Subject: Not Exceptional Enough
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:06:07 -0500

Not Exceptional Enough
If House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) looked bored during President Obama's State of the Union address, perhaps it's because he wasn't listening. On CNN last night he claimed the president rejects the idea that America is exceptional -- which happened to be one of the main themes of the speech. 

Said Boehner: "Well, they -- they've refused to talk about America exceptionalism. We are different than the rest of the world. Why? Because Americans have -- the country was built on an idea that ordinary people could decide what their government looked like and ordinary people could elect their own leaders. And 235 years ago that was a pretty novel idea... but you can't get the left to talk about it. They don't -- they reject that notion." 

Ben Smith: "It should also be noted that Obama called Boehner Speaker of 'The Greatest Nation on Earth.'"

Eric D. Schwerin
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