Challenging NPR et al
NPR is always begging for money. Why not call in and tell them you'd be happy to contribute if they can answer one simple question. Define American Exceptionalism. Who coined the phrase and when and why. And then ask what BHO said about it and if this term is something all Americans, especially Presidents, should know. Test yourself first, can you define it? Maybe this can open some very closed minds. Let us all know your results. They do need the money - and probably can't define it.
I don't know. I met someone who occasionally volunteered for public radio. She had worked at a top DC law firm before returning to the Midwest. I'm sure she knows what it means.
I had actually forgotten about it, and it brings back happy memories because she's my wife. Before we did things like Cub Scouts and football we did things like NPR, young professionals groups, UU events. I can hardly remember those events.
But, of course, it won't die. It's a government fed zombie that infects those who can't think for themselves with communist ideas proven to destroy liberty and centralize power in a dictatorship.
One Of the many times Obama spoke of America's Exceptionalism was when he turned Lybia into a hornets nest.
In Libya, many of his top advisers, including his defense secretary, urged him not to use the U.S. military to protect citizens from attacks by forces loyal to dictator Moammar Gaddafi. The United States didn’t need another war in a country of only peripheral interest. Obama overruled them, citing America’s “indispensable” role.
“Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries,” he said in a speech shortly after the bombing began. “The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.”
Well by not waiting for the images and acting he sped up the slaughter and mass graves because Kaddafi went hard after Islamic extremists and killed 300 .
The death toll continues as the millitia's in Libya
Fight for control. Not to mention the slaughter of Americans at the Benghazi compound.
But this is eye opening over 11,000 have drowned trying to escape the hell hole he created.
Libya's proximity to the Italian island of Lampedusa and the closing of the EU-Turkey border has increased the flow of migrants entering Europe via the Libyan coast.
This year, around 26,886 migrants have crossed to Italy, over 7,000 more than during the same period in 2016. Since 2014, an estimated 11,221 people have drowned while taking the central Mediterranean route.
No mass graves needed when eaten by sharks.
That's the first thing I thought of too. President Obama turned used the phrase a new way, using it to mean the US is an empire or at least the world's police force. It was such a stark juxtaposition for me to hear him talk about American exceptionalism to support that view.
I'm huge fan of NPR, BTW. I do not hold President Obama's statement against any news outlet.
While I used to believe that they're reporting was fairly fact-based, recently the interviews have been so negative, cynical, and passive-aggressive, I'd rather listen to sports talk than NPR. They used to be sensitive about objectivity, but no longer.
Also, one gets tired of pieces about folk music artists in far-away land, that no one gives a #$!*! about.
Enough.