President Obama conjugates his verbs

By GottaLaff

Via Greg Sargent:

Mike Allen flags a fascinating moment from David Remnick’s new Obama book, in which Obama explains why he had an easier time than the previous generation’s African American pols in calibrating his “dialect” for different audiences:

“The fact that I conjugate my verbs and speak in a typical Midwestern newscaster’s voice — there’s no doubt that this helps ease communication between myself and white audiences. And there’s no doubt that when I’m with a black audience I slip into a slightly different dialect. But the point is, I don’t feel the need to speak a certain way in front of a black audience. There’s a level of self-consciousness about these issues the previous generation had to negotiate that I don’t feel I have to.”

Um, about that phony George Bush twangy cowboy act-- that was just fine with the GOP. They bought into the brush clearing, the strutting around in flight suits, "mission accomplished"... but conjugate verbs?

Verbs??

That's positively criminal.