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tkmorris

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35. The root word is "exception". It's kinda by definition a zero sum game

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Reply #11)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 11:26 AM

Dec 2015

Just sayin'.

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Do You Believe That America is Exceptional? I Do. [View all] Tom Rinaldo Dec 2015 OP

As exceptional as anybody else! immoderate Dec 2015 #1

If America = Americans them I don't think upaloopa Dec 2015 #2

We're as exceptional as any other western democracy. We exceed in some areas and fall short in a octoberlib Dec 2015 #3

I agree with much of what you say. redwitch Dec 2015 #4

Well said. n/t mountain grammy Dec 2015 #32

I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but... The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2015 #5

I agree with you completely. If we want to be exceptional, we need to stop bullshitting ourselves. Squinch Dec 2015 #8

MLK Jr brilliantly used professed Christian values to shame those who advocated & allowed oppression Tom Rinaldo Dec 2015 #13

Ironic that post 9-11 we of the USA have come to PufPuf23 Dec 2015 #6

An imaginary border prioritizes the imaginary division of people LanternWaste Dec 2015 #7

Few polities have so brazenly and willfully refused to live up hifiguy Dec 2015 #9

Once upon a time. seabeckind Dec 2015 #10

Thank you. I was about to hunt this down. Photographer Dec 2015 #12

Actually I wrote this with non DU'es in mind... Tom Rinaldo Dec 2015 #11

The root word is "exception". It's kinda by definition a zero sum game tkmorris Dec 2015 #35

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Dec 2015 #14

How do you propose that we confront xenophobia effectively outside of our own ranks? n/t Tom Rinaldo Dec 2015 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Dec 2015 #18

I don't disagre with your main point Tom Rinaldo Dec 2015 #19

No lucky is the word. America developed as a new country on a new continent back in the 1600's. craigmatic Dec 2015 #16

Being an American is just as good as being a Mexican, Peruvian, Vietnamese or South African lunatica Dec 2015 #17

I was playing with a concept here of how to reach some on "the other side". Tom Rinaldo Dec 2015 #20

Exceptional what I'm not sure of. hobbit709 Dec 2015 #21

No. I don't. CharlotteVale Dec 2015 #22

I think it used to be. I think it could be again. sibelian Dec 2015 #23

"The world is my country and my religion is to do good.� Thomas Paine Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2015 #24

We're an exceptional mess right now. LuvNewcastle Dec 2015 #25

The text is self contradictory Yorktown Dec 2015 #26

I was born here in the U.S.A., but in hindsight I should have left when I was young and debt free. hunter Dec 2015 #27

I agree with Hunter olddots Dec 2015 #36

Exceptionally greedy, arrogant, and ignorant mwrguy Dec 2015 #28

No I have traveled too many places to know it really isn't Person 2713 Dec 2015 #29

Nope, no rah rah shit for me. I am realistic. Nt Logical Dec 2015 #30

We mostly talk to ourseles here. This is out on Facebook now Tom Rinaldo Dec 2015 #31

No I don't... BooScout Dec 2015 #33

Nope Spider Jerusalem Dec 2015 #34

We were exceptionally lucky to share a nation possessed of incredible resources... Orsino Dec 2015 #37