1113 days, 0 hours, 24 minutes since Bush is out of office!.
Republicans
The Obama Inauguration...Dawn of a new day.
You are not living under a rock...(or you wouldn't be here on my site reading this.)...so I don't have to state the obvious fact that Barack Obama is being sworn in today as our nations 44th President.
It's not just that he is our nations first Black President that makes the occasion so momentous.
What is momentous is that our nation ELECTED our first black President.
It has OH so much more to say about us as a nation than it does about Barack Obama.
For the last 2 or 3 campaign cycles, my family has gotten involved with knocking on doors, making phone calls, manning computers, and producing media aimed at getting people to the polls and inspiring people into the corner of the candidate we supported.
The Voice Of Sarah Palin
OK. This post is going to be about sound.
More specifically, I would like to address the SOUND of Sarah Palin's voice.
For the sake of full disclosure I have to admit something to you: I have not been able to watch to completion, nor desire any longer to finish watching the movie "Fargo" because the accent of the main characters voices drives me absolutely INSANE!
The gentle, and fabulous dispositions of the people from the Dakotas aside...I'm afraid that my problem with the accent might go back to my childhood, where I had a teacher in 5th and 6th grade (One teacher...small school...two grades...all of us together in the same room for both years) named Mrs. Bowen.
Mrs. Bowen did not WASH the blackboards...she WARSHED them. She didn't drive a car she drove a CAAAHR. Hockey wasn't Hockey it was HAAHWKY.
She did NOT proclaim: "I want y'all to be quiet and listen to me while I read" (as any good southerner would)
Mrs Bowen proclaimed things like "IWanchAH t'AHL beQUITE and listen t'ME whiile iREEEED)
It was an excruciating two years, so my aversion to the accent, I am willing to admit, might simply be a psychological one.
