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Talk about america's being exceptional and i was curious to see if he would put that in somewhere. this is a speech about common purpose and defining america and that's -- this is a word that is -- that has a lot of meaning for a lot of people in this country because i think most americans really think we're exception exceptional. there are shades of meaning within different groups, the shining hill, you know, sitting on the hill, is it god's country, is it one thing or another? but conservatives feel very strongly that the president needs to declare himself and so i think the white house can ...

In the middle of a war. i want to follow up on what suzanne was talking about. everyone says it will boil down to this essential issue -- the man, general mcchrystal, versus the need to win in afghanistan. the absolute imperative to be successful there because so many tens of thousands of troops have been sent. so, think of it this way. people say the first thing on the table really is, is general mcchrystal the only guy who can do the job? he was put in because defense secretary robert gates said yes. but now we don't really know what gates thinks about all of this. the timetable in afghanist...