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To: Dale Baker who wrote (28425)	9/9/2006 9:14:52 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541025

I did not advocate the election of Perot or Dole. I was trying to give an illustration of how the pointy headed liberals labeled them because they lacked a perfected speaking ability which they implied was necessary to be a great leader. There is an endless list of highly successful people in this country, in fact world wide, who are not the greatest of speakers. Not everyone can be a orator of the Winston Churchill caliber. Weeding out? Isn't that what the primary and general elections are all about?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (28425)	9/10/2006 1:25:49 AM
From: freelyhovering	Respond to of 541025

I finally got around to watching the "Control Room", the documentary about Al Jazeera during the early days of the Iraq war. It is quite compelling and made me feel ashamed to be part of what we did in Iraq. They should show it tomorrow night instead of the ABC mess.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (28425)	9/10/2006 3:01:29 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541025

Speaking, after looks, is one of the first ways we judge people. Although we aren't exactly like the UK in having a class system based on accents, there are still important advantages to speaking with the kind of accent a newscaster has, and with some semblance of clarity. That's our "lingua franca". And having people respect you, and take you seriously, depends a lot on your accent and clarity. That's just the way it is- that's what we should tell kids who don't want to drop the "black English" or the Spanglish, and that's what we ought to tell presidents who can't use words correctly, and who stumble over simple sentences and sayings.