{"id":16354,"date":"2008-07-25T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16320.html"},"modified":"2008-07-25T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:14:09","slug":"more-on-a-citizen-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/more-on-a-citizen-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"More on A Citizen of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Ron Chusid<\/a><\/p>\n

Steve M. has beaten me to commenting on one item <\/a>I was thinking about writing on so I will keep this brief. As he mentioned, John McCain<\/a> was critical of Barack Obama\u2019s statement in his speech in Germany<\/a> where he referred to himself as a citizen of the world. As Steve M. also pointed out, George Bush has used the phrase \u201ccitizen of the world\u201d in a favorable context, and he is not alone in doing so<\/a>. Even Ronald Reagan<\/a> has done so.<\/p>\n

While Steve has handled this issue well, there are two points I\u2019d like to add. The implication in many of the attacks on Obama from the right over this is that being a citizen of the world means he is somehow not a loyal American. They tend to ignore the fact that Obama said, \u201cI come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.\u201d I bet not many right wingers will repeat Obama\u2019s statement of being \u201ca proud citizen of the United states.\u201d That won\u2019t fit in well with the meme that he is really a Muslim terrorist and a Manchurian candidate.<\/p>\n

While many liberal bloggers have defended Obama, I most enjoyed a defense of Obama on this point from a libertarian blogger. (Unfortunately he weakened his post by making a derogatory comment on John Kerry\u2019s reference to a \u201cglobal test\u201d which was twisted to mean something quite different from what was intended.) David Weigle of Reason<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n

He declared himself a citizen of the U.S. and the world<\/em>, smart guys. Is John McCain not a citizen of the world? When his map reaches the Atlantic Ocean, does it turn white and read \u201cHere There Be Dragons\u201d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps. My fear is that McCain\u2019s map of the world is made up of lots of places marked \u201cplaces to bomb.\u201d That includes a huge arrow pointed at Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Cross posted from Liberal Values<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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