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Hmmn: Is the One Haunted By Jimmy Carter?

Professor Ann Althouse plays Sigmound Freud.   The professor carter-peanut [1] parses Barack Obama with a very fine toothed  comb and offers an interesting suggestion, Ann Althouse [2]:

Obama’s use of the word is a little off. I think “jigger into” is unidiomatic in a way that makes it hard to figure out if it’s supposed to have the transitive or the intransitive meaning. But maybe he’s picturing jerking up and down or manipulating. Whatever. It’s not particularly wrong, but it’s interesting that he shifted from “jimmy” to “jigger.” If a white person made that shift in the context of this story, people might suspect racism (because of the word it rhymes with).

But I don’t think he was drawn to the word “jigger.” I think he was trying to get away from the word “jimmy.”

Whatever you do, don’t make them think of Jimmy!

Maybe the one isn’t as naccacist as I though and he is capable of at least partial self-awareness.   Very interesting.