Liberty Maven

Apparently, the United States just elected the world’s first President. That is if you accept the globalist ideas touted in the recent Newsweek article quoted below. As a young adult I traipsed around with a “One World” T-shirt, not knowing the real meaning of such a sentiment. These days my misguided dreams as an 18 year old may become my reality nightmare of middle age now that we all are supposed to bow down before the cult of Barack Obama.

Now, to the rest of the world America’s election is about change but not just at home. Jonathan Freedland, a columnist for The Guardian in London, says the past seven years have been a long, painful public education for the world in the importance of decisions made by the United States. “Two wars and a global financial crisis—those events, at least to some extent, had their origins in decisions taken in Washington.” What’s more, the connection between the world and the occupant of the Oval Office has become deeply personal, says Constanze Stelzenmüller, director of the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund. “In a globalized world,” she says, “America’s president can shape lives worldwide. He is our president, too.“

That would be true, up to a point, of any occupant of the highest office in the United States at a time of American pre-eminence in the world. But with Obama, supported as he is by overwhelming majorities abroad, the connection is stronger than it would be with any other incoming president, the affection more deeply personal and the significance of his election much more intense. “The American president always claims to be the ‘leader of the world,’ and we always hate that arrogance,” says Benchemsi. “Obama can say that, and we have no problem with it.“

Around the globe, in a way that no one else has for half a century, says Oxford University professor of government Vernon Bogdanor, Obama has raised “hopes of a progressive leader who can restore America’s moral leadership.” U.K. Minister of State for Higher Education David Lammy, who has known Obama since 2005 when they met at a Harvard event for black alumni, says “Obama’s movement for change is one that has the potential to go beyond America’s borders, giving him a reach that could be unprecedented for a world leader.“

We must not just combat the coming American version of socialism here in the U.S., but we must fight against it on a global scale. What happens when all of the high minded Jesus-like impossible expectations imposed on Obama don’t come to pass? Obama didn’t look that happy last night to me during and after his victory speech. He looked worried. He should be. He now has the entire world’s weight on his shoulders. The cult of the presidency is now on display with blinding colors.

Read the rest of the article that scares me here.