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No one's exceptional -- but Obama

Big Dog

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I read this in the paper this morning and I just thought I'd share. Some of the points made hit me pretty hard. No comment other than, you'd think the exceptional "one" would be able to recognize "exceptional" and America as such!

No one's exceptional -- but Obama
By Ralph R. Reiland Monday, March 15, 2010

To understand the fall of Barack Obama (the largest drop for a president in Gallup's approval ratings in half a century), start with his notion that he's exceptional and America isn't.

Asked by a Financial Times reporter last April if he believed in American exceptionalism, Obama replied: "I believe in American exceptionalism just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."

So we're kidding ourselves. There's nothing objectively special or exceptional about America. If we didn't exist, the Greeks could have done the job of stopping the march of Nazism and communism. Or perhaps the Brits or Kenyans could have picked up the ball.

Or maybe Obama thinks the United States was trigger-happy and that Hitler, Stalin and Mao would have turned aside their evil ambitions if only our leaders had flashed more Colgate smiles, bowed more deeply and expressed more shame about our nation's past slip-ups.

Obama's always talking about education and the need for a new and better model for learning. Someone should ask him if he believes in Jewish exceptionalism in regard to education, if he believes in Jews as a prototype to replicate (Jews make up 2/10ths of 1 percent of the world's population and 31 percent of the Nobel laureates in medicine and 27 percent of the physics laureates).

I suspect that Obama would reply with something like this, something pro-leveling: "I believe in Puerto Rican exceptionalism, just as I believe in Palestinian extraordinariness. It's not easy to make Puerto Rican rice and pigeon stew."

For improvements in learning, it's a good bet that Obama would ignore what's worked in producing exceptional numbers of laureates in medicine and just propose some feel-good resource redistribution so that various victim groups that are underrepresented in education would end up with a free ride when it comes to tuition, books and grades.

Still, even in this time of forced leveling and redistribution, there remains one type of exceptionalism and superiority that's fine with some and that's the elevation of Obama as an incomparable and exceptional chief organizer.

Michelle Obama explained the specialness of her husband in a February 2008 speech at UCLA. "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed," she declared. Barack "will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism," that you "come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones."

I thought the government was supposed to protect our lives, liberty and property. Where's it said that politicians are charged with erasing our cynicism, especially when they're the creators of much of it?

And what's wrong with being secluded and contented? Why is our comfort zone Obama's business?

Remember when he said we shouldn't expect to "drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes at 72 degrees at all times" and still be treated seriously by the world's globalists?

And remember Obama's sky-high rhetoric on the evening of June 3, 2008, when he wrapped up his party's nomination. Future generations, he said, would look back on that night and say, "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." It's like the turtles were coming out of the water and clapping in the moonlight.

The picture? A flawed America, a magical candidate -- and a paradigm sure to self-destruct.
 

Av8r3400

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All that I can hope for is that people are beginning to wake from the stupor that they have been in, in regard to this immensely unqualified academic that has been thrust upon us by the state controlled media and the socialist left fringe.

My pity goes to those that will be destroyed by him and his policies, because they have been too ignorant or blinded by slogans and bumper-stickers to see his rhetoric as the propaganda and outright lies that they are.
 

muleman

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The great I AM that was is showing his true inabilities to lead.
 
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