An indignant President Obama complained last week I cant 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 kowtowing commander-in-chief is in dire need of a daily reminder that his job is to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States -- not international law or global diktats.
Case in point: Last week Obamas State Department handed in Americas first-ever report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights in conjunction with something called the Universal Periodic Review. In short the 29-page document is a self-aggrandizing report card touting the administrations far-left domestic and foreign policy initiatives for the worlds approval.
The report boasts of racial- and gender-bean-counting in the executive branch; Justice Department outreach to Muslim grievance groups opposed to post-9/11 security measures; teachers union payoffs in the federal stimulus law; continuing commitment to closing the Gitmo detention facility for enemy combatants; and the illusory lifesaving effects of Obamacare on minorities through expanding community health centers (which have yet to be built but not that it matters in our Nobel Peace Prize-winning presidents age of post-achievement).
The report also includes a section on values and immigration which essentially singles out Arizonas 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. Brewer pointed out in a letter to Clinton Human rights as guaranteed by the United States and Arizona Constitutions are expressly protected in S.B. 1070 and defended vigorously by my Administration. In fact the Department of Justice has correctly not included these so-called human rights issues in the current litigation against the State of Arizona. Somehow that inconvenient detail escaped the Foggy Bottom bureaucrats notice.
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 Obamas globalist panderers couldnt simply keep their mouths shut and refrain from trashing Americans with whom they disagree. In May youll recall Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner preemptively trashed our countrys human rights record to Chinese government officials and humiliated Arizonans -- and all Americans -- who support states rights to protect their borders and enhance their security through strict immigration enforcement. An obsequious Posner called S.B. 1070 a troubling trend in our society in his bow-and-scrape conversations with the ChiComs.
The inclusion of Arizona in a politically correct catalogue of human rights and wrongs is more than downright offensive as Brewer put it. Its a national travesty. In the very same Obama administration document the State Department praises the administration for its robust protections for freedom of expression. The report notes sanctimoniously: As a general matter the government does not punish or penalize those who peacefully express their views in the public sphere even when those views are critical of the government. Indeed dissent is a valuable and valued part of our politics.
Yeah? Tell that to the Democratic members of Congress leading the punitive economic boycott and political demonization of Arizona. Or to Attorney General Eric Holder who rushed to attack S.B. 1070 before he had even read it. Fresh off this U.N. mess Holders Social Justice Department has launched yet another vendetta against Arizona. On Monday DOJ filed suit against Phoenix-area community colleges because they imposed strict citizenship screening of potential employees.
As Obama throws America under the bus for the cause of open borders the shady U.N. human rights police must be laughing their jackboots off.
Michelle Malkin makes news and waves with a unique combination of investigative journalism and incisive commentary. She is the author of Culture of Corruption.
An indignant President Obama complained last week I cant 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 kowtowing commander-in-chief is in dire need of a daily reminder that his job is to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States -- not international law or global diktats.
Case in point: Last week Obamas State Department handed in Americas first-ever report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights in conjunction with something called the Universal Periodic Review. In short the 29-page document is a self-aggrandizing report card touting the administrations far-left domestic and foreign policy initiatives for the worlds approval.
The report boasts of racial- and gender-bean-counting in the executive branch; Justice Department outreach to Muslim grievance groups opposed to post-9/11 security measures; teachers union payoffs in the federal stimulus law; continuing commitment to closing the Gitmo detention facility for enemy combatants; and the illusory lifesaving effects of Obamacare on minorities through expanding community health centers (which have yet to be built but not that it matters in our Nobel Peace Prize-winning presidents age of post-achievement).
The report also includes a section on values and immigration which essentially singles out Arizonas 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. Brewer pointed out in a letter to Clinton Human rights as guaranteed by the United States and Arizona Constitutions are expressly protected in S.B. 1070 and defended vigorously by my Administration. In fact the Department of Justice has correctly not included these so-called human rights issues in the current litigation against the State of Arizona. Somehow that inconvenient detail escaped the Foggy Bottom bureaucrats notice.
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 Obamas globalist panderers couldnt simply keep their mouths shut and refrain from trashing Americans with whom they disagree. In May youll recall Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner preemptively trashed our countrys human rights record to Chinese government officials and humiliated Arizonans -- and all Americans -- who support states rights to protect their borders and enhance their security through strict immigration enforcement. An obsequious Posner called S.B. 1070 a troubling trend in our society in his bow-and-scrape conversations with the ChiComs.
The inclusion of Arizona in a politically correct catalogue of human rights and wrongs is more than downright offensive as Brewer put it. Its a national travesty. In the very same Obama administration document the State Department praises the administration for its robust protections for freedom of expression. The report notes sanctimoniously: As a general matter the government does not punish or penalize those who peacefully express their views in the public sphere even when those views are critical of the government. Indeed dissent is a valuable and valued part of our politics.
Yeah? Tell that to the Democratic members of Congress leading the punitive economic boycott and political demonization of Arizona. Or to Attorney General Eric Holder who rushed to attack S.B. 1070 before he had even read it. Fresh off this U.N. mess Holders Social Justice Department has launched yet another vendetta against Arizona. On Monday DOJ filed suit against Phoenix-area community colleges because they imposed strict citizenship screening of potential employees.
As Obama throws America under the bus for the cause of open borders the shady U.N. human rights police must be laughing their jackboots off.
Michelle Malkin makes news and waves with a unique combination of investigative journalism and incisive commentary. She is the author of Culture of Corruption.
