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Evening In America: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the world can no longer depend on the U.S. to drive the global economy. Yes, that's the demoralizing sound of the White House spreading more malaise.

Speaking ahead of the G-20 weekend meeting in Toronto, Geithner told the BBC Thursday that "world growth in the future cannot depend as much on the U.S. as it did in the past."

In other words, don't expect the engine that has been the driver for the world economy for over a century to keep up the pace.

This fits with President Obama's conviction that the U.S. is no more extraordinary than any other country.

"I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism," he said last year just after taking office.

The Brits and the Greeks richly contributed to Western civilization. But only the U.S. took the best of both and formed a nation like no other. Our grand experiment in freedom, with its rule of law, limited government and open economy, has created the most exceptional nation in history.

The political left, of which the president is undeniably a product, isn't comfortable with such exceptionalism. They'd prefer our country to be no more notable than, say, Sweden or any other European nation that's traded its vigor and strength for the pacifier of the state.

Is this administration signaling through Geithner's warning and Obama's statement last year that it plans to level out the world by weakening the U.S. economically and politically?

The truth the left has a hard time accepting is that America has made the world a better place. Where would it be without the strength of the U.S. economy? What would have happened these last 200 years without the American ideals of liberty and law that set a lofty standard and provided a clear model for others to follow?

While Jimmy Carter supervised the country's decline into its late 1970s malaise because he missed the American exceptionalism all around him, Obama seems to be offended by it.

What our country needs today is an inspirational leader, one who gets what makes the U.S. unique and who'll boldly lead the nation out of its slide toward despair as he invites the world to climb with us.

[Valin]

Malaise is back in fashion

 

Does that mean the abomination known as disco is coming back?

[Argyle58]

Malaise is back in fashion

 

Does that mean the abomination known as disco is coming back?

 

I think I still have a leisure suit and a pair of platform shoes stored in the attic somewhere.

[Valin]

Malaise is back in fashion

 

Does that mean the abomination known as disco is coming back?

 

I think I still have a leisure suit and a pair of platform shoes stored in the attic somewhere.

 

 

Please Please Please leave them there.