Obama's Imperfect Union

After Rudy Giuliani challenged President Obama's patriotism and love of country, I wrote that the former New York mayor--while wrong--touched on "a real difference between Obama's brand of national exceptionalism and the kind we tend to see from America's presidents." Like his predecessors, Obama holds the United States as a place of exceptional ideals and aspirations, but he tempers his vision with civic humility and an awareness of American injustice. For those unaccustomed to this approach, i...