When Hillary Clinton is in Alabama, that can mean only one thing: with her Southern accent is following close behind.
When CNN cut to a portion of her speech to an audience in Fairfield, Alabama Saturday, it happened to capture Hillary in all of her fake accent glory.
Hillary Clinton’s Southern accent returns in AlabamaHillary the Fake.
Posted by The American Mirror on Sunday, February 28, 2016
“I met a student who has a 13 percent interest rate. Anybody here have a 13 percent or higher interest rate, this young man right there? My gosh,” Clinton said with folksy charm that seemed to be applied with a trowel.
“I want everybody to understand what we have done to our young people. I don’t blame them for being frustrated. We haven’t even had interest rates for years now, because of the great recession, and even before that. And we’re charging young people 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 percent? It is so wrong. We’re going to refinance.
“The other thing we’re going to do, move as many as will move with me into what are called Contingency Repayment Plans. That’s what I had when I went to law school, where you pay it back as a percentage of your income.
“So if you go be a teacher, firefighter, police officer,” she said with a heavy drawl.
“When I got out of law school, I was a lawyer working for the Children’s Defense Fund, I made maybe $14,000 a year, that’s how I could take a job I wanted to do and be able to afford it. I came down to Alabama to investigate segregated academies and was down here gathering information to try to prevent them from getting tax exempt status. I did a job I loved and could afford to do it because I was paying it back as a percentage. We’re going to move as many will go in to these programs.
“Give it to a contingency program and then we’re going to stop after 20 years, we’re not going any further than that.”
Alabama’s Democratic primary election will be held March 1.
According to a poll from mid-February, Clinton currently holds a 28-point lead over Bernie Sanders among the state’s likely Democratic voters.
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