Does Obama Think He’s Running for President of the U.S., or Ruler of the World?

According to a press release on Senator Obama’s website:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) today hailed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s passage of the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), which requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive policy to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief, and coordination with the international community, businesses and NGOs. This legislation was introduced in December. Smith and Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sponsored the House version of the bill (H.R. 1302), which passed the House last September.

“With billions of people living on just dollars a day around the world, global poverty remains one of the greatest challenges and tragedies the international community faces,” said Senator Obama. “It must be a priority of American foreign policy to commit to eliminating extreme poverty and ensuring every child has food, shelter, and clean drinking water. As we strive to rebuild America’s standing in the world, this important bill will demonstrate our promise and commitment to those in the developing world. Our commitment to the global economy must extend beyond trade agreements that are more about increasing corporate profits than about helping workers and small farmers everywhere. I commend Chairman Biden and Ranking Member Lugar for supporting this bill and moving it forward quickly.” (more)

During his campaign, Obama has demostrated an affinity with socialist and communist countries in Latin America. Although he has adamantly denied being a Muslim, and insisted that he is now a Christian, he has used his culturally-rich heritage as a campaign asset, bragging that he can relate to both Africans and Muslims on a cultural level. Following is a report by the Toronto Star, relating a campaign moment in Manassas, VA:

The most poignant moment of the day, however, came when he tried to sell the woman from Hawaii on his candidacy over Clinton’s, bringing her 9-year-old son up on stage.

He spoke of his birth in Hawaii, to a Kansas mother and a Kenyan father, as well as his childhood time spent in Indonesia.

Her son, one day, will look at America’s 44th president and think, “hey, he’s got a funny name like me,” Obama said.

He said he would change the perception of the presidency in the U.S., but also the perception of America in the world because when he travels to Africa, he would have credibility not just because he knows the leaders, but he knows the people. And when he travels to Muslim countries, he could say he knows the leaders but also the culture of the Muslim nations he visits.

[No word, yet, on how he intends to keep his head on his shoulders as an apostate in those Muslim nations he vistis.]

Obama sounds more like an old-time revival tent preacher than a politician when he is campaigning, espousing over and over his message of “hope.” It seems to me, however, that the “hope,” he has is for somewhere other than the United States.

Also see: Obama’s Poverty Bill