What does an american accent sound like to a foreigner?

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shinyuhadouken said:
as others said, there is no official accent in the US.

This, more or less. About the closest one gets is the one spoken on the West coast and the mid-Atlantic states, and I'm not sure this accent has a name (or even that it's the same in both regions, though they sound similar enough that I suspect they're at least related). The Midwest has a different accent, as do the Northern cities. Then there's the South, which at the very least needs to be split between Southwest, Deep South, and Appalachia. And there's whatever the heck Sarah Palin has; it reminds me of North Dakota, but that's not where she's from; maybe some kind of Northwest accent (not to be confused with Pacific Northwest, which runs much closer to the West coast that I mentioned above)? If I really had to name a standard in terms of U.S. Presidents, I'd put it somewhere between Reagan and Obama and call both of them very close.