“The governor [Mississippi’s Haley Barbour] claimed that Americans had been particularly deprived of information on Obama’s youth, while they knew a great deal about the formative years of the other chief executives all the way back to the way the youthful George Washington ‘chopped down a cherry tree.’
“Let us reconsider the above paragraph in light of the fact that while Obama wrote an entire book about his childhood, Washington never chopped down the cherry tree.”
I listened to a Haley Barbour interview on NPR the other day … for a few minutes. I couldn’t stand his voice. What a hick! What a doofus! Word is that he’s in the GOP running for POTUS but I can’t imagine having to listen to that particularly dumb drawl frequently for four years and I’m from Georgia where speaking good English isn’t very important to many people.