Thursday, August 07, 2008

A Citizen of the world?

During his recent speech in Berlin, Barack Obama tried to ingratiate himself to the foreign crowd by claiming loudly that he was “a citizen of the world.” The problem is that Obama’s self-proclaimed global “citizenship” appears to go way beyond just a rhetorical device to gain favor with a European throng full of pie-in-the-sky utopians.
It seems that the Democrats’ would-be president of the United States of America believes that the rest of the world’s problems are more important than the interests of Americans, especially when it comes to how we live our lives and determine where our money is spent. While attempting to garner the support of his party’s leftist base, Obama proclaimed, "we can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."
And now he’s putting your money where his mouth is. A bill he has sponsored in the U.S. Senate, the "so-called" Global Poverty Act (S. 2433), would raise the amount of American tax dollars allocated to the United Nations’ redistribution efforts to $845 billion. That’s $2,500 from every American taxpayer. He is doing this at a time when many of the citizens of the United States are already struggling just to make ends meet.
And if you think taxes and energy costs are high now, wait until Obama’s global energy and production taxes are made law by the Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid-run Democrat Congress. Is this what Pelosi meant when she said, "I’m trying to save the planet! I’m trying to save the planet!"?
Senator Obama and the Democrats don’t seem to understand that American prosperity is a result of the hard work of American citizens in a free market economy. The American people are already the most generous in the world when it comes to global aid.
Help us show Barack Obama that Americans don’t need foreign approval to lead their lives as they see fit, and that he ought to remember that he is running for president of the United States, not of the World. Make a contribution today to provide Republican candidates with the resources they urgently need to tell voters about the Obama Democrats’ "plans" for America. The future of America, with a government makes its own citizens its first priority, may depend on it.

Sincerely,

Robert M. "Mike" Duncan
Chairman, Republican National Committee

P.S. Powerful leftist forces will spend whatever it takes to elect Barack Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket to force their radical utopian agenda on America. Help us make sure they don’t succeed by making a contribution of whatever amount you can afford to the RNC today. Thank you.

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