinton had one. George Bush had a fake one. Stephen Colbert got rid of his. Now Obama seems to be trying to acquire a southern accent. Maybe he thinks that the northeast and California is so deeply in his corner that he need not try to relate to them through familiar patterns of speech. Perhaps the majority of this country is so stupid that they can't vote for some fast talking black man from up north. Whatever the reason, it infuriates me to hear Obama flatten out his a's. Listen to Obama's lipstick speech as he talks about policAH. He sounds like fucking Cartman.

Here is a good video of Obama speaking clearly and normally with what I would expect would be the normal pattern of speech of a Harvard educated guy. Listen to how he says "policy."

Now here he is talking about policah.

Here is Cartman

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