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1 posted on 12/30/2014 12:06:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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There is a debate over American exceptionalism.
Few people, however, seem to understand what American exceptionalism is...”

Obviously!
They are the ones!


2 posted on 12/30/2014 12:19:12 AM PST by CharleysPride (non chiedere cio che non si puo prendere)
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The Left disagrees. [But they don’t understand what it means - more likely, they don’t want it because it is incompatible with European socialism, and so they distort its meaning.]

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/06/my_american_exceptionalism_fantasy_is_over_how_these_midterms_sealed_the_deal/

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/17/curse-american-exceptionalism

http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-end-of-american-exceptionalism-20140203

http://www.thenation.com/article/185305/its-time-rethink-american-exceptionalism

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/02/28/3344061/boo-exceptionalism/


3 posted on 12/30/2014 12:24:11 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Everyone refers to American exceptionalism with scorn, as though it means America is somehow above the law, or Gods chosen people, or some similar concept. It’s nothing of the sort.
you hear that all the time.


4 posted on 12/30/2014 12:29:02 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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If only this was still taught in school...


5 posted on 12/30/2014 12:34:09 AM PST by gattaca ("To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJ))
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I’m glad for this article because so many don’t understand what “American exceptionalism” is.


6 posted on 12/30/2014 12:49:07 AM PST by Ray76 (Who gave the stand down order in Ferguson? Who gave the stand down order in Benghazi?)
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bkmk


7 posted on 12/30/2014 12:51:48 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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10 posted on 12/30/2014 1:37:03 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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Jug ears was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and grifted his way through life. He’s not exceptional.


12 posted on 12/30/2014 2:06:38 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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bump


19 posted on 12/30/2014 4:54:35 AM PST by foreverfree
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Acceptionalism!


20 posted on 12/30/2014 5:09:41 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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