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	<title>The Immanent Frame &#187; Thomas L. Dumm</title>
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	<description>Secularism, religion, and the public sphere</description>
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		<title>Obama and the end of exceptionalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas L. Dumm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["These things are old"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presidents are compelled to use the language of exceptionalism in two important ways. If our presidents are to be believed, we are always doing something New and something Great. We have had, in the past eighty years, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society, the New Nixon, Morning in America, A Thousand Points of Light, a New Covenant, a Bridge to Tomorrow, and Compassionate Conservatism, and now we have a New Foundation. These slogans are made to do a lot of work, in that they suggest another word that became the brand of the Obama campaign last year: change.]]></description>
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