How the pieces fit...

When Liberalism meets Technology

What Obama says:

“We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72
degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to
say OK,” Obama said.

What Technology gives him the capability to do:

Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and buildings to manage electricity shortages.

Reducing individual customers’ electrical use — if necessary, involuntarily — could avoid that, Dr. Rosenfeld said. "If you can control rotating outages by letting everyone in the state share the pain," he said, "there’s a lot less pain to go around." (NY Times)

The only question remains not if, but when?

But you know what really worries me? The line, "and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."

What this shows us -- with utter and disturbing clarity -- is that if Obama is elected President, he will promptly make us signatories to the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocols, and any number of other collectivist & globalist treaties against which more rational minds have succesfully fought (so far). This will put us under the crushing thumbs of international "governing bodies" like the EU. Remember when Britain signed on under the EU? It required that whenever British law and EU law came into conflict, the EU statutes would always have precedence!

This comment shows Obama for what he really is. Besides being a hard-left "Progressive" and radical racialist, he's also a dyed-in-the-wool globalist. His view that we should be beholden in everything we do -- from how much of what we eat or how warm or cool we choose to keep our homes -- to the whimsy of external foreign viewpoints and pressures is perhaps the single most dangerous aspect of Barak Obama's personal/political worldview.

He will be too easily pulled and manipulated by special interest groups and vocal minorities both within and outside this country. He will let our economic policies, our standard of living, and even our cultural norms and morality be dictated and determined by groups who have shown a long history of hating everything we are, and for which we stand.

We quite simply cannot, as a country, afford to have this man as our president.