This is a black politician for all americans with none of the cadences or cartoon histrionics of a jesse jackson or an al sharpton , none of the signals that say : " I speak only for black america . "
Robertson himself describes a process wherein his swedish girlfriend gives him a literal line-by-line translation into english then reads the swedish to him to give him " the cadences " after which he created " relatively free " versions in english .
Generations of english listeners had this sensitivity practiced weekly , as the great sonorous cadences of the king james bible rolled over them : " and the earth was without form , and void , and darkness was upon the face of the deep ...... "
