In reply to my brother Armstrong Williams, it is the right that is at war with American exceptionalism and President Obama who correctly quotes Scripture in favor of helping those in need and correctly quotes patriots in favor of an America in which we are all in this together. It is not American exceptionalism to ask young people to die in war while asking the most wealthy to bathe in the luxury of tax cuts. It is not American exceptionalism to insult women with talk of legitimate rape, to insult capitalism with excuses for women being paid less than men, or to quote the church in support of cutting programs that help the poor, as the Republican nominee for vice president did before being reprimanded by many who wear the cloth.

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