These refelections on the weeks events from Victor David Hansen, smartest guy in any room, anytime, with whom it appears I share a less than situational form of patriotism.  So I guess that makes me a Jacksonian, will have to read up on that......
An uneasy feeling.

And Jonah Goldberg, no slouch, echoes notions of Amercan exceptionalism with a couple of well aimed barbs at our European friends...
What Obama Brings to Conservatives

And Rush fleshes out how rooting for Obama's success is rooting for America's failure
LIMBAUGH: I WANT OBAMA TO FAIL IF POLICIES ARE SOCIALIST...

All sober, cogent, non-hyperventilating yet opposing analysis, a break from the non-stop cheerleading from the lamestream press.