An indignant President Obama complained last week, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead? The oath says to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" — not international law or global diktats.
Case in point: Last week, Obama's State Department handed in America's first-ever report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights. There is a section on "values and immigration," which essentially singles out Arizona's immigration enforcement law as a human rights deficiency "that is being addressed in a court action."
In response, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer rightly blasted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for succumbing to "internationalism run amok."
No one should be surprised, of course, that the Department of Blame America First is prostrating itself before the likes of repressive U.N. Human Rights Council members Libya, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China. No one should be surprised that Obama's globalist panderers couldn't simply keep their mouths shut and refrain from trashing Americans with whom they disagree. [In fact, that is precisely Obama's modus operendi.]
The inclusion of Arizona in a politically correct catalog of human rights and wrongs is more than "downright offensive," as Brewer put it. It's a national travesty. [It is turning on a member of your family: tasteless and distasteful and embarrassing for those who have to witness it.]
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President Obama has a weakness for thinking in categories — compartmentalizing. For someone who provokes swoons among liberals for his great intellect, he has repeatedly evidenced an unsophisticated, one might even say simple-minded, view of the world: Workers good; bosses exploitative. Borrowers good; lenders bad. Patients good; insurance companies bad. Again and again, the president and his spokesmen have justified their expansions of government power as efforts to help those who "through no fault of their own" find themselves in difficulties.
According to that bastion of fairness, CNN.com, some of the criticism of first lady Michelle Obama is driven by white resentment of the “uppity Negro.” 
Obama is a community organizer, a person who, by definition, wants government to do more, not less. Obama rails against the "greed" of capitalism and believes that "at a certain point, you've made enough money." He urges higher taxes on the rich to "spread the wealth." He admits that higher capital gains taxes actually produce less revenue but supports a hike so that the rich pay a higher percentage — a matter of "fairness." He doesn't understand that government subsidization of the housing market — through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Administration and the Community Reinvestment Act — sparked the 
unsustainable run-up in home prices. He ignores the consensus among economists and says, "The American dream … means that we raise the minimum wage not just every 10 years, but all the time."
