# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/41 "2017-03-03T17:26:18Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > 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”. At least it’s not just me! ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/42 "2017-03-03T18:35:19Z")
I’ve got my own opinions of the side of the American Civil War that General Beauregard sided with, but I’ll be honest, his name was not one of his flaws. If I had “Beauregard” for a middle name, you bet your last penny I’d insist on it being included on my calling cards. I chalk it up there with folks referring to Hillary Clinton as “Killary”, there’s just no alternate universe where that sounds like an insult. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/43 "2017-03-03T19:29:29Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > 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! President John Tyler, born 1790, has grandchildren who are still alive. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/44 "2017-03-03T20:47:03Z")
For an individual whose middle names roughly translates to “beautiful look”, he ain’t too purty. ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/45 "2017-03-04T12:45:18Z")
“Beauregard”, really? Sometimes you just can’t make it up. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/46 "2017-03-04T19:45:45Z")
I also liked saying William Jefferson Clinton. Something about a middle name like that is fun to say. Seeing as even Southeners say it, I don’t think it’s the same thing as Barrack Hussein Obama. The point of that was to imply he was Muslim. He isn’t. Using “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions” makes him sound like he’s from the South, and he is. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/47 "2017-03-05T13:19:33Z")
[QUOTE=thread title] Dems love saying “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions” as much as Pubs loved saying “Barack Hussein Obama” [/QUOTE] Yes, Sessions’ full name has been used a lot in the past several days. _But it’s just been several days._ AFAICT, the wingnuts _never_ got tired of saying “Barack Hussein Obama.” So if we libruls are still saying/spelling out Sessions’ full name eight years from now, you’ll have no argument from me. We’re less than 1% of the way there, though. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/48 "2017-03-06T05:04:43Z")
Well I haven’t been calling him Jefferson Beauregard Sessions _yet_. But I have to say it certainly does have a nice ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/49 "2017-03-06T05:08:57Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Well I haven’t been calling him Jefferson Beauregard Sessions _yet_. But I have to say it certainly does have a nice ring to it. Ahem. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions _the Third_. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/50 "2017-03-06T15:08:30Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > 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**. Right. The difference is that Barack H. Obama is neither Muslim nor culturally Arabic in any way. Whereas Jeff B. Sessions _is_ an unreconstructed Southern Klan-lover. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/51 "2017-03-06T18:34:00Z")
> [@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. The only way to make this name more Southern is to nickname Jeff Sessions “Roscoe” or “Bubba”. > [@](#): > > Is there a warmongering, genocidal dictator named Beauregard somewhere, that Democrats are trying to draw a parallel with? Nah, it’s just fun to say Jefferson Beauregard Sessions in a heavy Southern accent. Since I grew up down south and have a (now mostly hidden) Southern accent, I always pull out the heavy accent for Sessions’ name. It amuses the hell out of the Massachusetts liberals. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/52 "2017-03-06T20:36:31Z")
I have always enjoyed an equally southern sounding name of a public figure, however I suspect his ancestry is from a different page of the social registry. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you [Jim Bob Cooter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bob_Cooter). ---
**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 6, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/53 "2017-03-06T21:40:24Z")
_Flowers? For me? [I do declare Mr Beauregard!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrarmvKHimc) You are my heeeeero…Was I…talking in my sleep?_ This is my imagined **GrumpyBunny** heavy southern accent. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/54 "2017-03-06T22:22:51Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > AThe Jefferson Beauregard Sessions thing seems to attempt to link him to the racist South, as conjured here by **Chisquirrel**. /snip Whoa, whoa, whoa. I said servant, and never mentioned race, cotton, plantations, or the big house in my depiction. I’m not subtle about alleging racism, or anything of the like. The “Sessions is a racist” panorama would be MUCH more conspicuous. However, I did err with respect to the local delicacies. Alabama is not a top three producer of pecans OR peaches. For that, I offer my humblest apologies. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/55 "2017-03-07T03:29:06Z")
It really is fun. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/56 "2017-03-08T01:09:05Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > The only way to make this name more Southern is to nickname Jeff Sessions “Roscoe” or “Bubba”. Or just “J.B.” > [@snowthx](#): > > The Jefferson Beauregard Sessions thing seems to attempt to link him to the racist South His own record does that well enough, without anyone else having to try. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/57 "2017-03-08T10:12:22Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > The only way to make this name more Southern is to nickname Jeff Sessions “Roscoe” or “Bubba”. How about if you worked a “Buford” in there? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-love-saying-jefferson-beauregard-sessions-as-much-as-pubs-loved-saying-barack-hussein-obama/781236/58 "2017-03-08T17:35:00Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Jeff B. Sessions _is_ an unreconstructed Southern Klan-lover. Not true: The Klan are a buncha dirty pot smokers. (In fairness to the honorable JBS, the pot smoker quote reads very tongue-in-cheek to me) [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=2)