“I Chose My Friends Carefully”
Posted by Meg | Posted in Background, Friends & Allies, Must See, Obama, Quotes, Socialism, Videos | Posted on 29-10-2008
Tags: Barack Obama, communism, Dreams of My Father, marxism, Quotes, Socialism, Videos, YouTube
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How many times will he need to say “redistribute wealth” and “Marxist” before we actually realize the truth behind the myth he has created around himself?
Obama’s “blackness” is coming out.
I saw a show on the Discovery Channel about how people communicate, particularly looking at body language. Among other things, it examined the speaking styles of Obama and McCain. Ironically, it avoided any analysis of body language with the candidates and focused on their voices. As I pointed out in my blog, Obama has a nasty “tell” of stuttering whenever he is lying. I was hoping they would catch him in this, but they had no balls for that fight.
The researchers talked about how Obama’s cadence and emphasis was patterned on the model of black preachers such as Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson. I would describe it as a sing-songy sort of blues speak with moments of firey, rising rhetoric building into a crescendo. One common aspect is their exaggerated annunciation of certain consonants, schwaing for others, and truncation of word endings, especially “in’” instead of “ing”.
In two speeches on Friday, Obama was relaxed enough to drop free from his carefully controlled “white” speech and fell into the old meme of black preachers. In particular, it struck me as odd the way he pronounced “policies” differently than he had done in the past.
Instead of saying POL-la-seez it was pol-a-SEEES. He did it more than once on the same day.
When the mouth is disconnected from deliberate brain functions, we often hear the words of truth. That’s why Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment came out – he was off his script.
I predict that we will hear more and more of Obama’s “blackness” (as his wife would put it) as time goes by. We’ll also see him move far to the left of the median voter.
POW – I’ve noticed *exactly* the same thing! The way he speaks changes completely depending on the race of his audience. But not only that, the longer he speaks in his Preacher Voice, the deeper and deeper he gets into a southern accent. This really, really bothers me. That man has NEVER lived in the South, not once! Yet we’re supposed to believe he has a southern accent? Mmhmm. Sorry, but I was born in the deep South, spent the first ten years of my life in the deep South, I used to have a thick southern accent (until my brothers forced it out of me after we moved to Arizona.) I know what it’s like to have that accent, and if you really have one, you can’t switch it on and off that easy. And besides, it takes years to develop a natural one, years and years and years. He just decides to turn it on whenever it suits him, yet he has no connection whatsoever to the South. That alone should be absolute evidence that he’s been seriously coached in how to speak.
Well, that, and the fact that if you watch videos of him from more than four or five years ago, he sounds completely different. In that infamous “I won’t be qualified in four years to run for the Presidency” video, he doesn’t sound the least bit like he does now. I swear, David Axelrod hired somebody to teach that man how to manipulate people through speech, cause it’s showing.