Exceptional my patootie

Benjamin R. Barber: We're Number 34!: "American exceptionalism glides complacently into the 21st century on a lie and a prayer. The lie comprises all the flag-waving hyperbole, the exceptionalist claim that 'We're Number One,' when as measured by far too many key indicators we are actually closer to being #10 (social mobility) or maybe #34 (infant mortality) or dead last -- pun intended -- in the percentage of our population we incarcerate."

This just digs deeper that Obama did in his initial critique of the country. GOP does not want to rectify anything that is wrong. It wants to clear a path for corporations to operate at will. These numbers reflect the operation of financial interests serving their owners and investors.

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