Barack Obama, citizen of the world, speaking to the 58th state of Germany, declared his foreign policy credentials today to us all.  Early polls say that Berlin will likely go Obama in November.  I hear MSNBC is going to pad their next poll accordingly.  Chris Matthews is already practicing his technique. Keith Olbermann has patented a Barack Obama blow-up doll. The New York Times is planning a scratch-and-sniff edition.

There is a divide, not between the civilized West and the Islamist and doctrinal East, but between America and Europe, according to Barack Obama. He is a dangerous, clueless, ill-equipped blusterer.

Barack Obama has pitched a world view that subserviates the American culture, economy, and her values, to the less-accomplished, aged countries that drag down the European Union.

Get this, folks – especially you Obama supporters. The European “way” is in no fashion, by any measure, superior.

It is worth recalling that our country, in fact her very essence, was created and founded upon a desire to be most unlike Europe. We established no royalty. Our Founders, brilliant by any historical standard, engenderd the world’s first successful, long functioning democratic republic, fashioned inapposite to every tradition stemming from the history of the Old World. Our brilliance is in our leadership, our entrepreneurialism, and our desire to exceed the limitations imposed by the culture we escaped. That is our gift to them, to the world. Any man who desires the presidency must realize that, and ultimately, must accept it with every fiber of his being. If not, he is unfit to hold the office.

Indeed, and contrary to this requirement, Barack Obama wants to rescind that promise to our future. His position is that we must reapproach the Europeans, and become more like them. He has not learned even the most fundamental truths underpinning the founding of our country.  His world view sells America’s founding principles out on the self-esteem auction block. We must be liked. Feelings matter. Waa, waa, we must be popular. Buy a cool car. Outfit the cabinet at Hot Topic. Do whatever it takes to be loved. One would think the constitutional minimum age requirement of 35 years to be president would get us past a lot of that. Apparently, the only thing Obama needs to do now is sport some baggy pants.

No, the reality is that the United States must be respected, revered, and, if necessary, feared.  No great president has ever executed the office otherwise (and my apologies to the Clinton apologists, he was not a great president).  Obama is not of this mold. He is an apologist for his country, more in the mold of Jimmy Carter than John Kennedy. John McCain is right – Barack Obama wants to win this campaign more than he wants to win any war. The only victory he seems okay with is the vanquishment of the spirit of the country he seeks to lead.