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Welcome to the “post-American era”! We now have a president that doesn’t believe that America is any different than a 190 other countries in the world. So much for the idea of American exceptionalism. Obama’s thoughts on the issue are fleshed out In an article by Mark Steyn:

“…100 days into a new presidency, Barack Obama is giving strong signals to the world that we have entered what Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post calls “the post-American era.” At the time of Gordon Brown’s visit to Washington, London took umbrage at an Obama official’s off-the-record sneer to a Fleet Street reporter that “there’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.”

Andy McCarthy of National Review made the sharp observation that, never mind the British, this was how the administration felt about their own country, too: America is just the same as the other 190 countries in the world.

In Europe, the president was asked if he believed in “American exceptionalism,” and replied: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
Gee, thanks. A simple “no” would have sufficed. The president of the United States is telling us that American exceptionalism is no more than national chauvinism, a bit of flag-waving,…”

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Steyn winds up asking who in Obama’s “post-American era” does the baton get passed to now?

Since January, President Obama and his team have reached out to all of American enemies while offending or giving short shrift to allies in almost every corner of the globe. Our friends have to be asking themselves whether it really pays to stand with America anymore.

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