Bush as rugged manly man-was too sophisticated, then this book’s for you. While it may lack new political insights, Huckabee’s book offers a framework for analyzing the candidates’ speaking style, says Carmen Fought, a Pitzer College linguistics professor.

If you thought the broad theme of the 2004 election-John Kerry as elite fancypants, George W. Mike Huckabee, who is considering running for president again, has a new-ish campaign book called God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy in which he divides America into two groups: the “Bubbles,” who are haute-lettuce-eating college professors in cities on the coasts, and the “Bubbas,” who are the real Americans. Of course, he went on to sign landmark civil rights laws. Lemme show mah scar.' Johnson had a reputation as crude and uncultured. In frustration, Bruce-as-Johnson yelps, 'I cain't hep it! I cain't say it!. 'It took him six months to learn how to say negro.' He imagines handlers trying to teach Johnson to say “negro,” but the sound of the n-word keeps slipping through. 'They didn't let him talk for the first six months,' Bruce says. Take, for example, Lenny Bruce’s early 1960s imitation of Lyndon Johnson. It's also because Clinton has been in the public eye for far longer. The conventional wisdom about Clinton's character has fully matured, but it's still forming for her potential Republican competitors, like a cicada grub nestled underground. Despite our collective sexist tendencies, the Republican candidates' voices will eventually get some attention.Ī politician's voice shapes how we see him. Maybe you don’t know what Ted Cruz sounds like, except that he sounds like a jerk. Why? In part it's because women’s voices are scrutinized more. like a guy, maybe? It's probably hard for you to recall distinguishing features about most of the Republican candidates.

It’s so-wait, what does it sound like again? He sounds just. Or inauthentic-that phony Southern accent! Those flat Midwestern vowels! Whatever it is, her voice is burned into your brain.

You know Hillary Clinton’s voice, right? I mean, you know it.

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