Only one sitting president in the last 82 years has publicly uttered the magical phrase "American exceptionalism" -- care to guess who it is? Ronald Reagan, he of the "shining city on a hill?" George W. Bush, who closed his speeches by asking that "God continue to bless" America? Nope. The only president to publicly discuss (and for that matter embrace) "American exceptionalism" is Barack Obama.
This would be the same president, of course, who is subject to a steadily rising stream of suspicion because of his supposed refusal to give voice sufficient voice to his love of country.Kathleen Parker, a conservative pundit for CNN and the Washington Post, said Conservatives "long to hear" the word. Even adding Obama has "studiously avoided using the word". Must be nice being paid to be willfully wrong all the time.
Bush, in case you're curious, twice used the word "exceptional" to describe Harriet Miers, his failed, ridiculous Supreme Court nominee, but never referenced American "exceptionalism," Republican longing notwithstanding.
Let's face facts here.
If Obama could walk on water, they'd complain that he's only doing that because he doesn't know how to swim.
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