Actually, it has a lot to do with something his wife said recently.
She claimed that, because her husband is now the front-runner for the Democratic Party's nomination, "for the first time" she was "proud" of America. Really? For the first time?
Peggy Noonan recently laid out just why we should worry that both she, and her husband, really believe that:
"Are the Obamas, at bottom, snobs? Do they understand America? Are they of it? Did anyone at their Ivy League universities school them in why one should love America? Do they confuse patriotism with nationalism, or nativism? Are they more inspired by abstractions like "international justice" than by old visions of America as the city on a hill, which is how John Winthrop saw it, and Ronald Reagan and JFK spoke of it?...Have they been, throughout their adulthood, so pampered and praised--so raised in the liberal cocoon--that they are essentially unaware of what and how normal Americans think? And are they, in this, like those cosseted yuppies, the Clintons?Why is all this actually not a distraction but a real issue? Because Americans have common sense and are bottom line. They think like this. If the president and his first lady are not loyal first to America and its interests, who will be?"
Indeed. Is Senator Obama ashamed of American power?
Fundamental: Anyone ashamed of that power, will be unable to wield it effectively.
