Why is America the best country in the world?

I don't see any point about arguing what the best country is because everyone has a different criterion for "best". Newsroom looks like an interesting show, however. Thanks for sharing.

I think the whole point of the speech is that the US isn't the best by ANY of all those different criteria. It doesn't promote an analytical debate into the nature of something that is (whether or not the US is the best), but rather show what that something is not, so that it strives to be. Now it doesn't really matter if we actually get to be the "best" in your light, because in striving to be so, we'll achieve a lot of things along the way.