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Pat Buchanan: People worldwide ‘are sick of hearing’ talk of American exceptionalism
dailycaller.com ^ | September 15, 2013

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.”


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To: dfwgator

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.


41 posted on 09/15/2013 9:06:24 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Slump Tester
And we could point out how OUR technology made his rockets. We should also point out to the puke that if wasn’t for us he’d be speaking german.

"Our Germans are better than their Germans, Senator."

42 posted on 09/15/2013 9:06:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
We lost our way after the end of the Cold War.

Like it or not, the Cold War gave us a sense of purpose....with it over, we seem too eager to find new monsters to fight.


Yeah, 'fraid you're right. Tell you the truth, I do long for the days of the Cold War because of what you just said. If it was still going on, I say a President like Clinton getting elected would have been 50/50 and Obummer would be lucky to get into the primaries.

A side notw, one of my favorite sites is TV Tropes where they have good, and sometimes funny, articles on most things. one of my favorites is Why we are Bummed Communism Fell

Come to think of it, Obummer's recent actions apply here too in an article called Make The Bear Angry Again.
43 posted on 09/15/2013 9:07:39 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
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To: dfwgator
Of course it makes sense under those conditions that we were able to eat the Worlds’ lunch. But now the rest of the world is catching up quickly.

Again, we seem to be on the same frequency.
44 posted on 09/15/2013 9:11:47 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
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To: stanne

The constitution is what made America exceptional. We are unmoored from it right now.


45 posted on 09/15/2013 9:13:51 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Ben Ficklin

I am 74 and never heard of american exceptionalism until about 1 1/2 years ago....who started it...


46 posted on 09/15/2013 9:15:56 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Tailgunner Joe

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.


47 posted on 09/15/2013 9:16:54 PM PDT by Lancey Howard ("...if you can keep it." Oh well.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

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.


48 posted on 09/15/2013 9:17:40 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

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.


49 posted on 09/15/2013 9:19:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Pat Buchanan is right, as usual.


50 posted on 09/15/2013 9:19:49 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Texas Eagle

I think you’re on to something there.


51 posted on 09/15/2013 9:19:53 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: MichaelCorleone

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.


52 posted on 09/15/2013 9:20:14 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: familyop

I heard Pat had a relative who died in a concentration camp. He was killed when he fell out of a guard tower!/s;)


53 posted on 09/15/2013 9:20:47 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Ben Ficklin; TexGrill; Gondring
Wow.

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.

54 posted on 09/15/2013 9:22:17 PM PDT by Washi (She was Hannah Montana when Bush was president. Thanks a lot Barack Obama! :))
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Next time you're at a dinner party in the UK and they start ripping the USA, tell them "Sprechenze Deutsch?" ("Do you speak German?")

When they tell you they don't, say "You're welcome".

55 posted on 09/15/2013 9:23:35 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Washi

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.”


56 posted on 09/15/2013 9:27:28 PM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: ZOOKER

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.


57 posted on 09/15/2013 9:30:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: goat granny

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.


58 posted on 09/15/2013 9:31:23 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Tailgunner Joe

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.


59 posted on 09/15/2013 9:33:48 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Washi

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.


60 posted on 09/15/2013 9:34:38 PM PDT by Viennacon
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