Why doesn't JEB! have an accent like his brother?

[fishnfla]

Been listening to our guv'ner taking care of hurricane business and wondering, he doesn't even have a trace of a southern accent, where did his brother pick up his , the best lil' whorehouse in Texas?

Does Neil?

[htuttle]

1. Because George's accent is fake

He didn't have it in 1988 when his poppy ran for President.

[skooooo]

2. It's fake of course..but..

...we need something snazzier than that to get it in the media...

[Vickers]

4. Fake?!?!?! Why, it's as real as that nice, clean cowboy hat he wears...

...at his RANCH!

I bet he is the only Texan that has a scrub brush ranch. That's the only thing I've ever seen him harvesting there!

:crazy:

[TeeYiYi]

18. Scrub brush ranch . . .

. . . that's funny and so true. Every single time that I've seen him in a photo or video op 'working' on his 'ranch' he had a rake or pitchfork? in one hand taking an occasional stab at some scrub brush or an errant tumbleweed. Do they have any animals out there besides the twins? Does Pickles have a vegetable garden?

Jeb doesn't have a hick accent because he's the poseur from Florida, not the poseur from Texas. Put him to work on 'the ranch' for awhile and see how quickly Poppy nudges him to pick up the script and fall into character with a 10, er 15 . . . no — a 20 gallon hat.

TYY

[htuttle]

7. Actually, just go back and look at the '88 campaign footage

Bush Jr. clearly has a New England accent. Video footage should be snazzy enough -- if we owned a television network, that is.

But freedom of the press only extends to those who own a press, as they say.

[Warpy]

8. Yes and no

I think Chicken George probably clung to the little Texas he'd picked up as a young child as a way of rebelling against the prep school/Ivy League life track he was so obviously unsuited for. I think it's a reflection of his early rejection of his Connecticut roots.

Remember, this is the guy who chewed tobacco in Harvard B-school. If that isn't rebellion, what is?

He just found a way that sort of intentional idiocy would work for him, among the faithful in the wingnut churches across rural America. Just as he felt unequal to the life task his family had set out for him, most of them feel unequal to coping with city sophisticates. In a way, he may actually be one of their own.

Just a thought.

[izzie]

3. Bush really think he is a cowboy?

He does keep the tent show going. Guess his IQ is higher than you people thought. It all works with so many of the people who wish to think like him.

[skooooo]

5. He's a Cocaine Cowboy (from Crawford)...

....someone ought to write a song.

[flordehinojos]

10. a friend sent me this in an e-mail forward: it is sung to the tune of

Sung to the tune of

"The Beverly Hillbillies"


Come and listen to my story 'bout a boy named Bush.

His IQ was zero and his head was up his tush.

He drank like a fish while he drove all about.

But it didn't really matter 'cuz his daddy bailed him out.

DUI, that is.

Criminal record.

Cover-up.


Well, the first thing you know little Georgie goes to Yale.

He can't spell his name but they never let him fail.

He spends all his time hangin' out with student folk.

And that's when he learns how to snort a line of coke.

Blow, that is.

White gold.

Nose candy.


The next thing you know there's a war in Vietnam.

Kin folks say, "George, stay at home with Mom.

"Let the common people go to get maimed and scarred.

We'll buy you a spot in the Texas Air Guard.

Cushy, that is.

Country clubs.

Nose candy.


Twenty years later George gets a little bored.

He trades in the booze, says that Jesus is his Lord.

He says, "Now the White House is where I ough! ta be."

So he calls his daddy's friends and they call the GOP.

Gun owners, that is.

Falwell.

Jesse Helms.


Come November 7, the elections runnin' late.

Kin folks say, "Jeb, give the boy your state!"

"Don't let those colored folks get into the polls.

"So they put up barricades so they couldn't punch their holes.

Chads, that is.

Duval County.

Miami-Dade.


Before the votes are counted five Supremes step on in.

They tell all the voters "Hey, we want George to win."

"Stop counting votes!" is their solemn invocation.

And that's how George finally goes and gets his coronation.

Rigged, that is.

Illegitimate.

No moral authority.


Y'all come back to vote now. Ya hear?


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[greekspeak]

19. Bravissimo!

Very clever indeed! :yourock:

[readmylips]

6. Jeb was a real student and Georgie a cheerleader...

Georgie is the only Bush boy with that uneducated talk...it is not an accent.

Georgie went through school and not to school...(old words from my Mom). Georgie never learned the real foundation of schooling; reading, writing and arithmetic. He was the family's black sheet per his mom, and never did well in school, never was interested in the world around him. Georgie may have had a learning disability, which still shows when he's trying to freely compose a sentence. When Georgie spits out rhetoric he has memorized, he's good.

Worse part of his life; he was named after his Father George Bush, big shoes to fill, something he hated while growing up until he discovered his name would take him places...big places like to the White House.

The Presidency was meant for Jeb, but Georgie jumped the gun. The bush idiot was the puppet the ultra-misguided conservatives and religious nut were praying for...and they got Georgie. Jeb would have been a much better, no slogan, down to earth, educated president. Far better than his father.

[fishnfla]

12. JEB!'s been doing pretty good

with this hurricane business, got to give him some respect, even though he tried to put us out of business a few years back.

Then again, anyone would be a much better president than his fool of a brother.....

[drumwolf]

13. From what I understand......

Jeb has always been considered to be the smart Bush sibling and W has always been the fuckup of the family.

[TexasProgresive]

9. Dumbya's accent is a construct

It is aa artificial as his born again experience. I've live in Texas most of my life and I have never heard anyone but him speak like that. He should've watched and listened more to JR on Dallas to get something a bit more authentic. That is is put on may be the reason for all his verbal gaffes. His tiny brain has trouble doing 2 things at once.

[Catt03]

11. He never learned to speak properly?

Too busy trying overcome his insecurities and his rage against his Father for not liking him and against his mother for bullying him.

Texas accepted him and his bravado. He finally found a home.

[teamster633]

14. I just heard a clip of a debate he had with Ann Richards...

...when he ran for governor in Texas. No accent and he spoke in full sentences using correct grammatical constructions. Apparently he sees some advantage in acting and sounding like a fool. Must come easily to him: it all sounds so genuine.

[coreystone]

15. I am still attempting to figure out why George always walks....

as though he just got off a really "wide saddle" and still has his "chaps" on!:)

:kick:

[Andy_Stephenson]

16. Victor Ashe will have an answer for that...

I am sure.

[UdoKier]

17. Not only that, when Jeb speaks Spanish...

...it actually sounds like Spanish.

Ever heard Dumbya?

"Bienvenidos a (emphasisesd stupidly for effect) LA CASA BLANCA!"

[autorank]

20. Very disturbing!!! Cynic or Crazy?

This has always concerned me about Bush. I was surprised that Dr. Frank didn't jump right in his book on *'s mental health.

He did invent the accent, without a doubt. If he uses just in public, we've got a very cynical person exploiting the 'common folk.' If, on the other hand, he uses it at all times and really believes it...holy shit, we're screwed!