“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.” Barack Obama 7–24-08.

Is anyone else completely sick and tired of this “citizen of the world” garbage. Look, I’m in the world but I’m certainly not a citizen of the world. If I was I wouldn’t know who to root for in the Olympics next month.

Hey, at least he’s a citizen of this world. We’re still trying to figure out where Dennis Kucinich came from.

But I wonder if by declaring himself a citizen of the world is Obama therefore renouncing his American citizenship making him ineligible for the Presidency. I’m being half-serious here in that I wonder if he feels that an Obama Presidency (shudder) might be responsible more to the entire world than to America. Because when someone declares themselves a citizen of the world what they’re really saying is that they want to be liked by hoity-toity Europeans.