I can't stand Michelle Bachmann's accent

[apples and oranges]

Especially the way she pronounces "United."

[spanone]

1. i can't stand michelle bachmann

gonna be a long, painful election

[provis99]

2. think that's bad?

Try listening to the average grating Chicago accent. It's like a lunatic crossing of New Jersey with Fargo.

[Cleita]

3. You mean the nasal whine?

Yep, both her and Sarah Palin are very annoying even if they said anything worth listening to. I believe they could use some elocution lessons if they insist on making speeches.

[RebelOne]

12. I saw her on C-Span today and could not put my finger

on what annoyed me about her speech. You nailed it. Yes, the nasal whine.

[Skidmore]

4. She speaks like a Minnesotan, even though

right now she swears she is an Iowan. *gagging*

[JBoy]

5. You should hear her John Wayne impression.

Doesn't sound anything like him.

[hlthe2b]

6. only very slightly less annoying than Palin's screech...

Equally hateful, though.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. I hate her shoes.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. She has a very annoyingly nasal voice

and some of the vowel peculiarities of northern Midwest accents that you can find everywhere from the shores of Lake Erie west to Minnesota.

But to be quite honest American accents are generally rather nasal, and the "non-standard" vowels are not much stranger than those of Californians.

[liberal N proud]

9. Her voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Far worse than Palin which is already up there on the scale of impossible to listen to.

[JonLP24]

10. I'd say the same

but I can't stand my own accent and am sure others can't stand it either.

[NNN0LHI]

11. All Republicans say Noonited Snates of Numaerica

I noticed this when Fred Thompson announced a few years ago.

I thought he was just drunk at the time but then I noticed they all do it.

Don

[Raine]

13. Sometimes her voice is almost as shrill as Palin's

neither of them seem to know what a microphone is for ... they just scream. x(