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President-elect Barack Obama has already achieved a rhetorical break with the arrogant, pompous and rather totalitarian language of the outgoing Bush administration. Thus, a new grammar is being presented in which the United States is reinvented as a particularly inclusive and exceptional place where "everything is possible."

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