Posted on 09/15/2013 8:24:57 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan offered a counterintuitive reaction to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in The New York Times last week, saying that other countries are “sick of hearing Americans” calling themselves exceptional.
Buchanan, author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” argued that Putin echoed what Obama and many Americans had said with regards to the United States as the world’s exceptional superpower.
“From the hysterical reaction in this city [Washington, D.C.] to Putin’s op-ed piece, he put this one right down the smokestack,” Buchanan said on ’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group. “What he did is he keyed off what Obama said on exceptionalism and he countered it with an argument which people all over the world believe. They are sick of hearing Americans talk about ‘we are the indispensable nation,’ as Madeline Albright said. ‘We see further than ours, that’s why we can use force.’ ‘We are the sheriff of the world, we are first, we are leaders.’ He’s not only appealing to the people of the world, he is appealing to that half of the United States to whom Barack Obama himself was appealing. So, I think he hit home.”
I’d point out also that countries who gained independence at that time and did not become communist were rife with corruption and disorder, something we did not have to deal with.
"Our Germans are better than their Germans, Senator."
The constitution is what made America exceptional. We are unmoored from it right now.
I am 74 and never heard of american exceptionalism until about 1 1/2 years ago....who started it...
Buchanan is right. The days of American exceptionalism are behind us now. I mean, look at what occupies the freaking White House. America elected the African communist scumbag. And re-elected him! Then there’s John F’n Kerry, Joe Biden, a feminized, faggotized military, and a nation barreling towards the mediocrity of a weak, European socialist welfare state. Yikes, is Buchanan ever right. And so is Putin.
He has a point in that as a nation we really aren’t exceptional any more. I think if push came to shove, there’s probably enough Americans who could make a good account for ourselves, but overall we’ve become lethargic, fat, flaccid and anything but exceptional. That decline didn’t take long.
Who are the most famous Americans today?
The Kartrashians
Miley Cyrus
Snoop Dogg (or whatever he calls himself now)
Paris Hilton
This is America to the rest of the world these days.
Pat Buchanan is right, as usual.
I think you’re on to something there.
Personally, I think the world is weary of depending on a paper tiger to lead the free world.
That’s tough $hit for the world. Let them step up to the plate. No more American blood for “the world”.
The US, including our military, is now the primary tool to implement the New World Order. But the US must be knocked down before the NWO can be implemented. The weaker we become, the stronger the NWO becomes.
I heard Pat had a relative who died in a concentration camp. He was killed when he fell out of a guard tower!/s;)
I've been accosted by psychotic Pat Buchanan supporters.
I can't take anyone seriously that supports this anti-semitic, anti-American, attention whore.
Just because he spouts the occasional conservative acorn, doesn't make him conservative.
When they tell you they don't, say "You're welcome".
Thanks for saying I “accosted” you. I love that tough guy rep. And just think, if I spent more than 2 seconds pondering a rebuttal to your prior statement, you might have accussed me of “terrorism.”
Britain defeated the Germans plans for invasion on their own, thank you very much...Britain wasn’t going to defeat Germany on their own of course, but at least they did manage to save themselves without our help.
The Nazis realized that while it would be too costly to attempt to invade Britain, they were at least neutralized, and could turn their attention to the East. Once the Nazis got into that quagmire, they were no longer a threat to take over Britain.
I am 86 and from my time in a parochial grade school as a son of immigrants I remember being told that the USA was an exceptional government created by the Founders. My brother who was killed on Okinawa and myself who also served overseas in WWII went into service believing such. Perhaps one can take issue with the specific word expression ‘exceptionalism’ but I will argue the meaning of being exceptional is valid. That is at least until a bunch of immigrants and non caring citizens started being/thinking otherwise.
The people that came to the United States were not exceptional with the exception of the desire for a better life. In fact most were at the bottom of the social economic scale and had nothing of wealth.
The exceptional Americans were those that wrote our Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution of the United States of America.(they paid a heavy price for this) with there sacred honor, wealth and often their lives. They were the exceptional people that gave us our great nation.
Those two great documents are what allowed ordinary, poor, and desperate people to come to this land and become a nation of exceptional people. E Pluribus Unum, from many one. The poor of Italy, Germany,Ireland, Britain, Poland, Eastern Europe etc. came here with a common dream. They wanted a good life and to be Americans.
We are an exceptional nation not due to our people but to the Constitution under which our people live. It allows us to go out and achieve or fail and try again. That is why we are am exceptional nation. Our Constitution is exceptional and it has created exceptional people.
Alas, the Constitution is under attack by the left, the legislative and Judicial activism. If successful we will no longer be an exceptional nation full of exceptional people. We will become Europe or worse.
I disagree with Pat on many issues, but the issue he is talking about here is the question of ‘is America exceptional anymore?’
Economically, we’re a welfare state with debt up the wazoo
Politically, we’re run by leftist radicals and spineless GOPrats
Militarily, we’re a paper tiger that sends women to die on the frontline, and homosexuals to fight real men.
Morally..., we won’t even go there.
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