President Obama repeated his call Wednesday night for Congress to pass “comprehensive energy and climate change legislation.” Today, he picked up an endorsement of sorts, but probably not one he wanted.

Believe it or not, Osama bin Laden is a hardcore environmentalist. So much so that he’s calling for a global boycott of American goods and the dollar in order to “liberate humanity from slavery and dependence on America.” In his latest audiotape, bin Laden attacks American free enterprise and calls for “drastic actions” to combat climate change. The only way to stop it, says bin Laden, is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a grinding halt. Thus, the boycott of American goods and currency.

Come to think of it, bin Laden’s idea sounds vaguely familiar. Where have I heard it before? Oh, that’s right – from Barack Obama’s Science Advisor, Dr. John Holdren. In our July 29th report, I noted that Holdren was an advocate for “de-development” – a radical idea that would destroy America’s economy, especially its industrial base, via environmental regulation, because development is the root cause of economic and environmental injustice. These so-called “progressives” literally want to take us back in time economically.

The more you listen to him, the more Osama bin Laden – with his anti-Semitic, anti-American, anti-free enterprise rants – sounds like a loyal, leftwingMSNBC fan. (Perhaps now I will finally be named Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person In The World”!)

Barack Obama has been hailed as one of the greatest orators of our day, yet he has been silent in recent days, refusing to speak up in defense of democracy in Iran. Instead, the Washington Post reported yesterday that our president is trying not to “alienate the ayatollah,” all so he can keep alive his hopes for diplomacy with the Islamofascist regime, like Neville Chamberlain seeking “peace in our time.”

While the president stays tight lipped, the media are making excuses for his silence. Isolationists on the right like Pat Buchanan to left wingers like Keith Olbermann are all saying that President Obama should keep his mouth shut so that “American meddling” doesn’t become the issue in Iran. Guess what? The tyrants in Tehran are already denouncing America for “interventionist statements.” The idea that our words matter to this regime any more than they mattered to Hitler is laughable. But this president promised us that he would restore America’s moral authority around the world. Let’s think about that for a moment.

How did America win that moral authority to begin with? We won World War II and liberated Europe and Japan from tyrannical regimes. Then we rebuilt our defeated enemies and turned them into allies. We rallied the free world in defense of liberty against the evil empire that was the Soviet Union. And our free enterprise economy, combined with the generosity of American foreign aid and individual charitable giving, did more to create wealth and lift people out of poverty than at any other time in human history.

But somewhere along the way, Mr. Obama insists we lost our moral authority. How? According to Mr. Obama, we lost it when George W. Bush invaded Iraq and freed 25 million Muslims from the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s rape rooms and child prisons. Now it is the Left’s position to talk with tyrants rather than to stand with slaves yearning for freedom.

Today, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reaffirmed the “absolute victory” of Iran’s Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During his speech, he led the crowd in chants of “death to America,” “death to Israel” and “death to the U.K.” Thank goodness Obama avoided alienating the ayatollah!

- Excerpt from Gary Bauer’s Daily Report
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