# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/21 "2017-03-03T02:27:40Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > I believe that dog was named, Belvedere. That you know this off the top of your head is somehow unsettling. [Dog Gone South](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/dog-gone-south/82940403/) 2:00 in ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/22 "2017-03-03T02:39:13Z")
Am I the only person who thinks of Violet Beauregard, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? (Also, the fact that the name is has a french origin onlu just dawned on me :smack: ) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/23 "2017-03-03T02:52:45Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > Am I the only person who thinks of Violet Beauregard, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? > > (Also, the fact that the name is has a french origin onlu just dawned on me :smack: ) I was just about to post the same. (Though her name is apparently spelled with an “e” at the end.) Self-centered gum-gobbling blueberry bitch. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/24 "2017-03-03T06:06:02Z")
> [@astro](#): > > That you know this off the top of your head is somehow unsettling. > > [Dog Gone South](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/dog-gone-south/82940403/) > > 2:00 in The funny thing is,“Beauregard” was my first thought about the dog’s name, too, but I almost immediately realized it was “Belvedere”. But then, I am a scholar of Bugs Bunny and I possess, in addition to all the pertinent media, several baseball caps and T-shirts bearing likenesses of some of the principal characters. I try to wear them to weddings and other formal occasions, but have never been allowed to. Got ninja’d on the correction, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/25 "2017-03-03T06:18:44Z")
I like the man’s name. I definitely like _nothing_ else about our new AG but his name does have some swagger. Its unfortunate I had to watch him in high-definition, however. JBS has some made-for-radio skin. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/26 "2017-03-03T06:44:39Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I posted this in another thread: > > > [@](#): > > > > 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? Worse. [He lives in a McMansion](http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/jeff-sessions-house/). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/27 "2017-03-03T11:19:54Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > I believe that dog was named, Belvedere. AAAAaAHHhHhHHhHhGGgGgGg! :smack::smack::smack::smack: I just betrayed my childhood. Thanks for the correction and sorry it was necessary. :smack: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/28 "2017-03-03T11:25:04Z")
Geeky attempt at reclaiming my childhood: Okay in the **Star Trek** TOS episode where Kirk splits into Good and Bad Kirk? Sulu has a plant that I think reacts to Bad Kirk or something. I _think_ that plant is named Beauregard. ::Googles “Sulu’s Plant Beauregard”:: Sonuvagun. Redeemed: [Beauregard | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Beauregard) ETA: sorry for this hijack. Carry on. Although if we can come up with a connection between the AG and the Star Trek plant, that would be funny. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/29 "2017-03-03T12:26:04Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Since we’re now naming Beauregards: that’s Scarlett O’Hara’s son’s name. Named after the Confederate general, of course. Scarlett’s son was Wade Hampton, named after a [slightly less famous Confederate officer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Hampton_III). Beauregard, aka Beau, was Ashley’s and Melanie’s son–the one she nearly died giving birth to during the Siege of Atlanta. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/30 "2017-03-03T13:15:23Z")
It _is_ kind of fun to says “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III”, but OTOH I’ve yet to see anyone writing it “Jefferson BEAUREGARD Sessions III”. Plus I doubt it’ll have the same longevity as the “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” thing even if Sessions remains on the scene. So I’d quibble with the “as much” point. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/31 "2017-03-03T13:27:40Z")
Never mind the rest, ‘Beauregard’, is fun to say all on it’s own! ‘The third!’, is just icing on the cake. And I agree is hard not to hear it in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn whenever I read it! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/32 "2017-03-03T13:30:39Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > I believe that dog was named, Belvedere. > [@astro](#): > > That you know this off the top of your head is somehow unsettling. > > [Dog Gone South](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/dog-gone-south/82940403/) > > 2:00 in I’m reminded of that cartoon every time I watch “Mr. Belvedere.” And my phone auto-corrected “Mr. Belvedere” into “Mr. Velveeta,” just like Heather’s friend, Angela. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Falchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Falchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falchion)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/33 "2017-03-03T14:10:56Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I posted this in another thread: > > 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… Well, according to [this](http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/senators/sessions.htm), Jefferson Beauregard Sessions I was born around April 13, 1861. So right at the same time as the Battle of Fort Sumter. So PGT Beauregard seems likely (one assumes he would have been in the newspapers at that time). Who the Jefferson is seems more speculative. Jefferson Davis was made president of the CSA in February 1861. Thomas Jefferson has a certain lasting fame. But, if you were picking names out of the newspaper, the former seems more likely. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/34 "2017-03-03T14:29:45Z")
He comes with his own Southern boy quotes: Spoken to a black lawyer: “_ **Be careful what you say to white folks, boy.** _” He’s on record as calling the “_ **NAACP an un-American organization** _.” While charged with investigating the brutal Klan murder of a black man, he said “_**I thought those boys [the Ku Klux Klan] were OK until I learned they smoked pot.**_” He said a white civil rights attorney was “_ **either a traitor to his race or a disgrace to his race** _.” Great guy, this J. Beauregard the Third. > [@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. Do his friends call him “Jeffie Bo” ? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/35 "2017-03-03T15:09:07Z")
Actually, I think there is a more sinister reason. The Barack Hussein Obama thing was clearly a way to attempt linking him to Saddam Hussein, or his stupidly debated Muslim-ness, or how non-white/Christian he was. The Jefferson Beauregard Sessions thing seems to attempt to link him to the racist South, as conjured here by **Chisquirrel**. ---
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This is the first I’ve heard of it but, judging from responses in this thread, I can accept that I’m just behind the times. Where are the quotes in the OP from? ---
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The Muppet named Beauregard was hilarious in _The Great Muppet Caper_ as a taxi driver. “What’s your room number?” “Gee, I don’t know… we’re on the second floor.” “Oh, I’m sorry. I can only take you as far as the lobby!” _CRASH_ ---
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> [@Falchion](#): > > Well, according to [this](http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/senators/sessions.htm), Jefferson Beauregard Sessions I was born around April 13, 1861. So right at the same time as the Battle of Fort Sumter. So PGT Beauregard seems likely (one assumes he would have been in the newspapers at that time). > > Who the Jefferson is seems more speculative. Jefferson Davis was made president of the CSA in February 1861. Thomas Jefferson has a certain lasting fame. But, if you were picking names out of the newspaper, the former seems more likely. Interesting. Thanks for that link. Assuming it’s accurate, the original JBS has just turned 52 when JBS Jr was born. I thought I was nuts for becoming a parent at 38 and having another at 40! ---
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> [@snowthx](#): > > The Jefferson Beauregard Sessions thing seems to attempt to link him to the racist South, as conjured here by **Chisquirrel**. [If the shoe fits…](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-racist-remarks_us_582cd73ae4b099512f80c0c2) ---
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> [@cochrane](#): > > I’m reminded of that cartoon every time I watch “Mr. Belvedere.” For what it’s worth, I’m reminded that RICK & MORTY did an episode with a butler who seemed strikingly similar to Mr. Belvedere – named, y’know, “Mr. Beauregard”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236.md?page=1) [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=3)