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csl,

This one is for you (see below). I think there's a certain amount of legitimacy to the critique. I particularly liked the paragraph about the New Jerusalem.

I suspect that what the rest of the world wants is an America which is a leading participant in the conversation, but also one that has respect for other ways of being. The United States system is not THE answer. It is AN answer to the ideals of a West which has been fighting for its liberties for millenia. And out of which the US sprung.

Every now and again, I hope there will appear a US President who plainly reveres Pericles and the Athenian invention of the ideas of democracy and freedom, Magna Carta, the common law, Galileo, Locke and the Enlightenment, Smith and Darwin and their ideas of society and change (to list but a few important actors) every bit as much as they revere Washington, Jefferson, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, Lincoln and King.

I'm not sure Obama gets past the "Not Invented Here" phenomenon which somewhat limits the scope of the vision he outlines.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-obama-must-beware-of-turning-into-a-cult-787298.html