Sounds like Barack is trying to bring out this southern accent!

I hated it when Bush did it but I like it now that Obama is doing it. LOL

either speak like that all the time, or not at all.

you just start talking like that. When I was in Kuwait, I was shocked to hear myself start talking like our Pakistani cable guys...it just happens.

I even did it yesterday when I went to get my eyebrows threaded. The lady is from India...

I get it when I'm around Canadians, Southerners, and the slow "I reckon" stuff when I'm in Wyoming. It just happens.

That pulls the hair cleanly out of its follicle. Relatively new in the States.

but then again, I don't have many hairs there to start with. :-) In fact, I have permanent makeup done once a year to fill in.

Eyebrow threading is a depilation technique which originated in India, although it is also widely practiced in the Middle East. Salons in Western nations offered the service to Middle Eastern clients for decades before European and American women became interested and the popularity of eyebrow threading skyrocketed. The hair removal technique is not just for the eyebrows: threading can be used to remove other facial and body hair as well.

The technique is sometimes listed on salon menus as khite or fatlah, which are both Arabic words for threading. Eyebrow threading involves twisting a piece of thread, usually cotton, into a double strand. This double stranded thread is used to pick up a line of hair and then remove it, creating a very clean, precise hairline. Eyebrow threading is the technique preferred by Indian movie stars, who are often distinguished by their crisp brow lines.

Eyebrow threading can be used to eliminate a unibrow, raise the arch of the eyebrow, or add shape and definition to the brow. Because it removes hair by the follicle, it is a reasonably long lasting hair removal technique as well. Repeat visits after three to four weeks are standard. The technique is also not terribly expensive because it is easy to do quickly and does not require costly chemical ingredients. For women who would like to pursue a more natural beauty regimen, eyebrow threading is a good choice, since it does not use harmful products.

Eyebrow threading is a preferred hair removal technique for a number of reasons. Unlike tweezing or plucking, eyebrow threading removes one clean line of hair all at once, making it much quicker and easier to shape the brows. Eyebrow threading also will not harm the skin like wax and some depilatory creams can. If done correctly, the skin should not be red or irritated for more than a few minutes after the eyebrow threading session. Some aestheticians also find it easier to shape eyebrows using this technique than other methods available.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-eyebrow-threading.htm

but not as painful as waxing.

My hubby got his eyebrows cleaned up and they made him cry - lol!!!

Do you like it? I'd like to do that as well, but thought it might look too fake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK-QzPLgUTo

you can see it there.

I don't think people in JAX have an accent. Not that I've observed.

No one fucking cares about your concern over Obama's alleged Southern accent.

I'm entitled to my opinion. Whether or not YOU like it. I just don't want him to get accused of pandering, that's all.

My husband and I (both northerners all our lives) just moved to SC, and we catch ourselves unwittingly mimicking the speech patterns of those people we've met and liked. Just saying that I don't think he's doing it on purpose. :D

if I'm around someone with an accent...
I have to force myself not to mimic...

it feels like an automatic thing.

It takes me a few hours to revert back to saying "upair" for "up there," pronouncing "aisle" "isle" and "owl" the same way and just running everything together. I feel sorry for my poor husband when he has to ask me to translate lol. I only speak that way when I'm there or when I'm around someone who is from there. Pittsburghese :D

Lived in Mass, CT and RI for most of my life until we moved down here to Cornelius NC and every now and then I catch myself sounding like a pure bred Carolinian

thanks!

like Southerners! So what?! I really didn't notice any difference in Obama's speech. I learned Spanish when I lived in San Diego too. Some are just more adept at picking up accents and langauges..gets boring to speak the same all the time..for me, anyway.

bush is in another league..doesn't having ANY endearing qualities.

Edit to add~ When I lived on Kauai for 6 years I was speaking local and picking up Hawaiian..it's FUNB-)

When you grow up like him, it is actually more natural to have various different tones depending.

One's manner of speaking is based on one's experience....and OBama has been from Hawaii, to Los Angeles and then on to New York. To the south side of Chicago, and the choirs of the Black churches, Then on to Harvard, and lastly, to the halls of congress. He is what we call diverse. Criticizing him for his life experience and how it manifests itself is a cheap trick.

Mommy's all right, Daddy's all right, they just seem a little weird...

of Obama's life, Frenchie..it's so true.

Depending on who I'm with, I may sound like my Irish grandparents or Southern Ohio or Central New York!

with an air of arrogance! WTF! And I was driving in the car! A pasty white, fat-ass, has-been t.v. weather forecaster filling in on talk radio, and HE is going to deign to discuss Obama and INTERPRET his gait??! :puke:

If I stop posting on here, it will be because this loon has been on the radio one too many times, and I have probably swerved off the Interstate 40--doing 80-85 MPH--and am in traction in the hospital, or worse!

:hi:

I just love how people who tore Hillary to shreads for this are now saying it doesn't matter. I, unlike them, will be consistent. People tend to speak like those they are around. That is what Hillary did and that is what he is doing.

Sounding like a Black Preacher by some....at certain times.

Why did Obama speak in a preacher accent during yesterday's speech?
Edited on Fri Jan-04-08 06:25 PM by Herman Munster
Was that a deliberate attempt to make him look like Martin Luther King? Previously that accent was only a "South Carolina special" reserved for black churches there. It's the first time I've heard him use it with white audiences.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3955231


Nader: Obama trying to 'talk white'
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/25/nader-critical-of-obama-for-trying-to-talk-white/


:shrug:

resting in misery. May the SOB NEVER RIP!

primaries are over.

Sorry but for months I was called every name in the book for daring to support Hillary with just about 0 Obama supporters standing up to the bullying. I was called a faggot, a racist, and a whole lot else. Sorry, but it is damn hard not to mention the utter, total, and complete hypocrisy that Obama supporters are now engaged in. I am voting for the man and will canvas for him too but I won't forget, for a hell of a long time, the horrid behavior to which I was subjected on this website with literally no one apologizing.

Quit your bitchin'.

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They are over.

If you can't get over, then you know what you can do.

You have complained about Obama forever, and so we understand...and you have made yourself clear more than an number of times.

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at this point I couldn't care less about Obama. I will vote for him, we have an open gov race here and a Senate race. They will take my time, my money, and my passion. I will vote for Obama only because I am already in the booth. His supporters, his dishonest campaign, and his repeated snubs of gays have irrevocably turned me off. If not for the gay forum and the recovery forum I would be long gone from DU thanks entirely to Obama supporters.
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one who is so self absorbed and delusional.

voice", and Obama is no different. I hate that I have not heard him speak in what is probably a more relaxed "probably-being-himself" tone of voice. I love that genuiness in anyone and everyone. Haven't any of you ever "teased" someone you call because they don't sound like themselves when using their "professional" voice?

(Actually I am also part Cherokee)

I agree 100%

I call that "being comfortable in his own skin" (I use that expression regarding myself - "being comfortable in my own skin")

And that is how I view his different way of expressing himself - he is comfortable enough to do it - which makes me wonder if he doesn't feel more comfortable about the way his campaign and this election is going.....

We talk just right.