Santorum: Obama contemptuous of American values

Interesting op-ed by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum on how Barack Obama and members of his administration continue to denigrate the United States every chance they get.

"Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions," Santorum writes in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Santorum decries the fact that Obama is filling his administration with people whose beliefs are out of the mainstream of ordinary Americans.

A perfect example is Dean Harold Koh.

From Santorum's column:

His nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be the State Department's top lawyer constitutes further evidence of his disdain for American values.

This seemingly obscure position in Foggy Bottom's bureaucratic maze is one of the most important in any administration, shaping foreign policy in the courts and playing a critical role in international negotiations and treaties.

Let's set aside Koh's disputed comments about the possible application of Sharia law in American jurisprudence. The pick is alarming for more fundamental reasons having to do with national sovereignty and constitutional self-governance.

What is indisputable is that Koh calls himself a "transnationalist." He believes U.S. courts "must look beyond national interest to the mutual interests of all nations in a smoothly functioning international legal regime. ..." He thinks the courts have "a central role to play in domesticating international law into U.S. law" and should "use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system."

Read the full column, "Obama vs. United States," at the newspaper's Web site.