# Dems love saying "Jefferson Beauregard Sessions" as much as Pubs loved saying "Barack Hussein Obama" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236 "2017-03-02T20:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/1 "2017-03-02T20:53:13Z")
I think it’s the “Beauregard” that makes it special. They can’t get enough of it! > [@](#): > > Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III ensures Justice Department won’t investigate Russia connection > [@](#): > > But 31 years ago, all the way back in 1986, Coretta Scott King warned this nation about the questionable character of a man named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III. > [@](#): > > Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, who has been the U.S. Attorney General for only a few weeks, may find himself out of a job at the rate he’s going. But unemployment could be the least of his worries, in light of reports that he lied under oath during his confirmation hearing. Trump’s top law enforcer, who plans to cause so much trouble to black people, Muslims, immigrants and others, now finds himself in his own deep trouble. > [@](#): > > Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III should frighten you. And now that Sessions is the first line of defense against a president whose business conflicts and ties to Russia are under investigation, it’s time to be clear about the man Republicans have chosen as the nation’s chief law enforcement official. It’s time to be clear about who Sessions will fight for, and whom he will fight against, in the years to come ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/2 "2017-03-02T20:55:27Z")
I agree that they’re both almost too good to be true. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/3 "2017-03-02T20:55:29Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I think it’s the “Beauregard” that makes it special. They can’t get enough of it! I bet they can. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/4 "2017-03-02T21:03:02Z")
They just love the memory of the gallant Little Napoleon. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/5 "2017-03-02T21:06:30Z")
Highlight the objectionable part of someone’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/6 "2017-03-02T21:07:27Z")
I’m offended by the phrase “all the way back in 1986”. It weren’t long ago at all. Now get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/7 "2017-03-02T21:41:47Z")
Is there a more Southern sounding name? Beauregard…it just falls off your tongue. It’s American as you can get - the very sounds inspire dreams of peaches, pecans, and sweet tea on the porch on a warm summer eve, a cool breeze stealing away all your anxiety and stress. Why, I can just imagine lifting a bell to summon a servant to refresh my libation and rub my back as I listen to the crickets begin their nightly mating ritual. Is there a warmongering, genocidal dictator named Beauregard somewhere, that Democrats are trying to draw a parallel with? Unrelated, but I hear Beauregard in Frank Underwood’s voice in my head, every flippin time. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/8 "2017-03-02T21:48:34Z")
For some reason I always associate the name Beauregard with Foghorn Leghorn. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/9 "2017-03-02T21:50:42Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Is there a warmongering, genocidal dictator named Beauregard somewhere, that Democrats are trying to draw a parallel with? I think his “Jefferson” is more Jefferson Davis than Thomas Jefferson. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/10 "2017-03-02T22:08:09Z")
Absolutely zero Jefferson Airplane. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/11 "2017-03-02T22:23:33Z")
Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/12 "2017-03-02T22:28:59Z")
I posted this in another thread: > [@me](#): > > I never knew Sessions’s full name. May I just say that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is almost the most Southern name possible? He could maybe score more Southern points by changing his last name to Compson or Sartoris, or maybe by showing up to his (hopefully forthcoming) Senate grilling wearing a linen suit and demanding to be called Colonel. He lives in a big white house with tall columns at the end of a path flanked by cypress trees, doesn’t he? I always think of Jefferson Davis and PGT Beauregard. No way for me to know if that’s where the name came from, of course. But let’s see… Jeff Sessions III was born in 1946. Maybe Jeff Sessions II was born in the late 1910s, early 1920s. And the original Jeff Sessions maybe just before the turn of the century. Southern man, born in the 19th century. Sure, Jefferson and Beauregard _could_ have been references to, I dunno, two kindly uncles or something. But if I were to bet… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/13 "2017-03-02T22:54:11Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > For some reason I always associate the name Beauregard with Foghorn Leghorn. Nah, it’s that southern colonel type, when the cartoon featured the brown dog who was hustling to get a new master. The southern colonel had a couple of lines like “ah, magnolias!” He would call his big white dog with a loud " **BEAUREGARD! Come heah, Boy!!!"** ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/14 "2017-03-02T22:56:52Z")
This reminds me of George Herbert Walker Bush - that extra middle name helped remind everyone what a bluebood elder Bush was. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/15 "2017-03-02T23:46:30Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > For some reason I always associate the name Beauregard with Foghorn Leghorn. The first thing I think of is a character from the film Auntie Mame. The character was called Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/16 "2017-03-02T23:59:00Z")
Jeff Sessions sounds like a radio DJ. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III sounds like a plantation owner. It is good for framing the debate. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/17 "2017-03-03T00:10:00Z")
_**[Beauregard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._T._Beauregard)** also had a slave from Louisiana that would wax his mustache every day._ Those were spacious days. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/18 "2017-03-03T02:15:50Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Is there a more Southern sounding name? Beauregard…it just falls off your tongue. It’s American as you can get - the very sounds inspire dreams of peaches, pecans, and sweet tea on the porch on a warm summer eve, a cool breeze stealing away all your anxiety and stress. Why, I can just imagine lifting a bell to summon a servant to refresh my libation and rub my back as I listen to the crickets begin their nightly mating ritual. > > Is there a warmongering, genocidal dictator named Beauregard somewhere, that Democrats are trying to draw a parallel with? > > Unrelated, but I hear Beauregard in Frank Underwood’s voice in my head, every flippin time. In the novel and movie _Auntie Mame_, the quintessential southern gentleman was named Beauregard Jackson Picket Burnside. “Bo” for short. ETA: Beaten to the punch by Dewey Finn. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/19 "2017-03-03T02:19:26Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Nah, it’s that southern colonel type, when the cartoon featured the brown dog who was hustling to get a new master. The southern colonel had a couple of lines like “ah, magnolias!” > > He would call his big white dog with a loud " **BEAUREGARD! Come heah, Boy!!!"** I believe that dog was named, Belvedere. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/20 "2017-03-03T02:24:17Z")
Since we’re now naming Beauregards: that’s Scarlett O’Hara’s son’s name. Named after the Confederate general, of course. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236.md?page=2)