1.0 link 93554 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy-drexler/its-not-just-what-you-say_b_93554.html It's been a very long eight years. I was reminded of that as I listened to Barack Obama's amazing speech on race in America.

Just as you eventually get used to the annoying buzz from a failing light fixture, we have become accustomed to the snarling dismissiveness of Dick Cheney, the monotonic state-speak of Condoleezza Rice, the squinty-eyed arrogance of Donald Rumsfeld, and the whiney weaseling of Karl Rove.

There is, of course, a special...

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