Not a surprise. If you were stuck in Macon, GA, you'd feel the need to fit in right away,

But it's worse than that.
(Editorial. Verify all claims yourself.)

Mitt Romney met with Billy Graham and came away with the endorsement of Billy, aka Jesus Christ's Personal Secretary, which, like, TOTALLY trumps Obama's nutty preacher bidness.

Not until the Graham website took down Gladhandin' Billy's anti-Mormon commentary, of course.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/18/billy-graham-buys-election-ads-after-romney-meeting/?hpt=hp_t1

Next week's October Surprise: Billy Graham reaches his blessed hand into the afterlife and secures the Ayn Rand endorsement for Mitt from beyond the grave!

But Barry grew up in Hawaii, not Georgia. How did he develop this accent?

> I've also noticed Hillary Clinton going hick.

Tell it to Tammy:

During the political damage control over the Gennifer Flowers episode during the 1992 campaign, Hillary Clinton said in the joint 60 Minutes interview, "I'm not sitting here as some little woman 'standing by my man' like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together." The seemingly sneering reference to country music provoked immediate criticism that Clinton was culturally tone-deaf, and Tammy Wynette herself did not like the remark because her classic song "Stand by Your Man" is not written in the first person.

LAMB: Well, you say here that—and `Aside from the flaws in Bell's own argument discussed in Chapter 7 and the utter lack of empirical evidence that capitalism is languishing, there is something unseemly about a wealthy and powerful woman and former Wal-Mart director lecturing a selection of the world's wealthiest people on the evils of consumer aspirations. Intellectuals easily accept such ideas because they tend not to count their own pleasures, such as travel, books, art, gourmet food or tax-deductible conferences in Switzerland as consumerist indulgences, and for those motivated primarily by power or fame, of course, consumer products are trivial pleasures.'

Ms. POSTREL: Right.

LAMB: Did you have fun writing that footnote?

I tend to pick up speech patterns, accents and local idioms fairly quickly.

I havent visited my familly in Tennessee in years, still use 'y'all' and 'crick' fairly often

I have a good friend who is bi-racial. She doesn't sound either black or white, she sounds *Pittsburgh*.

Humans are humans, and they pick up their speech patterns from the people around them as they learn to talk. If someone sounds different each time they speak, they are forcing themselves to sound that way in an effort to pander to their audience.

So the big scandal is that we have a black president that sometimes speaks like a black man? Oh the humanity!

Did the writer go after Northerner Mitt Romney for visiting southern states saying things like: "Hi Y'all. I started my morning off right with some biscuits and gravy!" during the republican primaries? What exactly is the difference? I would link to a vid but I don't want my comment to get kicked into the spam filter.

Yes Obama had a controversial preacher who had some nutty beliefs. But are they any more nutty then believing: that you should wear magic underwear, that you'll get your own planet when you die, or having a grandfather who started a polygamous compound? Again I fail to see a significant difference.