COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post

COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post: Exceptionalism is alive

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=121975

The concept of “American exceptionalism” is alive but struggling now. Fresh from our past Memorial Day weekend, the uptick in patriotic fervor was welcome, but I know that this will dissipate with the summer heat, as America wrestles with economic despair.

Alexis de Tocqueville is generally credited with the above phrase that he used to describe our uniquely born nation. Americans are different from our counterparts on the other continents. Our spirit and ideology can be construed as a sort of global arrogance, but we were founded with liberty and rugged individualism as our best markers.

Originally, with vast lands for farming, mineral richness, and the natural protection of the Atlantic and Pacific, we were born to win as a nation, become strong, and eventually out-compete all other nations on Earth economically……  http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=121975

COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post

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