Having spent many years living primarially around black people I had the pleasure of enjoyin' many a sermon delivered in a cadence that was comfortable yet inspiring... What some folks see as hyponotic isn't hypnotic at all but rhytum... This is why we enjoy music... It has a beat... A rhytum to it that fits in with our natural rhytums... It's kinda organic...

Obama has learned that speech pattern... It isn't as much African American as much as African American Preacherman... I guess, for alot of white people who haven't spent time in black churches it's kinda like hearing a new sound or style of music... I mean, it ain't gonna hypnotize you but you listen to it because you enjoy it...

I think people do enjoy listening to Obma becauase he has studied those older preacher's speech patterns and learned that groove... That's really what it is: a groove... I mean, you don't hear folks talk that much about "the groove" in the north but you sho nuff hear about "the groove" in the South... The highest compliment that a blues player can get in the South is for someone to say, "Nice groove, ya' got"...

So, hey, I'd just say, "Enjoy it"... You don't need no meds for it... You don't need no doctor... It's pleasing... Especially after a life time of listening to folks who ain't got a groove on... I'd name them but the list is endless...

B~