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.
I would have been surprised were it otherwise. It’s just how FOXmemes work.
Here’s John Boehner oh so earnestly confused as to why Obama just doesn’t understand how great America is.
BOEHNER: Well, they — they’ve refused to talk about America exceptionalism. We are different than the rest of the world. Why? Because…
Naturally, the right’s own Jeff Miller (R,FL) had this to say:
“I don’t think we need the president to remind us how great this country is“
Obama: wrong on reminding us of American Exceptionalism repeatedly, wrong on repeatedly reminding us of American Exceptionalism.
Lemkin 