  American Exceptionalism   declaration-of-independenceThat view
contrasts sharply with our 44th President’s perspective, when he
said at the NATO Summit in Strasbourg, France in 2009, “I
believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the
Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe
in Greek exceptionalism.”  Contrary to what some erroneously
assume, American exceptionalism is not some obtuse reference to
Americans being any better than anyone else in the world. It
doesn’t mean that our products are somehow superior, or that
we’re any more erudite than the inhabitants of any other
country. It simply means that, as a nation, America was
exceptional in how it was founded and the precepts upon which it
was based are unique and unparalleled in all of human history.
That is historical fact, and American exceptionalism defined.
It is unique and exceptional that this nation was established
according to declared inalienable individual rights of life,
liberty, and property, or the pursui