House Speaker John Boehner was asked yesterday why President Obama didn’t mention the notion of “American exceptionalism” in his State of the Union address. Boehner replied: “You can’t get the left to talk about it. They don’t — they reject that notion.”Boehner was on CNN’s Parker Spitzer, and Kathleen Parker asked him about the speech: “But I didn’t hear him say it and I thought at a time when you’re building a speech around sort of defining the common purpose of America, that seemed to me a rather — you know, a simple direct line, fairly — pretty much a no-brainer, but he didn’t say it.”
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