American Exceptionalism

Roger Cohen has an editorial in the NYT today that really resonates with me. It's a topic I've been thinking a lot about recently and always seems to become especially apparent during general election years; Cohen calls it "American exceptionalism." In my head, it sounds more like American superiority complex, but that's why Cohen writes for the NYT and I don't. His piece delves briefly into the topic, drawing comparisons between what American exceptionalism means to Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. I think it's a pretty objective analysis, but I'm biased myself, so who knows. But yeah, worth a read.