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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:27 PM Original message |
Why does Bush have an accent? |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. From an acting coach...where else? |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. A very good acting coach |
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allalone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 11:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. couldn't have been a very good coach |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-04 04:45 PM Response to Reply #29 |
43. yeah but good enough to make people not realize hes from connecticut |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. He needed one to "fit in" with the Native-born Texans |
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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 06:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Doesn't fit with my experience |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 06:22 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. HE was so insecure, that he felt he needed it.. |
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Big Kahuna (903 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. Degenerative brain disease. |
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Columbia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-04 04:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
42. That's what I think too |
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olddem43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
5. He obviously cultivated the accent - |
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Moonbeam_Starlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. His siblings don't have accents either. |
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Lisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-04 04:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
40. Timothy Bottoms noticed that too ... |
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DAGDA56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. And to my ear, Jeb does not! Didn't they grow up together? |
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Silverhair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
8. He did spend his early boyhood in Midland, TX. |
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Career Prole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. Just like everything about the bush family |
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Shoeempress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
10. He grew up in Connecticut, schooled at Phillips Andover, MA(an incredibly |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
11. Because he's an asshole |
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happynewyear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
12. he is pretending to be a Texan |
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Longhorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
13. It's largely an adopted accent. |
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rogerashton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Me, too |
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Zang (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. haha |
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KC21304 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
14. I'm sure he aquired it around the same time he realized |
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tnlefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 07:28 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Well, he went 0 for 2 with this southerner! I reject his religion and his |
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prayin4rain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
15. I think it is more of slur than an accent. |
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benito (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. Why does Governor Arnold still have his Austrian accent? |
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billybob537 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. He chose Texas accent |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
22. To my ear, he doesn't have an accent - he has several |
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Pharlo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 07:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. The closest I have come to hearing an accent |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
23. It comes and goes according to audience |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 07:13 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Exactly. He puts on the phony TX accent for his campaign rallies. |
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DemBones DemBones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 11:52 PM Response to Reply #23 |
34. Well, he used to chew tobacco and spit in a paper cup at Harvard |
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maddezmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
25. Jim Beam helped him out with it!! |
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teamster633 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 07:35 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Don't forget that fine Peruvian blow... |
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allalone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
30. accent acquired? |
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Robbie67 (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
31. It's actually not difficult to pick up an accent |
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RPM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
32. cuz he's a goddamn goldbricking son of a bitch |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
33. An accent? A nasal draw is not an accent. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-23-04 11:59 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. LOL! Point to you! |
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nonconformist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-04 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
36. Bush lost his first election in Texas |
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pauliedangerously (843 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-04 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
37. HIS ACCENT IS FAKE, JUST LIKE HIS "RANCH" eom |
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proReality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-04 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
38. He has an accent? |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-04 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
39. Can you spell "Dissociative Identity Disorder" n/t |
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eauclaireliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-24-04 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
41. Because the average American |
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