First TOKM, now Barack...

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama address a mob scene in Portland, Oregon this weekend with these words quoted in the New York Daily News:

"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. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."

His words dovetail the spirit of my last entry. Americans no longer have the luxury of living in a superglobal bubble, where actions aren't accompanied by reactions. Obama will get hammered from the Right for this statement, which smacks of guardian class elitism. Even so, Obama is right on the money.
This is a different world; we are directly connected as human beings in almost every conceivable way. Things no long happen in a vacuum.