{"id":3047,"date":"2011-05-18T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2011-05-18T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:56:10","slug":"presidential-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/presidential-exceptionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/05\/obama-as-a-third-culture-kid.html\" target=\"_blank\">reader<\/a> of Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s blog notices that Bam is a post-industrial nomad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wish people would realize that we have a President that was born in  the USA, raised in Asia and multi-cultural Hawaii, and who lived in  Harlem, and went to uppity Harvard and then spent a lot of time in  African-American \u2018hoods.  Oh, and he\u2019s driven up and down the rural  highways of Illinois hundreds of times.  Furthermore, much of his life  was spent in obscurity, so he had to live amongst us normal people  paying back student loans.  Even as a Senator he lived in a run-down  apartment in D.C. This is why I never worried about Obama\u2019s lack of  experience.  All he\u2019s had is experience.    Even Bill Clinton, who  entered into the political upper-class networks by the time he was at  Georgetown, looks provincial and cut-off from real America compared to  this.  Have we ever had a President who has lived in this many American  worlds and cultures and succeeded in all of them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes:\u00a0 Certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/04\/white-house-cosmopolitanism\/\" target=\"_blank\">TR<\/a> and possibly also <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/04\/ol-57-varieties\/\" target=\"_blank\">Herbert Hoover and JFK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader of Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s blog notices that Bam is a post-industrial nomad: I wish people would realize that we have a President that was born in the USA, raised in Asia and multi-cultural Hawaii, and who lived in Harlem, and went to uppity Harvard and then spent a lot of time in African-American \u2018hoods. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization","category-politics","category-post-industrial-nomads","p1","y2011","m05","d18","h09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}