what a tool
- Posted by Martin on February 29th, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Martin
Why do they have to do that??? Sayeth Barack Obama to a Texas audience comprised mostly of blacks:
Said Obama: “Y’all have Popeyes out in Beaumont? I know some of y’all you got that cold Popeyes out for breakfast. I know. That’s why y’all laughing. … You can’t do that. Children have to have proper nutrition. That affects also how they study, how they learn in school.”
Errrrr. Y’all? Y’all?
Editor of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Smartypants Obamessiah?
Y’all? Is that how you really talk? Really?
pk says:
Can y’all say, “Douche Nozel”?
PaulW says:
Hey, have you ever been to Texas? For more than 10 minutes? I stopped over at the Houston Airport for more than an hour, and trust me by the time I boarded the plane I was saying “y’all,” spouting crazy metaphors like Molly Ivins and rooting for the nearest high school football team before the airline crew could sedate me.
The only person to ever visit the Lone Star State and not come out of it with Texan mannerisms was Queen Elizabeth II, and even then there were reports of wanting her spotted dick BBQed for months afterward. Swear to God, we need to find some tape of poor ole Buckley ever visiting Tejas and see how that clipped intellectual accent of his even lasted more than an hour… I doubt it.
Beth says:
Maybe his speech coach is the same one who coaches Hillary.
Huckabee oughta drop out of the race, but since he hasn’t, he ought to bitch-slap those two posers for bastardizing the language with faux Southern-speak.
PaulW says:
Now now, Beth, it should come from within their own party. Paging Jimmy Cartah… oh Mistah Cartah, there’s some fake southernahs horning in on y’alls culture…
raz0r says:
I ain’t from Texas (Florida native). I use y’all all the time. And I have a college education (computer engineering). I can’t knock him for using y’all. My wife (yankee that she is) wasted no time picking it up when she met me. The missus now has a sort of Georgia meets Florida accent.
Beth says:
Floridians have an accent? (I mean other than those from L.A.)
raz0r says:
Not countin’ the transplants, there are a couple of accents. One is sort of rural, the other more of a Southern gentility. Both are disappearing though along with terminology.
Example. When I was young, they were cokes. Didn’t matter if it was Coke, Pepsi, or RC Cola. Not any more. Now most folks call ‘em sodas.