or dot com or one stone.
There is no rejoicing in the FOX and the Badger** events, or Beck's* and Walker's travails.
* see FOX under "up"
**recall/recounts
[nor one flock]
[PAST THREE POSTS: Postal and back again.]
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Friday April 08, 2011
[The Test of Post Links or Leaps.(See under stone above)]
[To parse later: "the world's best hope"..."idealists and pragmatists"..."that the world would improve"..."dissipated in the Romantic"..."secular missionaries"..."the imperial age"..."continued to enlarge". "These then are the antecedents." "Does the U.S. indeed occupy..." "Is it merely our superior military..."
It is unfortunate that the political discourse these days dictates that you can't love your country if you don't believe in its exceptionalism. Such oversimplification is one of the reasons why national campaigns focus on symbolic language instead of substantive problems and the alternative plans candidates propose to resolve them sensibly.
Exceptionalism seems to mean, "We lead, others follow." Instead, let's try: In spite of our commanding power, we lead judiciously by consulting with allies and seeking widely agreed-upon solutions to international crises. Can't America be unique among nations without dictating? That seems to be the true articulation of President Obama’s view of the contested term
speaking of one beak]
[Drawing the line.]
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