Smack of the Day

...courtesy The Corner

I believe in American exceptionalism,” President Obma said earlier this year, “just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

Harry Jaffa:

He has no idea of what American exceptionalism really meant.

What it meant was the American people in declaring their independence did so not on the basis of unique rights or privileges that they had, but on the basis of rights which they shared with all men everywhere. No other people had ever done such a thing.

(italics, ours)

In a way, the President's fumbling of this concept is understandable. We will cop to, ourselves, not yet fully getting our head wrapped around a select company of men who had the most to lose in the latter half of the 18th century, essentially going all in for a shot at liberty and independence when the chances of that coming to fruition were woefully slim.

So, it would appear to go double, triple... quadruple(?) for a man who has spent the entirety of his adult life marinating in the jerk of leftist academia.