You're not scorning her privately. Politely scorning her, yes, but not privately. She's a public person so public scorn is socially acceptable.

This will play in Peoria if the Peorians are told its playing.

Despite her ludicrous spin that her accents are genuine, I bet we have probably heard them for the last time.

HRC: "I think America is ready for a multilingual president."

Guess she forgot that Bush is fluent in Spanish.

Idiot.

I dissagree with Stephen. She'll slip into the drawl again because she can't help it. It's an ingraned manner of talking down to black voters that she thinks is actually making her more relatable to them. This is exactly the same phenomenon that manifests itself in Al Gore when he sounds like a kindergarden teacher addressing little children, but he thinks he is being clear and precise. It's condescension pure and simple, it's highly irritating, and it exposes these idiots as the sanctimonious garbage that they are. At least, to those on the right hand side of the bell curve.

She cracks me up. But she shouldn't. The most remarkable thing about Clintonian brazenness is how much it is tolerated. Her husband amply demonstrated that. Like Ferris Bueller, he could never go too far.

And the Lion in Winter? While I appreciate its cleverness, it is too clever by half, and I usually end up making fun of it. The line that never fails to ruin it for me and turn it in to a mockfest is when Katharine Hepburns says (in her every so quaverous Long Island lockjaw) "He had a mind like Aristotle, and a body like mortal sin."

After that, it's pretty much open season from me.

Colossus - Hepburn's accent is pure upper-class CT. Lang-Aylanders are even worse.

My Southern accent has flattened from years of living in the Midwest, then flattened further from living overseas and having to make myself understood to native speakers of Russian and Japanese. I call BS on the floating accent. My accent is pure American standard with only hints of VA twang. The only time my accent reverts is when I've spent a few days with my relatives - and it does not revert to the Indiana or Pennsylvania accents I lived with for years - only to the one spoken at home when I was a kid. She's full of it.

So sometimes havig a Southern accent means you are multilingual? And here's silly me, thinking multilingual means being able to speak more than one different language. But hey, when your husband gets to debate what the meaning of the word "is" is, I guess any re-defining is possible.