Wednesday, December 22, 2010
American Exceptionalism - Do you believe?
It seems like a given that a president would believe in and even cheer lead for his country.
Hopefully the next president will...
Hopefully the next president will...
E. Thomas McClanahan writes on that subject in the Kansas City Star:
"American exceptionalism usually isn’t much of an issue in politics, but President Barack Obama changed that his first year in office. During a visit to France, he mishandled a question from a reporter who asked whether the president subscribed to 'the school of American exceptionalism that sees America as uniquely qualified to lead the world.'
The answer is now well known. Obama said he believes in American exceptionalism, 'just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.'
As James Q. Wilson dryly noted in a Washington Post interview, Obama 'did not understand how Americans feel about this.'"
