It Wasn't A Mock Southern Accent, It Was A Mock Black Accent

These folks don't even need to go there. The one thing that really gets under my skin during election seasons is when most white candidates go to black churches and want to play Marting Luther King. Most of them suddenly change their speech pattern to try to connect with black audiences and plug into the call and response cultural idiosyncrasy. Bill Clinton did it. Al Gore did it. They all do it.

New York Senator Hillary Clinton felt so insecure about her trip to the American south this weekend that she dusted off hubby Bill Clinton and dragged the former president along for some very important support. While it seems fairly obvious that any Hillary strategy in a 2008 general election will write off the south, she seems quite concerned about Barack Obama and his recent surge.

Even though it is seriously early, Clinton's numbers with Democrat voters are falling and Obama is closing the gap. Newsbusters reports that Andrea Mitchell, while narrating the segment on the political duel between Obama and Hillary in Selma, Alabama this weekend portrayed Obama as having authentic appeal, while picturing Hillary resorting to heavy-handed political tactics.

Obama did the exact same thing. I heard him on NPR where he admitted that he is more relaxed and does change the way he addresses the audience. While many want to claim he is not really black, he's chosen a life and a wife that have embraced him and included him in the count. The bottom line is that I cannot believe people are calling Hillary on it when I cannot even go to work and not have some white person coming up to me and wanting to lapse into some "black slang" that they've never heard me speak. Hillary was trying to be down just like the rest of her counterparts.