No one's exceptional -- but Obama

Tribune Review ^ | 3/15/10 | Ralph Reiland

[ICAB9USA]

To understand the fall of Barack Obama (the largest drop for a president in Gallup's approval ratings in half a century), start with his notion that he's exceptional and America isn't.

Asked by a Financial Times reporter last April if he believed in American exceptionalism, Obama replied: "I believe in American exceptionalism just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."

So we're kidding ourselves. There's nothing objectively special or exceptional about America. If we didn't exist, the Greeks could have done the job of stopping the march of Nazism and communism. Or perhaps the Brits or Kenyans could have picked up the ball.

Or maybe Obama thinks the United States was trigger-happy and that Hitler, Stalin and Mao would have turned aside their evil ambitions if only our leaders had flashed more Colgate smiles, bowed more deeply and expressed more shame about our nation's past slip-ups.

Obama's always talking about education and the need for a new and better model for learning. Someone should ask him if he believes in Jewish exceptionalism in regard to education, if he believes in Jews as a prototype to replicate (Jews make up 2/10ths of 1 percent of the world's population and 31 percent of the Nobel laureates in medicine and 27 percent of the physics laureates).

I suspect that Obama would reply with something like this, something pro-leveling: "I believe in Puerto Rican exceptionalism, just as I believe in Palestinian extraordinariness. It's not easy to make Puerto Rican rice and pigeon stew."

[ICAB9USA]

"And remember Obama's sky-high rhetoric on the evening of June 3, 2008, when he wrapped up his party's nomination. Future generations, he said, would look back on that night and say, "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." It's like the turtles were coming out of the water and clapping in the moonlight."

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The only thing exceptional about Obama is the incredible way he can swivel his head from side to side to check out his ever- present teleprompters. The pencil-necked communist would be quite at home at a tennis match.

[SmokingJoe]

And remember Obama’s sky-high rhetoric on the evening of June 3, 2008, when he wrapped up his party's nomination. Future generations, he said, would look back on that night and say, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” It's like the turtles were coming out of the water and clapping in the moonlight

Chortle! You just gotta laugh at that one.
More like we'll look back on that night, and say, “This was the moment when our country started on a very steep, slippery slope to mayhem and destruction”.

[SmokingJoe]

The pencil-necked communist would be quite at home at a tennis match.

LOL!
Too bad he never chose to became a tennis umpire. The country would be in much better shape by now, with him safely ensconced in a tennis court permanently.

[ICAB9USA]

Chortle! You just gotta laugh at that one.

More like we'll look back on that night, and say, “This was the moment when our country started on a very steep, slippery slope to mayhem and destruction”.

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LOL, yes.

And we may have to soon look back on "The Slaughter Solution" and Obama as the slaughter of the Presidency, the American people's will, and The Constitution.

[LibLieSlayer]

The muzzie in chief HATES America and all that make us America... including US!

LLS

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Dang. That was good reading.
Serendipity in Pburgh ping!

[ICAB9USA]

The muzzie in chief HATES America and all that make us America...

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Yes. You are so very correct.

I constantly wonder why that fact (he hates America) does not bother many of the strangers who just may have a partially functioning brain and who voted for the turd.

[ICAB9USA]

Danke.

Ralph Reiland is a quality man ........... an economics professor and restaraunteur in Pittsburgh. He is quite a gentleman.

[NoExpectations]

I remember thinking “tennis match” the first time I saw him speak. I had no idea about the teleprompters. Now it makes me crazy because the man can’t speak without someone telling him what to say.

[devistate one four]

Ozero is a festering boil on the backside of this great nation.

The day is coming when him and his ilk will be flushed down the crapper like so much sh!t.

[Vaduz]

There’s nothing objectively special or exceptional about America.
Proof the idiot never opened a history book.No wonder his Harvared records are sealed.

[ICAB9USA]

The day is coming when him and his ilk will be flushed down the crapper like so much sh!t.

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May that please be today or very soon?

[ICAB9USA]

I remember thinking “tennis match” the first time I saw him speak. I had no idea about the teleprompters. Now it makes me crazy because the man can’t speak without someone telling him what to say.

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He is really very ignorant. The only thing he really knows/feels is that America sucks.