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5.8.07 @ 12:01AM

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Re: Marilia Duffles & Jeffrey Lord's Why Hillary Talks Like Bill:

If she walks like a Clinton, talks like a Clinton, is she a Clinton? It does not matter how Hillary Clinton is packaged and what American dialect she is speaking that week, America knows who Hillary Rodam Clinton is.

Many of us still remember her, "I ain't gonna bake no stinking cookies" episode during her husband's first four years in office. It was not so much that she slammed the institution of marriage and the American wife, it was the fact that she said it with so much vitriol and disdain, a person could see the Toll House cookie dough oozing between her clenched fists.

The outright hatred and anger that Hillary Clinton displayed as the First Lady for eight years is what many Americans remember. The forced smiles, the frozen amateurish attempts at showing any affection towards her philandering husband, speaking in various American dialects that made Hillary utter the phrase of her desire to be the, "First multilingual President."

How does Hillary Clinton expect to convince us to vote for her when she openly mocks us and the common language that we share? It is not multilingual, it is English and this is the language of Americans. By all appearances this disdain for her fellow Americans that Mrs. Clinton lets slip through from time to time when she strays from her scripted speeches is not something that she has learned recently, but rather a seething rage that she developed many years ago and this rage has been kept in check for her lust for political power.

If Hillary Clinton is elected President, what or whom will keep this anger in check? Will it be Bill? Not likely because she will no longer have a use for him. Will it be Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or the rest of the Democrats in Congress? Probably not because they're thirst for power is as insatiable as Hillary's. There will be no one to protect Americans and especially conservatives from her wrath and vindictiveness to settle old political and personal scores.

Close your eyes for a moment and visualize the scene of her inauguration night, and the glow of Washington D.C. in the night sky. But this glow isn't from the various balls that will adorn our nation's capital, but rather the Washington D.C. skyline will resemble the Atlanta skyline during the Civil War as it was burnt to the ground. This is what awaits Republicans and Conservatives in Washington D.C., there is no Presidential honeymoon in Hillary's itinerary only political revenge and the beginning of her march to the sea to settle old scores. This is what Hillary Clinton seeks and desires no matter what American dialect she speaks in.
-- Melvin L. Leppla
Jacksonville, North Carolina

Speaking as a person who spent accent-formation years in outside of Southern and Southern-influenced venues. I am thinking it is more than the senator being patronizing to certain audiences; there appears to be a concerted effort at accent modification to broaden her appeal beyond Park Ridge, Illinois, I can understand why that nasal, strident, suburban Chicago dialect can have an effect on people -- I got teased about it from a shop teacher when the family moved to Colorado, and I am pretty sure it influences my student-feedback ratings now that I am teaching.

Is Senator Clinton seeing an "accent coach"? I recently saw and heard her speak on TV with that Southern-affect accent people are talking about, and I am thinking she is talking that way Cook County.

The problem is that of actor John Ratzenberger portraying the character Cliff Claven from TV's Cheers. The accent was believable to me, but it made people who grew up in New England cringe. I am thinking a half-baked Southern accent is worse of all outcomes. It will be interesting to listen to how this attempt at accent modification evolves.
-- Paul Milenkovic
Madison, Wisconsin

"Females, in turn, are biologically programmed to be impressed by the antics in this arena for one reason: to ensure good genes for their offspring."

Actually, females in many mammalian and avian species have a different reason for selecting "dominant" mates: they are dependent on the male for support during reproduction, and dominant males control more resources. Human females fall very much into this class.

As Lorelei Lee said in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: "Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty?"

Male dominance is sexually attractive in its own right,
but life is replete with women pursuing feeble rich men.
-- Rich Rostrom

It's simple: Mrs. Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, etc. are self-serving ass kissers. No difference between them and the effeminate males that make up their party. Gender bending is alive and well on the left.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

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