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Whatever Obama's vision of America is, it is certainly different from the vision we've strived to achieve over the last two centuries. Until now, America has been the place where individual freedom encourages people to accomplish the impossible, to produce prosperity, to defend the helpless, and to help the needy. America's might was developed to defend freedom and has been used only to liberate people from abuse by dictatorial governments.

This practice and posture needs no apology - to anyone!

Obama's vision appears to be integration of the United States into the community of nations under the rule of global governance administered by the United Nations. His willingness to readily accept the G20's call for a global Financial Stability Board and his eagerness to embrace the United Nation's global warming remedy -- whatever it may turn out to be - and his continuing apologies for America's failure to do these things in the past - are all evidence of an Obama vision of America that is not American.

America is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but we do not need an "international community" to tell us how to perfect it. A free people, in pursuit of individual happiness, served by a government whose first responsibility is to protect the rights endowed by the Creator to all its citizens constitute a self-correcting society.

A society shackled by a domineering government that seeks to manage the affairs of individuals and markets is not self correcting. It is self-condemning and its only hope of survival is the goodwill of its international neighbors.

This nation has been successful, and can be again, following the same formula that brings success to individuals: righteousness, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency, charity, curiosity, and industry. A nation full of people following this formula must succeed.

A nation whose individuals are denigrated for their belief in God; whose government discourages individual responsibility by progressive taxation and government handouts; who prefer the proceeds of another's wealth, rather than working to achieve self-sufficiency; who confuse lust with love; and who are as lazy intellectually as they are physically; cannot succeed.

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Henry Lamb is the author of "The Rise of Global Governance," Chairman of Sovereignty International , and founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) and Freedom21, Inc..

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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