Yes, we can.

[Alex]

Here's a sign of change, and I think Jon Stewart nailed it yesterday:

"...and so today on March 18, 2008, a Tuesday, a politician talked to Americans about race as if they were adults."

Who knows what actual talk rather than pretend outrage will accomplish.

On the other hand, it has been interesting because I've been very busy and haven't seen the speech. Only everybody's reaction to it and some clips on radio news and it has been a Rorschach test kind of thing. Most people are just finding in it what they were already looking for.