How amnestic time is. Barack Obama has, in a hundred different ways on a thousand different occasions, urged, inspired, even implored us to engage in conversation, discourse, tolerance, empathy and compassion with each other in order to move the needle towards a more perfect world. Those things are not easy to do in the best of times. They are essential to do in trying times like these. One sure way of making Obama’s legacy vanish into the ether is to use certitude as a shield rather than summon the better angels of our nature to advance human decency. Yes, now is the time. This is the place. We are the ones.
Now, rake me over the coals, if that be your will. (That's a little bit of Leonard Cohen : )
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