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Romney and American exceptionalism

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Nov 18, 2011.

  1. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I don't believe in American exceptionalism. I just think foreigners aren't nearly as good as us.
     
  2. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Dick,

    It's not a fetish. It's love.

    Seriously... you're not going to draw me into that one. I feel so strongly about it, I won't budge.

    Good luck, though.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    What do you love about it?
     
  4. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    I hate the term. It's nothing more than a highbrow version of he's the salt of the earth.
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Article III - The Judicial Branch Note

    "Section 1 - Judicial powers

    "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

    "Section 2 - Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials

    "The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to Controversies between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

    "In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

    "The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed."

    Uh ...

    Huh?

    What?

    Huh?
     
  6. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Going back to the link...so a 10-year-old Mittens asks his dad a question, and daddy tells his child, “There is nothing as vulnerable as entrenched success.”

    Who talks this way? Especially to his own boy?

    That's pegging my bullshit meter.
     
  7. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    It's also severely outdated.
     
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I believe it. Or, I believe it's at least possible. I think that some really highly educated people do talk that way.
     
  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    To say the least.

    But it wasn't "exceptional" from the moment it hit the morning papers after it was ratified.
     
  10. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    It's not about a plan. It's about how much they hate hate hate (x 1000) "that guy."
     
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