Exceptional villain trashes mediocre President in New York Times op-ed | Human Events

It’s formally entitled \”A Plea for Caution From Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria,\” but Putin spends more time slamming a battered Barack Obama against the lockers and dragging him by his underwear across the high-school gym floor. Putin tells us that a great nation would not have elected such a mediocre leader, so you might as well knock off all that \”American exceptionalism\” stuff before you hurt yourselves:

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is \”what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.\” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.