Rightbloggers do foreign policy as Obama “Attacks U.S.” at the U.N.

Roy Edroso’s Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.

Over the nine months of his Presidency, Obama has taken fewer hits

from rightbloggers on foreign than on domestic issues. For one thing,

despite a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq, he hasn’t changed much from

the Bush era (to the sorrow of some liberals) except, to some extent, our policy on torture; for another, it doesn’t have much to do with rightbloggers’ vision of Obama as a new Hitler. Also, foreign policy is hard.

But in Obama’s speech at the United Nations last week,

the President sunnily praised the U.N.’s mission, and said that though

“my responsibility is to act in the interest of my nation and my

people, and I will never apologize for defending those interests,” the

U.S. would “embrace a new era of engagement based on mutual interest

and mutual respect,” even with its enemies. As this sort of fuzzy

one-worlder thinking goes against the historic charter of American conservatism, it proved too inviting a target for them to pass up.

David Horowitz encapsulated the general line in his headline: “Obama Attacks U.S.”