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[stevemcgarrett]

First an admission: I find few things in politics more repugnant than politicians who patronize the voters while pretending not to.

Hillary Clinton has once again adopted her fake Southern twang to "reach out" to black voters. This time around it's in Iowa, among the Yankees. Never mind that the Rodhams were Yankees until Bill "uncivilized" them. Shag carpet in the back of an El Camino has a way of doing that. Just ask Bill.

Anyhow, The Drudge Report has the latest video on YouTube (already twice mysteriously removed) of Hillary as Mrs. Harlan Sanders.
Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9TQq0C3Ac

This speech isn't just an issue of dialect--she was in a different region--but of her casual assumption that, why, all blacks enjoy hearing a Southern accent. Gee, Hillary, didn't know all blacks were like Uncle Remus in Song of the South.

And she changes her vocabulary and syntax. Gettin' down with the folks even if many of the blacks in the audience are college educated Midwesterners.

And the hypocrisy of it is not lost on the Republicans. If any one of them even so much as attempted an utterance of the same sort, he or she would be besieged by the mainstream media. Same ol' two step double standard which liberals on this board just overlook.

Not to be outdone...Senator Barack Obama is seen on video for the second time in a year courting Al Sharpton. Obama at least doesn't change his voice inflection but he does talk down too. Ingratiating himself to Sharpton would be like Giuliani meeting up with David Duke.

Yes, the comparison is fair. Why? Because Sharpton is not only a charlatan and rabble rouser in the worst sense of the word but a liar and a race baiter. Michelle Malkin has a feature on Sharpton on Hot Air and her other website. Now of course none of you "open-minded" liberals and leftists would deign to go there and watch the video clip of Sharpton IN HIS OWN WORDS demonstrating his falsehoods, would you?
See: http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/20/the-party-of-hate

Or this from former NY mayor Ed Koch (hardly a neo-con):

"Al Sharpton has spoiled his chance to become "a crossover leader" by refusing to apologize for "the Tawana Brawley hoax."

Sharpton, for once, reportedly had nothing to say in response. If there's video of this, let me know.

Consider this: Obama knows he lied in the Tawana Brawley case and ruined a DA's career. He has been on the record admitting that he likes to stir up his black base by blaming whitey at the drop of a hat (again see the video) and he's an uneducated lout. Didn't know jackshi-t about the Federal Reserve when asked in the 2004 debates. Pretends to care about his people but manipulates them by preying on their fears.

If Obama is different, should he be distancing himself from the likes of Sharpton or Jackson? Or is winning that crucial black vote more important? Just being seen with Jackson is demeaning, or is it?

[Octavius Hite]

[stevemcgarrett]

Gee, all the liberals who've been gushing over Obama are suddenly strangely quiet.

[Octavius Hite]

Well since your "factual" source is drudge we'll all take it with a grain of salt. They are still better than any of the candidates the Republicraps have put up.

[Hollywoodaction]

Looks to me like that video was strategically edited to highlight the parts where she supposedly sounds 'Southern', but she really doesn't.

Besides, if she was in fact sounding 'southern' (and I'm not convinced that she was), how would you know this is not how she speaks at home? She's lived in Arkansas for quite a while. Her husband is from Arkansas, after all. It's only natural that she'd pick up some of his own linguistic inflections. My wife, for example, speaks English with what resembles a Canadian accent even though she's only spent a total of 6 months in Canada in all her life.

Oh, and that Al Sharpton video, isn't it ironic that it accuses him of being a rabble rouser when it does the same thing? I mean, they follow a clip of him saying, "Our votes are not for sale", with "This hate monger..." As you can see, this is certainly not the most balanced piece of video you could have come up with.

Al Sharpton is probably as qualified to be in politics as anyone else. So, he's a rabble rouser...aren't all politicians? Let me clue you in on a little secret: most politicians are just figureheads. Some of them may be smart, but they leave the real work to their subordinates.

[stevemcgarrett]

Hite sputtered:

[Hollywoodaction]

[stevemcgarrett]

If you're an anarchist, you're worse than a liberal.

If you're a misanthrope, you shouldn't be teaching.

Chalk up another loser to the left on this board.

[endo]

Why are all your thread titles in caps?

[khyber]

[contrarian]

I hope the Democrats run either Hillary or Barak Hussein Obama. There is a large core of votes in the US that will not vote for a woman or a black. The leaves the Republicans. I still like MCCain

[stevemcgarrett]

I like McCain too. But I worry that he won't have the "charisma" (re: fake charm) to capture the nomination.

He's got loads of integrity in my book and he knows when to compromise.

[Hollywoodaction]