That horrible voice of the faux Texan president rings in my ear. PM me

[efhmc]

and I'll give you my number and you can hear how a real Texan speaks!!! Okay, I am really, really griped and need other humans to know what a joke that little pipsqueak is!!!

[mlawson]

1. It's not his accent, but he sounds like a child.

And no offense to the children either. But a 'president' is not supposed to sound like one, or THINK like one!!

[efhmc]

3. It's the whole whiney, stupid, childess persona. It drives me into aother

dimension and it is not one of peace.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. My husband, a fifth-generation Texan, says

"He isn't a Texan, he's a carpetbagger!"

I'd agree-but the remark besmirches all carpetbaggers!

[efhmc]

4. Some of the kindest, best people I knew when I grew up in the Dallas

area were yankee carpetbaggers. The big difference was that they came to add to our state and not to rob and rape. I guess they really were not carpetbaggers after all.

[liberalmuse]

5. He sounds a little like the Beav...

but with a thin, whiny, nasally voice. It makes me physically ill, so I have to stick to transcripts.

[efhmc]

6. I liked the Beav. He was a whiney but good hearted. This person is

just whiney.

[Padraig18]

7. My boyfriend...

... is from San Marcos, and he says every time Shrub opens his mouth Tony thinks his head's gonna explode. :p

[efhmc]

10. I am very sorry for your boyfriend because he knows the truth and the

truth will make you CRAZY in the America of today.

[DemoTex]

8. Hit the "mute" button

BTW, efhmc, I am driving back to Dallas tomorrow. I'll be leaving the NC mountains early and heading west by way of Atlanta and I-20. Are you still in Dallas?

I spend a week or so there and then return to the mountains for the fall.

[efhmc]

9. I haven't lived there for about 25 years. Spent my mommy years in

Houston (Which I swore I would hate. It was my destiny as a Dallasite, but I came to love it.) I now live in a small Texas town and spend my time between here and our ranch in McCulloch County. I have plenty of cute grownup nieces and nephews in that area if you need company. Well now that I think about it, most of them have moved to Austin.) Wish I could be around some mountains. While I was driving back in the dark last night from the ranch, I pretended that the darkness around me were mountains. Maybe I do need a long rest.

[DemoTex]

11. I lived in Houston over 20 years ago. Worked for Ken Lay pre-Enron

I loved Houston. Lived in Montrose. Great area and great people. We live on the fringe of Highland Park in Dallas. GAG! Thank God for the mountain house (more or less full time for me).

On edit: One of the best things about Dallas, as I just told my dogs Sirius and Nick-the-Quick, is the K-9 Commissary on Greenville Avenue. We will be there on Saturday stocking up and attempting shoplifting (bad dog!).

[efhmc]

12. I LOVE Houston and am headed there this weekend. Many of my friends

and neighbors worked for Enron when it was a good solid company that you could rely on to be true to you as an employee. I wonder about many of those folks now that their retirement has been blown to hell in a handbasket (as my Mom used to say). One of my cousins is a big deal oil and gas attorney there and we had some intersting converstion about Ken during our last visit. It's funny but in many ways I feel almost closed in by living here all of my life. I swear I know someone who know someone who knows everyone here. If we chatted long enough, I bet I could find someone who knew you in Houston or elsewhere.

[DemoTex]

14. Ken Lay at Transco Energy Co.

Remember the Transco Tower at the Galleria? Darth Vader? That's where we were. Or that's where they were. I was at Houston Intercontinental Airport at the palatial Transco hangar. I flew the king-maker around in Lockheed Jetstars and Learjet 55s. I've got enough stories on Ken Lay and friends to get me suicided many times over.

[efhmc]

13. Wanted to add that the church I grew up in and was married in is in

Highland Park (Christ Lutheran on Lover's Lane). There is a stained glass window there in my Mom's honor. We lived in Richardson (actually Buckingham on 3 acres so we could have horses.)and all 5 of us graduated from there.

[TEXASYANKEE]

18. Buckingham

Have you visited Buckingham lately? You probably wouldn't recognize it. They're a "wet" area and it's all liquor stores. 'Course I'm not complaining, because the Sigel store is convenient for me (I live in dry Rowlett)! Liquor stores and a driving range, that's Buckingham nowadays.

[efhmc]

19. I actually live on Willingham and we still own the house and property.

Someone leases it. A very complicated earlier bush style mess but we still own the property. It was a fun place to grow up. A town with only 2 streets and lots of animals and our own water district and within a spit of Dallas with good schools and a great taxbase.

[cliss]

15. Let's hope Bush is not considered

a "spokesman" for Texas. Especially for foreign countries.

I agree, the voice, the intonation, the "twang" all says 'immature'. I get homicidal when I heard those "s's", that are almost a lisp. The minute his voice comes on in my radio (I don't watch TV - thank goodness), I quickly switch stations. I can't listen to the man.

[efhmc]

16. Good choice. At least here people know the difference. I think of the

rich deep voices of my uncles, friends and many old time Texans and I long for those types of characters. Well, we have to deal with what we've got.

[Aristus]

17. I was born and raised in Texas, and in all my years

I never heard an accent like the one he affects. It's gotta be some mish-mash of Texas, Connecticut and Maine, filtered through one of the dimmest, poorly constructed brains in the history of mankind.

[efhmc]

20. An absoltely PERFECT description. My mother used to accuse my father,

who built bridges, of talking good old boy whenever he was doing business, but I can tell you it was still real Texan.

[VOX]

21. My dad was born in Hubbard, TX, and spent 31 years in West TX...

I *know* the real deal, I've heard it all my life.

What comes out of *'s mouth is nothing more than the burps, belches and spittle of a carpetbagging poseur. There is not one thing genuine about that man, except his lack of intellectual curiosity.

[efhmc]

22. I knew every Texan that knows how real men in Texas speak would

respond to this. Unfortunately his whiney nasal drivel is caught in my head and although I never listen to him any more, just the merest sight brings up that voice. Yikes, it make me coo-coo.