HughMcB wrote:

He's as qualified to comment on this as Paris Hilton on quantum mechanics.

BrandySpears wrote:vid snipped

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalis]American exceptionalism[/url] wrote:
American exceptionalism is the theory that the United States occupies a special niche among the nations of the world[1] in terms of its national credo, historical evolution, political and religious institutions, and its being built by immigrants. The roots of the belief are attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville,[2][3] who claimed that the then-50-year-old United States held a special place among nations, because it was the first modern democracy.

The concept was first used in respect of the United States by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831 in his work Democracy in America:[13]

The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.

Dr. Kwaltz wrote:You know this shit is bad, really really bad when even President Obama has stated publicly he is a proponent of American exceptionalism.

Ben Macintyre wrote:More than half a century ago an African was arrested by Kenya's colonial police; he was imprisoned, tortured, and finally released two years later, a broken man. Such episodes were grimly common during the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule in Kenya, yet this sharp little shard of history has now poked above the surface again, as the story of Barack Obama's grandfather.

... Mr Obama's diplomatic remarks about Britain have been pallid and tactful; it is the more unguarded corners of his writing that offer revealing flickers of another attitude. In his memoir Dreams from My Father Obama devotes just six words to describing his first visit to Britain: “I took tea by the Thames.” The British passengers on the plane wear "ill-fitting blazers"; the one sitting next to him, an acne-ridden Mancunian, he finds aggravatingly superior, referring to the “Godforsaken countries” of Africa.

On safari in Kenya, he talks to an English doctor with “pasty blond hair” who has quit Britain to live in Africa. “England seems terribly cramped,” the man says. “The British have so much more, but seem to enjoy it less.”

... Later, in Kenya, riding the imperial-era railway, he imagines “some nameless British officer”, puffed with colonial hubris: “Would he have felt a sense of triumph, a confidence that the guiding light of Western civilisation had finally penetrated the African darkness?” He squirms at the African waiters' cringing attitude towards whites in the Nairobi hotels, and mocks the tourists pretending to be characters in some imagined re-creation of Out of Africa.

... Mr Obama's different historical legacy will not mean a change of foreign policy, but it may well presage a change of tone - on Guantánamo as well as Britain. For British diplomats, reading President Obama will require a new vocabulary, and understanding a different sort of history. Not the glory of shared victory over evil in the Second World War, but the more complicated history of decolonisation, in which Britain's role was sometimes less than glorious and both sides committed horrific atrocities.

Mr Obama has written movingly about how his African past has defined him; that past, still emerging, may also help to define the future of the Anglo-American relationship.

When he hears an English accent, I suspect, the new president will not automatically think of Churchill, Benny Hill or Princess Diana, but rather of some nameless British colonial officer, gazing out on an Africa he believed he owned: for that is where Obama is coming from.

Tyrannical wrote:The Left in the US invented lies through historical rewrites. Texas is mostly just undoing these leftist lies.

Dr. Kwaltz wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:The Left in the US invented lies through historical rewrites. Texas is mostly just undoing these leftist lies.

*fap-fap-fap-fap-Oh-god!*

Tyrannical wrote:The Left in the US invented lies through historical rewrites. Texas is mostly just undoing these leftist lies.

Gawdzilla wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:The Left in the US invented lies through historical rewrites. Texas is mostly just undoing these leftist lies.

Sad, just fucking sad.

Tyrannical wrote:

Gawdzilla wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:The Left in the US invented lies through historical rewrites. Texas is mostly just undoing these leftist lies.

Sad, just fucking sad.

Yeah it is. For example some people so throughly beleive in the Leftist re-writes that they think seperation of church and state was in the constitution.

mmmcheezy wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:

Gawdzilla wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:The Left in the US invented lies through historical rewrites. Texas is mostly just undoing these leftist lies.

Sad, just fucking sad.

Yeah it is. For example some people so throughly beleive in the Leftist re-writes that they think seperation of church and state was in the constitution.

Evidence that it wasn't?

mmmcheezy wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:

Gawdzilla wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:The Left in the US invented lies through historical rewrites. Texas is mostly just undoing these leftist lies.

Sad, just fucking sad.

Yeah it is. For example some people so throughly beleive in the Leftist re-writes that they think seperation of church and state was in the constitution.

Evidence that it wasn't?

Wiðercora wrote:

mmmcheezy wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:

Gawdzilla wrote:

Tyrannical wrote:The Left in the US invented lies through historical rewrites. Texas is mostly just undoing these leftist lies.

Sad, just fucking sad.

Yeah it is. For example some people so throughly beleive in the Leftist re-writes that they think seperation of church and state was in the constitution.

Evidence that it wasn't?

The phrase 'Separation of Church and State' does not appear in the constitution, it is from a letter by one of the Founding Fathers, discussing the constitution.