Obama Lacks Faith in America
Newt Explains Why American Exceptionalism Matters
A Nation Like No Other With Newt emerging as the leading Republican candidate, his belief that America is exceptional stands in stark contrast to Barack Obama's lack of faith in our great country.

"America is simply the most extraordinary nation in history," says Newt in his book A Nation Like No Other.

"The ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence, and the unique American identity that arose from an American civilization that honored them, form what we call today 'American Exceptionalism,' " continues Newt. "This guiding ethos has always set America apart from all other nations."

Now more than ever, we must remember our Founding Fathers' struggle to create a country in which the individual—not the state—is sovereign. A Nation Like No Other explains exactly what American Exceptionalism is, how it can help us thrive in the twenty-first century, and why America will no longer be a nation like no other if Obama wins in 2012.

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A sample excerpt from A Nation Like No Other is below. Keep reading to learn why American Exceptionalism matters.

From A Nation Like No Other

From its inception, our governing philosophy has been an exception to the practices of governments everywhere else in the world, as detailed by Alexis de Tocqueville and many others.

Embracing freedom at a time when Europe and the rest of the world were mired in monarchies and despotism, we settled the frontier, became the world's foremost advocate of economic freedom, led the world in science and technology, vanquished fascism, won a half-century battle against worldwide Communism, and eventually emerged as the world's sole superpower.

And Americans today still overwhelmingly believe in American Exceptionalism.
A December 2010 Gallup poll asked, "Because of the United States history and its Constitution, do you think the U.S. has a unique character that makes it the greatest country in the world, or don't you think so?" Eighty percent of Americans responded "yes," including 91 percent of Republicans, 77 percent of independents, and 73 percent of Democrats. Only 18 percent answered "no."
However, even while expressing support for the concept of American Exceptionalism, many Americans have forgotten the original ideals represented by that concept, ideals that have animated the ethos of American life throughout our history and have led to America's unprecedented prosperity and global preeminence.

Moreover, there is a determined group of radicals in the United States who outright oppose American Exceptionalism. Often convinced America is a uniquely brutal, racist, and malevolent country, these malcontents struggle to reduce American power and transform our political and economic systems into the kind of statist, socialist model that is now failing across Europe.

American Exceptionalism is being weakened not only by this small, radical group of Americans who actively seek to undermine it, but by this larger group of people who may even vaguely support it, but don't really know what it means or where it came from.

Clouded by this confusion, they acquiesce to policies that inevitably distance our nation from our founding ideals and historic values. As we slowly become more like Europe, with the attendant debt crisis, self-defeating energy policies, suffocation of private enterprise, and stifling bureaucracy that characterize that continent, they can be fooled into believing this trajectory is consistent with America's historic, exceptional nature.

The good news is that America, thanks to our founding creed, is uniquely poised to thrive in the twenty-first century.

Our inherent idealism and generosity, our capitalist spirit, scientific leadership, vociferous defense of individual rights, and penchant for innovation position us to reap amazing benefits from the Information Age, in which scientific, technological, economic, and entrepreneurial dynamism—not government-led industrial planning—will increasingly determine a nation's economic strength.

Yet just at this moment in history, American Exceptionalism is being diminished by growing indifference and concerted attacks against it. Instead of leveraging all our cultural advantages to excel in the new economy, the Obama administration is moving us in the opposite direction.

As the government grows ever larger, ever more bureaucratic, and ever more intrusive in the economy, the ideals and habits underlying American Exceptionalism are being steadily eroded. Work, creativity, and entrepreneurship are rewarded less, while the ability to manipulate the vast bureaucracy, navigate the impenetrable thicket of regulation, and game the byzantine tax code are becoming paramount skills.

This is why, now more than ever, we need to restore the values and habits of American Exceptionalism. The principles of liberty that underlay America's founding point in a dramatically different direction than where we're heading now.

Big Government and an increasingly centralized economy are the antitheses of liberty, which is fundamentally connected to free enterprise, local power, and smaller, more effective, limited government.

Our Founding Fathers understood these ideals and fought for them, just as we, in a different way, must fight for them today.