[ez]

Britain and Spain do not have the “Bill of Rights.” The Bill of Rights is what makes America exceptional. Foreign policy can be viewed simply as the quest to bring the Bill of Rights to every nation on Earth.

[Diogenesis]

“I have never been so proud of Amerika.
But who to help first?
Either my "Father”('Lockerbie'-down)"
? Or my fellow soldiers of allah in al Qaeda?”

[Yardstick]

There is nothing real about Obama. Or if there is something real, it’s buried several layers beneath what appears at the surface of what he says. You have to parse his expressed ideas the way you had to parse Bill Clinton’s words. And I think you’ve parsed him correctly here. He’s just redefined American exceptionalism rather than actually embrace the classical definition.

I think he’s been stewing about this for a while. I think he felt stung over criticism of his earlier statement which equated American exceptionalism with British and Greek exceptionalism and thereby negated it. Most of his deep strategic thinking isn’t in matters of foreign policy and that kind of thing, but rather in how he can manage perceptions of himself. I think he’s been looking for an opportunity to revisit his earlier statement and to recast his meaning in a way that is more favorable to him. He has done that by subtly redefining the meaning of American exceptionalism. His new meaning lets him have his cake and eat it too.

[Girlene]

De Tocqueville observed that the young American nation had a unique ability to prosper. This was the result of an exclusive political and economic environment, namely liberty, which enabled a culture of success.............

...............The exceptional quality which de Tocqueville noted enabled America to become prosperous and therefore powerful. Conversely, the Left’s bastardization of American exceptionalism, the so-called “responsibility to protect,” is a product of power which dictates its use.

Well said.

[Huck]

"that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue; that, in fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it. "

George Washington, Farewell Address

Well then, have we the People been careful and prudent in our use of liberty under the Constitution? Please. We're exceptionally broke, exceptionally spoiled--really we are an exceptional disgrace, as a body politic.

I'm sick of all this namby-pamby exceptionalism talk. Rah-rah. It's sort of like when the New York Yankees go through a rough patch and don't win any championships or even compete. Suddenly all the Yankees fans get history and start squawking about Mantle and Ruth and Dimaggio. They rely on past glories to salve their egos when their actual product is not performing.

When you're really performing, you don't need to point it out. It speaks for itself and people say it about you without you prompting the discussion. When you are really executing, the results tell the story.

That's why I liked it when Trump said on Limbaugh's show that we are NOT a great country right now. We have the potential, but we are not executing. He's f-ing 100% correct. We need to be TOUGHER on ourselves than the world is, not coddling ourselves. Are we really that brittle?

[alexander_busek]

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

--Barack Hussein Obama

This is obviously sarcasm, like my saying that I believe my baby is the most beautiful in the world - while at the same time admitting that of course every father feels the same way about his baby.

I could think of no more-effective way of saying that such feelings and/or beliefs are totally without objective truth.

Regards,