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Stop Obama From Beginning Every Sentence With the Word "Look." It's Offensive to Blind People

Created by C.C. on April 12, 2013

High time someone spoke up about this growing epidemic. Everybody knows that speech disfluency is prevalent in the linguistic patterns of many public speakers, and President Obama's oft-evoked expression "look" is, after years of repetition, every bit as annoying as Reagan's "well." As a blind civilian, it is my civic duty to get the president to acknowledge that not everyone CAN look. Just like not everybody can make a basket.

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