Russ Feingold: 'It's A Threat To Our Country' To Elect One Of The GOP Presidential Candidates
Russ Feingold: 'It's A Threat To Our Country' To Elect One Of The GOP Presidential Candidates
"To me, the gap between President Obama and these people [the GOP candidates] is so enormous that it's a threat to our country to elect people who take such a silly view of the rest of the world," he told The Huffington Post.
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"They are dumbing down foreign policy to slogans," Feingold said. "Of course, the slogans they use are, 'The president is always apologizing for America,' or, 'Do you or do you not believe in American exceptionalism?' That's what they're offering the country in place of real policy."
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"The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive," writes Feingold, adding, "The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America."
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"The foolishness of constantly shoving the term American exceptionalism in the faces of other peoples of the world seems as obvious as when a child is told by its mother or a teacher that it is not nice to brag and that other people won't like you if you do. ... We are an exceptional nation and I expect we will continue to be the leading nation in the world. But we are less likely to remain in that position if we wake up only briefly from our slumbers to shout, 'We're number one!' and then go back to sleep," he writes.
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