The Sunshine Empire

I was reading the Corner over at NRO and found this paragraph from Michael Novak’s post almost laughable.

“But “citizen of the world” is a utopian, unreal, angelic, inhuman term, an abstraction of the sort that leads to immense bloodshed as human irregularities are hacked off and angularity is loudly planed away. I agree with Pete Wehner’s observation on Commentary’s website that one can be a citizen of the United States, but not — in anything like the same sense — of the world.  One can enjoy the natural rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, but will not find such rights protected globally, not even in France, as Byron York pointed out last month and again on Friday.”

First off that story is so last week and Michael needs to catch up to the news cycle.  Second if the right is still focusing on a throwaway line to a foreign audience as a defense of John McCain, and a term that has been used by other Presidents, then politically they are screwed.  The focus on the puerile minutia of the campaign as argument for voting one way or another proves the momentum is with the Illinois Senator.  In the same piece he mentions Obama stopping his wearing of the flag pin.  He neglects to mention that in fact Obama has worn a flag pin for the last few months.  John McCain has no worn a flag pin since he clinched the Republican nomination.  You’d never know watching the liberal media.