Do you remember when candidate Obama said that? Quite impressed with himself, he was. Not only was he ready to "rule" (his words) the United States, but he was going to change the world in the process. Now he had decided who should and who should not be brought into European Union membership. He's over there pushing for membership for Turkey. Some European leaders aren't all that happy with this. I wonder when Nicolas Sarkozy will head to the United States to push for Puerto Rican statehood.
But ...what the hell. I'm trying to change the world too, and the FairTax would do just that.