Obama hopefully knows all this, but his egalitarian agenda requires that we must first hate all walls and boundaries. The distinctions between citizen and alien is included in his list of barriers to be torn down, which makes sense if our first loyalty is to planet earth, not to that old piece of parchment, the United States Constitution.
Obama’s agenda is not only unabashedly socialist but global in scope, a deadly combination not only for any sensible foreign policy but for the American taxpayer as well. Obama lumps economic inequalities and national identity into the same pot with racism and religious intolerance as things that must be overcome, walls that must be torn down. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty aimed at the Dust Bowl and lost jobs, then at Appalachia and Detroit, but for Obama, America must take responsibility for ending poverty, disease and discrimination in all of Africa and Asia. He is also willing to sacrifice our economy to global regulation to lower carbon dioxide levels in Shanghai, Cairo and Budapest.
Probably Israelis and Arabs will not worry much about Obama's utopian dreams, but for Americans, the alarm bells are ringing. The potential mischief embodied in Obama's globalism makes Bush's foreign policy look isolationist by comparison.
Americans under 30 have no memory of the Berlin Wall or the Cold War and thus are not affronted by Obama's misreading of the lessons of 20th Century history. But young Americans who care about the government's growing appetite for dollars taken from their paychecks should ponder whether we can afford to have one of our own as the President of the World.