Posted on 10/01/2012 3:24:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
Former presidential candidate and successful CEO Herman Cain participated in a jobs forum at the University of Michigan last week. During his presentation, Cain told several hundred students that they'll enjoy at least one significant advantage when the enter the job market, triggering an interesting response from a handful of hecklers:
Cain: "This is the greatest country in the world."
Students: "Not," "It's not!"
The rest of the audience gasped, booed, and a few chanted "U-S-A." Cain then launched into an epic impromptu monologue about the greatness of America -- her liberties, her prosperity, her military strength, and her opportunities -- bringing the crowd to its feet. Pure awesome:
"If this is not the greatest country in the world, leave!"
For more data and perspective on America's singular exceptionalism on the landscape of world history, read this, this, this and this. It's also interesting to note which end of our domestic political spectrum spends the most energy informing their fellow Americans that our nation really isn't all that great: Entitled undergraduates (see above), the ranting, fictional "news" anchors, as imagined by Hollywood, sanctimonious blowhards and fawning Sinophiles at the New York Times, and, at times, even the President of the United States. I can think of no more eloquent recent paean to America's exceptional greatness than Condoleezza Rice's address at the Republican National Convention (17:25 for a highlight):
This thread? ROTFLMAO
You're taking delusional narcissism to a whole new level.
Ronald Reagan was, however, a lifelong Conservative. I”m apply two conditions here and you can’t get around it. Out of the other 16 you simply cannot find another lifelong Conservative Republican in the bunch.
RR was a strong supporter of FDR.
Santorum was as conservative as any man.
What people believe at 18 or 20 is pretty irrelevant.
I'll see your narcissism and raise you an obtuseness.
On the other hand with the easiest to win election in a generation, the GOP-e decided they didn't need to run a serious campaign, and they aren't.
Back to the point, there were only three lifelong Conservative Republicans among the 16 candidates officially running for President as a Republican.
FOUR WORDS ~ "THREE" "LIFELONG" "CONSERVATIVE" "REPUBLICANS"
From the moment of birth, eh?
Someday I”m sure you’ll wake up and realize you are a something ~ probablynot a Republican but a something and then you’ll understand what that means.
Yes, you were raised on obtuseness alrighty!
Bachman, Santorum, Newt and Perry are as fine examples of conservatives as there are in the country. That is all that is important about this. Any of these people would be infinitely better than the P.O.S. in the White House. Anyone in that primary would be. Just about any man off the street would be.
Do they meet your standard of LLC? I don’t give a sheet.
I resist all Evil, except when I don’t.
You capitalize the word evil?
When I feel like it.
Bachmann and Perry don’t.
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