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1 posted on 09/01/2011 9:13:56 AM PDT by ventanax5
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I think the light is beginning to come on ....


2 posted on 09/01/2011 9:29:42 AM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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“So we Americans cannot help but feel some ambivalence toward our singularity in the world...”

I love the article, but, I don't think this statement is accurate.

Americans do not feel ambivalence about our singularity.
It is not now and it never was lorded over weak and oppressed people.

On the contrary, America is the first to offer assistance to people who are deprived, oppressed or threatened. I don't think the historic record is so far defaced that two world wars have been written out of the script.

This whole idea of guilt for exceptionalism is BS. I am certain there are millions and millions more people thankful for American exceptionalism than there are people who find it objectionable.

3 posted on 09/01/2011 9:32:21 AM PDT by SMARTY (A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
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Ummmm, NO.

He`s just a street agitator with a sheepskin who is a neo-marxist.

He hates unalienable rights, negative liberties. He adheres to the Soviet model of positive rights and the new soviet man.


4 posted on 09/01/2011 9:35:35 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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Like me, he is black, and it was the government that in part saved us from the ignorances of the people. So the concept of the exceptionalism—the genius for freedom—of the American people may still be a stretch for him. But in fact he was elected to make that stretch. It should be held against him that he has failed to do so.

Mr. Steele is both a genius with the written word as well as a true American patriot.

7 posted on 09/01/2011 10:06:45 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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Rush read this over the air today, giving it a good bump.


8 posted on 09/01/2011 10:46:29 AM PDT by Excellence ( CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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