Teaching With a Kentucky Accent

[Mark A Mandel]

        [Dan Goodman -- Bev, your reply attributes this as "you said"]
#>Eugene McCarthy has been quoted as saying "I would not entrust Jimmy
#>Carter and his band of merry men with the job of snake control in
#>Ireland."

        [Beverly Flanigan]
#Yes, alas, Gene McCarthy (who I campaigned for in my old Minnesota days)
#fell prey to elitism. . . .

Excuse me, but where does that quotation imply any connection with Jimmy
Carter's accent or region of origin? There are lots and lots of reasons
for one politician to put down another one, and some of them are even
legitimate.

-- Mark A. Mandel