{"id":152,"date":"2006-08-10T09:18:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/08\/10\/american-exceptionalism\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T13:23:08","slug":"american-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/08\/10\/american-exceptionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"American Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">By <strong>MICHAEL BARONE, WSJ, <\/strong>August 10, 2006; Page A8<\/span><br \/>\n&#8230; In 2004, pollster Scott Rasmussen asked two questions relating to American exceptionalism: Is this country generally fair and decent? Would the world be better off if more countries were more like America? About two-thirds of voters answered yes to both questions. About 80% of George W. Bush voters answered yes. John Kerry voters were split down the middle, with yeses outnumbering nos by small margins. That&#8217;s reminiscent of the story about the Teamster Union business agent who was in the hospital and received a bouquet of flowers with a note that read, &#8220;The executive board wishes you a speedy recovery by a vote of 9-6.&#8221; Not exactly a wholehearted endorsement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB115515847647431384.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB115515847647431384.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB115515847647431384.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MICHAEL BARONE, WSJ, August 10, 2006; Page A8 &#8230; In 2004, pollster Scott Rasmussen asked two questions relating to American exceptionalism: Is this country generally fair and decent? Would the world be better off if more countries were more like America? About two-thirds of voters answered yes to both questions. About 80% of George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}