Obama is neither Kenyan nor Hawaiian

In fact, writes Englander Daniel Hannan, he's European:

My guess is that if anything, Obama would verbalize his ideology using the same vocabulary that Eurocrats do. He would say he wants a fairer America, a more tolerant America, a less arrogant America, a more engaged America. When you prize away the cliché, what these phrases amount to are higher taxes, less patriotism, a bigger role for state bureaucracies, and a transfer of sovereignty to global institutions. In other words, President Obama wants to make the U.S. more like the EU.

He is not pursuing a set of random initiatives lashed arbitrarily together but a program of comprehensive Europeanization: European health care, European welfare, European carbon taxes, European day care, European college education, even a European foreign policy, based engagement with supranational technocracies, nuclear disarmament, and a reluctance to deploy forces overseas. ...

The U.S. Constitution, in particular the Bill of Rights, is mainly about the liberty of the individual.

The EU Constitution is mainly about the power of the state. Here is the categorical difference between the two unions, the elemental distinction of which all the other differences are aspects.

Because the U.S. was designed along what we might loosely term Jeffersonian lines, it has tended to have a small government, strong local authorities, a flourishing private sphere, a limited welfare system, relatively low taxes, and skepticism toward global technocracies. The EU, having been conceived around the concept of an ever-closer union, tends the opposite way.

Last month, I wrote,

Back in March 2009, Doug Ross wrote that Obama's destruction of the American economy is deliberate. My question for scoffers at that notion is simply this: If the Democrats' wrecking of the American economy was not deliberate, what would they have done differently if they had been deliberate?

Yet even from across the Atlantic they can see that it was deliberate - the purposeful Europeanizing of America.