Those of you who managed to stay awake during Barack Obama’s “A World that Stands as One” speech know how utterly stuporous liberal platitudes are. Germans unenthusiastically applauded prattle such as “there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one,” or “these now are the walls we must tear down.” Barack’s speechwriters dredged up every left-leaning banality in the book: “a continent came together,” “cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic,” “advance our common humanity,” and “a global commitment to progress,” to highlight a merciful few. The biggest cheer was reserved for Barack’s conclusion, proving Germans are not dummies. The speech is worth reading, however, because Senator Obama revealed enough of the change he has in mind to scare American voters into lining up for John McCain. It was that alarming.
Never mind that Obama professed to be speaking as “a citizen” and not a presidential candidate, a dissimulation betrayed by the entire speech. Never mind that Barack brought up his color less than two minutes into his talk. Never mind that the core illustration of Obama’s message — the dismantling of the Berlin Wall — was repeatedly mentioned without ever acknowledging the man most responsible for Germany’s reunification, Ronald Reagan. The many troubling oversights, exaggerations, and embarrassing pandering pale next to Barack Obama’s most glaring flaw: he regards himself as a citizen of the world.
Referenced more than his American citizenship, Barack’s fascination with World Citizenship does not bode well for American business, nor American taxpayers, nor the American military. If you think President Bush has stretched our fighting forces to the limit or spent too liberally, sit down now:
“Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become he heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all…. None of us can deny these threats, or escape responsibility in meeting them.”
No corner of the world will be outside our reach with Obama at the helm:
“Now the world will watch and remember what we do here — what we do with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time?”
If we try to accomplish these Herculean tasks, it will be the American taxpayer who finances the effort. Wrap your mind around this. Bangladesh has a population estimated to be between 142 and 159 million. “Most Bangladeshis are rural, living on subsistence farming. Health problems abound, ranging from surface water contamination, to arsenic contamination of groundwater, and diseases including malaria, leptospirosis and dengue,” according to the 2005 Human Development Report. Throw in a corrupt, inefficient government, a literacy rate hovering around 41%, and a birth rate among the planet’s highest and voila, you have a black hole waiting to consume as many dollars as we care to throw away. “Lift [every] child in Bangladesh from poverty?” Read: “Liberal compassion at your expense changing nothing.”
But Barack is far from through:
“This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan…No one welcomes war. I recognize the enormous difficulties in Afghanistan. But my country and yours have a stake in seeing the NATO’s first mission beyond Europe’s borders is a success…The Afghan people need our troops and your troops; our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, to develop their economy [emphasis added], and help them rebuild their nation.”
Ignoring General Patraeus’ assessment that the central front on the war on terror is Iraq, Obama will at great peril abandon that effort but redouble our commitment in Afghanistan. Europe’s pathetic armed forces will “share” a pitifully small portion of the Afghan struggle, the brunt of which will fall on American forces and American taxpayers.
But wait, there’s more:
“This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. Together, we must forge trade that truly rewards the work that creates wealth, with meaningful protections for our people and our planet. This is the moment for trade that is free and fair for all.”
The foregoing is liberal-speak for “reward the incompetent and uncompetitive, punish the productive, restrict the American economy with developing-nation-favoring Global Warming legislation, and concentrate on equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity.” It’s a formula for economic disaster and should be rejected wholeheartedly. Thanks for the heads-up, Mr. Obama.
Our next president, and every president, must act in America’s best interest. He or she must be solely committed to the protection of liberty and the promotion of prosperity for Americans. Americans elect presidents, pay their salaries, and expect in return to have a president who will look out for America, period. Such a view does not exclude “all foreign entanglements,” but does eschew all notions of sacrificing American security or prosperity in support of nations and peoples who are unwilling to improve their own lives. We need a president who will pointedly refuse to be a citizen of the world. If Obama wants to be President of the World, let him run for that office. We’ll take another Teddy Roosevelt, who said in 1907:
“We have room for but one flag, the American flag…We have room for but one language here, and that is English language…and we have room but for one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Therein is the great deficiency in the Democrat’s presumptive nominee, and the main reason John McCain must win in November.
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy in Campaign 2008, Politics, Video