After 8 years of a candidate with a really hyper-annoying voice. Don’t you want to support the candidate of change? A vote for Hillary or McCain means 4 more years of oily smarm. Only one candidate’s voice is a sultry smooth Baritone. The choice is clear, you know who to vote for.
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Barry White?
Lovely acronym there.
you can say that again.
Where do I sign up for my membership card?
This has nothing to do with politics, Republicans, but didn’t you shiver just a little every time you envisioned George W. Bush sitting at the negotiating table with world leaders? The slurred words, the accent, that nervous “heh heh” laugh-no matter how intelligent he really is, he just comes across like the reincarnation of Billy Carter.
Barry White? Hell no. Samuel Ramey is your man. Mefistofele for president!
He may have been referring to Fred Thompson, although voice quality has to be balanced against the tendency to induce deep sleep.
Smooth silky baritone? How about that guy in the Geico ad who does the voice-overs for movie trailers?
Seriously, any candidate in the race right now is about a thousand percent improvement over GWB when it comes to speechmaking.
Lovely acronym there.
Really? Sometimes I get the feeling he’s trying to channel James Earl Jones.
Oh Boy, Another Meaningless Articulation from those fervent Obama supporters?
Have the Shrub’s verbal abilities declined since he became President?
Excuse me, partner, but the President would prefer you use either of the Dubya friendly terms - “speecifyin’” or “fancy talkin’”.
-Joe
I could go with Barry White (sure he’s dead, but that won’t stop him in Chicago!) or James Earl Jones. How about Isaac Hayes?
Nah, William Marshall.
Okay, also dead but … damn did that guy have a great voice.
Actually, they have. I think On the Media (a great NPR show that’s on at funky times on the weekend) did a piece comparing his debates against Ann Richards and those against Gore and Kerry.
Maybe I’ll dig it up and we can hear for ourselves.
I think if this happened, Tom Cruise would kill him rather than allow himself to be demoted to the second most visible Scientologist in the world.
Lou Rawls.
In a world where the candidates for President of the United States must face off in a grueling year-long contest, only one man has the voice to rise above the rest …
That man, of course, is Don LaFontaine.
I agree. In fact, on voice alone, only Obama and Huckabee (and maybe Thompson and Edwards) were at all tolerable out of all the candidates. In further fact, they’re all really only three voices.
Chriss Dodd stepped up one octave equals Mitt Romney stepped up one octave plus “my friends” equals John McCain.
Dennis Kucinich minus one octave equals Hillary Clinton minus one octave (on a good day) equals Ron Paul.
Giuliani speaks like W without the “folksy” “southern” “charm”. Add it back in and you get Edwards, and drop it an octave and you get Thompson.
