THE GREAT EQUIVOCATOR: “I think that, you know, as president I bear responsibility for everything, to some degree,” Obama told CBS’s Sixty Minutes on Sunday night.

In much the same way, presumably that, as Mr. Obama said in early 2009, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

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