How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty. John R Bolton

2009 “the first year of global governance, with the establishment of the G-20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step toward the global management of our planet.” Advocates of global governance in the United States are not yet so outspoken in general public discourse, but they believe exactly the same things and say so in their obscure academic journals and debates. They have long been hard at work on this issue, and they almost uniformly supported Barack Obama for president in 2008.

       What Is President Obama’s View on U.S. Sovereignty?

      Barack Obama is our first post-American president - someone who sees his role in foreign policy less as an advocate for America’s “parochial” interests and more as a “citizen of the world,” in his own phrase. He broadly embodies many European social democratic values, including those regarding sovereignty, so it was not surprising that an ecstatic student said after hearing him on one of his first overseas trips, “He sounds like a European.” Indeed he does.

       Barack Obama is our first post-American president - someone who sees his role in foreign policy less as an advocate for America’s “parochial” interests and more as a “citizen of the world,” in his own phrase.

      Understanding Obama’s view of America’s proper role in the world and how it relates to other nations is critical. Strikingly, he neither cares very much about national security issues, nor has he had much relevant professional experience. During the 2008 campaign, he repeatedly contended that the world was not very threatening to U.S. interests, and in his first year in office, other than the usual processionals abroad, he has spent as little time as possible on international issues. His preoccupation with radically restructuring our domestic economy is obvious.

      Obama’s worldview is almost exclusively Wilsonian, as his public statements reveal. In his September 2009 address to the U.N. General Assembly, for example, Obama said: