QuoteSometimes, though, the automatic response, going with your gut, is the correct one: America really is exceptional. The data prove it. We routinely stand as an outlier in surveys of international attitudes, because we have unique features, and those features make us better than other countries. Somebody has to be the best country on Earth. It happens to be us.
Except it didn't just happen. We are the oldest democracy, and the succeeding ones — our many imitators around the globe — were far more suspicious of freedom, individual rights and tipping too much of the balance of power to the people rather than an elite class.

QuoteThe reality of American exceptionalism is that it tells a story of a country very much at odds with the fantasy version preferred by Obama and other liberals, a sort of continental campus where "hate speech" is carefully controlled, everyone thinks income inequality is a big deal, government is respected or even beloved, the churches are empty and no one owns a gun.
Much to Obama's chagrin, Americans overwhelmingly reject the idea that we're all enrolled at the United States of Oberlin. They love America as it is.

Quote from: TboneAgain on February 22, 2015, 09:53:12 PM
Dude writes for the New York Post. His latest article is titled, "Sure, Obama loves America — just not the America we live in."

Here are a couple of cuts that struck me:

I very much encourage you to read the whole thing.