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Old 07-21-2010, 01:55 PM
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American "Exceptionalism"?

Obama continues to receive a ration of shit from the right wing for providing this answer to a query from a British reporter while in France last year concerning his feeling about American Exceptionalism, —“just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

What are your feelings about American Exceptionalism and the right wing's demands that American political figures must expound their adherance to this notion? Personally, I think it's tiresome and silly. Somehow they seem to feel that if you don't believe that America is exceptional (whatever that means), you're unpatriotic and unfit for public office.

In my years overseas, I have yet to travel to or live in a first-world nation that doesn't believe it's somehow exceptional. I just wish the right wing would cut the jingoistic crap.

Here's an interesting take on the subject.

What's your take on it?
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