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1 posted on 06/02/2011 1:15:38 PM PDT by SanFranDan
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Editor-at-Large of TIME Magazine in October 2010

So that WOULD make him an expert in failures.


27 posted on 06/02/2011 2:01:43 PM PDT by DManA
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There is no room for argument on his point about the 14,000 page tax code. The 16th Amendment is a festering boil upon the Constitution.

As for his hint against the First Amendment (role of money in politics being libtard code for limiting political speech), the hell with him!

And as for parochialism, that's a two-edged sword. But it probably keeps out more bad ideas than good. In any case, most of the good policy ideas coming from the rest of the world are just our ideas, forgotten by us, and adapted by foreigners.

28 posted on 06/02/2011 2:04:49 PM PDT by cynwoody
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Translation: “I don’t understand how Y’ALL love the Constitution so much.”

Shades of the the Vichy Chicks’ “what’s so great about being patriotic anyway”.


29 posted on 06/02/2011 2:05:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (We are living in the Error of Obama. Put someone else in charge on election day 2012.)
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What he's saying is that he has a problem with the concept of American Exceptionalism.

As several commentaries recently have pointed, the Left is trying to change the meaning of American Exceptionalism to mean that conservatives believe that America is singled out by God.

The truth is that American Exceptionalism means that America was an exceptional case in 1789 (see also the Great Experiment). It was the first time that a country was formed on the basis of a shared commitment to abide by laws of man based on a founding constitution.

Until then, all countries were either monarchies or conquests. The American revolution threw off the binds of a divine right ruler and replaced them with a self-ruling government of the people.

That was what made America exceptional at the time.

-PJ

31 posted on 06/02/2011 2:13:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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bkmk


33 posted on 06/02/2011 2:26:54 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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I would love to meet this idiot face-to-face and open up a beeg ol’ can of whoop arse on him. Please Lord, provide a way.....please. ;)


36 posted on 06/02/2011 2:57:44 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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bfl


38 posted on 06/02/2011 5:19:26 PM PDT by tutstar
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