…This is a speech you can Xerox. Marc Ambinder’s Blog:
“America, this is our moment. This is our time” – Obama, speaking in MN the night he officially won the Dem nomination (6/3).
“People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time” – Obama, in his first formal speech of his foreign tour (7/24).
And other similarities. Obama in Berlin:
This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. The two superpowers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love. With that wall gone, we need not stand idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom. It is time to secure all loose nuclear materials; to stop the spread of nuclear weapons; and to reduce the arsenals from another era. This is the moment to begin the work of seeking the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.
Superman at the United Nations:
SUPERMAN. . . As of today, I am no longer a visitor. The Earth is my home too. We cannot live in fear. I cannot watch you stumble into the madness of nuclear destruction. So I have come to a decision . . . I am going to do what your governments have been unable to do. . . I will rid our planet of all nuclear weapons.
I believe Superman is declaring himself, like Barack Obama, a citizen of the world.