Is Herman Cain telling the truth?

This debate should thin out the candidate list really quickly! If it does not, then the people need to do it for them!

More Than a Third of Americans Doubt Obama Believes in U.S. ’Exceptionalism’
While 80 percent of Americans think that America ”has a unique character that makes it the greatest country in the world,” more than a third say President Obama does not share that belief, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Dec. 10-12.
Gallup’s poll on the concept often referred to as ”U.S. exceptionalism” says that Americans rank Obama significantly below three other modern presidents in terms of whether Obama subscribes to the idea.
Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed believe he does regard America as exceptional while 37 percent say he doesn’t. Three-quarters of Americans or more say that Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush believed in U.S. exceptionalism.
Unsurprisingly, Republicans do not think Obama believes in the concept by a 61 percent to 34 percent margin. Independents believe he does by a 57 percent to 38 percent margin, as do 83 percent of Democrats.
”Given that Americans already believe that the U.S. is exceptional and that its status as the greatest nation in the world is at risk, Republican election candidates’ political challenges would be to convince voters that Obama’s policies and actions on the world stage are to blame, and that he does not share their values on this issue,” Gallup said.

The Obama Administration: Promises Made, Promises Kept

In the weeks following Republican gains in Congress the left has made much ado about something — just what that something is, though, is up for interpretation. Blaming the Obama Administration for everything from triangulation to compromise to what OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers asked recently: ”Isn’t there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?”

Well, if you were measuring the Obama Administration on the success and implementation of campaign promises I think it would be safe to say we found the ”actual Democratic administration.” Politifact.com, a Pulitzer Prize-winning project of the St. Petersburg Times, has complied a list of over 500 promises made by Obama during the campaign. To date, they have found that the Obama Administration has either completed or is in the process of completing nearly 80 percent of the campaign promises…not bad for what some liberals are considering the lost Democratic administration.

In fact, Obama’s successes have touched on enough facets to make any voting bloc proud, from health care to taxes to foreign policy and energy. In the first two years of his administration, Obama has required insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions and closed the Medicare ”doughnut hole,” fully funded the Veterans Administration, directed military leaders to end the war in Iraq, ended Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, doubled federal spending on clean fuels and provided tax breaks for everything from education to health care.