MSNBC: Obama's doing well with his post-debate speech, BUT...

[Bicoastal]

Why didn't THIS Obama show up at the debates?

[ecstatic]

1. and what is this new SC accent all about? nt

[FrenchieCat]

9. Who gives a shit about accents except for the pundits?

Black folks often speak with varied degrees of Southern accents depending who we are talking to......even us here in the North.

[LSK]

2. they all speak differently in debates vs pep rallies

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. He was also using a black southern accent. Where does that come from with his

background..........

[Connie_Corleone]

8. Spend a few hours in South Carolina and you'll talk just like them too.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Hanging out with the homies......Same ones he got in trouble with in his teens.....

You don't think that there are Black folks in Hawaii and Kansas?

Please know that I was born in France, and as a mixed race Black person who emmigrated to the U.S. in my teens, I also get a southern accent everynow and then......when I'm talking to "my folks".....It's a Black thang, and it isn't confined to Southern Black Folks in these Southern United States.

[Connie_Corleone]

3. It's a different format.

And for the person asking about the southern accent. Some people, like myself, get a southern accent when we're talking to southerners. It happens automatically with me.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. same here! last time I was in Paris, I couldn't help talking about

that mooonkey we have for a president.

[Bicoastal]

13. That "mehnkey"? LOL

What, did you start channeling Inspector Clousseau?

[Gabi Hayes]

14. c'est vrai! mehnkey is much more good!

does your dahg baht?

[jefferson_dem]

4. Same guy...different format. He does seem a bit more comfortable on the stump

than behind a podium.

...not surprising, given his character and experience, and not to worry. He'll grow as a candidate.

[Colobo]

5. He did show up

Debates are one thing, and rallies are another thing.

[sandnsea]

7. Bush won on the stump

Something to think about as we go forward.

[originalpckelly]

12. I like Southern fried Obama, where was he at the debates?

He looks to have had a 1.5 hour Kerryitis infection.

[Colobo]

15. I like Barack Obama, and he did very well in the debate.

[FrenchieCat]

16. I thought he did well too!

There were others that didn't fare so well.....

[illinoisprogressive]

17. Obama won the debates. He won the polling by the people