And some are all hat and no cattle.
No European is going to admit to American exceptionalism. They are post-national, post-Christian, post-modern. They don’t understand our commitment to guns, to capital punishment (the horror!), to religion, to capitalism. That’s all so bourgeois and passe and provincial. We’re a bunch of rubes, cowboys like President Bush. Frankly, I don’t give a damn what they think.
And some are all hat and no cattle.
Well, coming from a deep-blue area of a highly-unchurched blue state, I'd have to re-word that to "the commitment some of us hold". A lot of folks here, like Obama's SF friends, don't understand either.