Posted by
Bullfrog on Saturday, April 28, 2007 11:10:31 AM
By Froggie, Special Correspondent to the BS Detector
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that her affected Southern accent is god-given.
"I
think America is ready for a multilingual president," said Clinton at a
charter school in Greenville, S.C. "God gave me that gift."
The
New York senator, who grew up in Chicago, claimed that the fake
Southern accent she used in Selma, Alabama, comes from her
post-collegiate years living in Arkansas. "I speak Midwest, Northern,
and Southrin. How multilingual can you get?"
She again pulled
out the fake accent last week when addressing a civil rights group in
New York City headed by the Rev. Al Sharpton. "Colored folk eat this
stuff up" Clinton claimed, when asked why she only uses the accent in
front of black audiences. "Obama sounds edjicated. I need to sound
folksy to win their vote."
In a post-debate poll,
Obama nudged ahead of Clinton, favored 31% to 24%.