1.0 link 107270 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marshall-grossman/electing-america-obama-th_b_107270.html The nomination of an African-American candidate for president is a very big deal. It reminds us that there are really two distinct kinds of American exceptionalism. This phrase is often used to describe the conviction or sense that America is a unique agent in and of world history, a special nation, different from all others and endowed -- perhaps supernaturally -- with a manifest destiny. The less pleasant side of this exceptionalism has been to authorize violence in the name...

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