Clinton Blasts Trump on ‘American Exceptionalism,’ Fails to Mention Where Obama Once Stood on the Issue

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The Blaze:

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday took aim at Donald Trump for agreeing with Russian President Vladimir Putin when it comes to American exceptionalism.

 

The Democratic presidential nominee, in a speech before the American Legion in Cincinnati, recalled what her Republican rival has stated:

 

My opponent in this race has said very clearly that he thinks American exceptionalism is insulting to the rest of the world. In fact, when Vladimir Putin, of all people, criticized American exceptionalism, my opponent agreed with him, saying, “If you’re in Russia, you don’t want to hear that America is exceptional.”

 

Well, maybe you don’t want to hear it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.

 

Trump has, indeed, said that he doesn’t like the term “American exceptionalism.” In April 2015, one month before the Manhattan billionaire announced that he was running for president, he explained his views at a Texas forum. “I don’t think it’s a very nice term. ‘We’re exceptional. You’re not,’” Trump said at the time, adding that he would like the U.S. to “take everything back from the world that we’ve given them.”

 

“On top of taking it back, I don’t want to say we’re exceptional,” he continued. “Essentially you’re saying we’re more outstanding than you. By the way, you’ve been eating our lunch for the past 20 years, but we’re more exceptional than you.”

 

However, Clinton neglected to mention that President Barack Obama, her former boss, sounded a similar tune in 2009 when he said that he believes in American exceptionalism “just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

 

Five years later, Obama told an audience at West Point Military Academy, “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.”

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He believed in it before he didn't believe in it.

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Hillary’s Warped Notion of American Exceptionalism and Indispensability

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By: Jim Jatras | October 27, 2016

by Edward Lozansky and Jim Jatras

Perhaps one of the most used and abused political expressions in recent years has been that of “American exceptionalism.” Politicians and commentators routinely invoke it as high principle and accuse their opponents of insufficient devotion to it, or contrariwise blame it for all the ills of the world.

 

For example, in 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin ruffled many Americans’ feathers:

 

“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. . . . We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”

Hillary Clinton weighed in on exceptionalism in an August speech before the American Legion, in which she also took a swipe at Donald Trump:

 

The United States is an exceptional nation. . . . But, in fact, my opponent in this race has said very clearly that he thinks American exceptionalism is insulting to the rest of the world. In fact, when Vladimir Putin, of all people, criticized American exceptionalism, my opponent agreed with him, saying,

https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/hillarys-warped-notion-of-american-exceptionalism-and-indispensability/

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Is The US Experience Exceptional?

by Morris P. Fiorina

via In Perspective: Decision 2016

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

 

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A HOOVER INSTITUTION ESSAY ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POLITICS

Research by European scholars clearly answers yes. Their studies paint a picture that is the mirror image of that in the United States. The political class in European democracies is depolarizing and/or de-sorting. But as in the United States, this development appears to be only weakly tied to changes in their electorates. European electorates show some sorting but a great deal of stability. Regrettably, these studies do not suggest any mechanisms that might lead to de-sorting in the United States. One development that might (or might not) be related to elite depolarization in Europe is the rise of far-right (i.e., anti-immigrant) parties.

MORRIS P. FIORINA

http://www.hoover.org/research/us-experience-exceptional