Open Thread

November 19th, 2009 9:44 AM

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: European lefties are slowly realizing that Obama is, well, American.

Barack Obama cast himself as a "citizen of the world" when he delivered his well-received campaign speech in Berlin in the summer of 2008. But the US president has now betrayed this claim. In his Berlin speech, he was dishonest with Europe. Since then, Obama has neglected the single most important issue for an American president who likes to imagine himself as a world citizen, namely, his country's addiction to fossil fuels and the risks of unchecked climate change...
Obama has proven himself to be unable to put an end to the lies that modern American society is based on.

An American president serving American interests? We're all doomed.