When I am the nominee, I will offer a clear choice. John McCain won't be able to say that I ever supported this war in Iraq, because I opposed it from the beginning. Senator McCain said the other day that we might be mired for a hundred years in Iraq, which is reason enough to not give him four years in the White House. If we had chosen a different path, the right path, we could have finished the job in Afghanistan, and put more resources into the fight against bin Laden; and instead, of spending hundreds of billions of dollar in Baghdad, we could have put that money into our schools and hospitals, our road and bridges - and that's what the American people need us to do right now.

Barack Obama, Potomac Primary Night Speech, February 12, 2008
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Ethos/Pathos/Logos

What does vexed mean as it is used in the second stanza of "the second coming"?

Around, blank character is one who changes and grows as a result of the conflict in the story.

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