I dipped my toe on the FoxNews website and scrolling down the page I was greeted with this breathless headline – Superman Renounces his US Citizenship. Reading the article, it talks about how in issue 900 of Action Comics, Superman will go to the United Nations and essentially declare himself a citizen of the world. The quote from the comic that had the FoxNews site buzzing was this, "I'm tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. Policy."

Well, if you follow FoxNews you already know what direction the article took. Some claim the creators are belittling the United States by not having Superman a citizen of the United States. It was a similar argument that was brought up in Superman Returns, when a local conservative radio host spend thirty minutes (I know I was stuck in traffic and that was all I could hear) explaining how there must have been some plot against America that allowed the writers not to have Perry White say Superman stood for truth, justice and the American way. In the movie he says truth, justice, all that stuff.

I went to The Blaze, the Glenn Beck blog site, and read comments there about the Superman story. It was rather surprising to read because a VAST majority of the comments hated the change in Superman, but were quick to point out they haven't read comics in years. They were going off nostalgia. Some came up with elaborate plots as to how this was indoctrinating kids into an evil globalist view.

What astounded me was that a majority of people felt it was wrong for Superman to renounce his citizenship because Superman stood for what America is all about.

In this growing political climate, I decided in my mind to put the Man of Steel in the modern world, and this is what I came up with. First of all, Kal-El is an illegal alien of the biggest kind. He has no papers showing his birth in America or any other place on Earth. I guess so much for him being President someday. It is ironic to me that so many people like the idea of Superman but they don't think about how their own actions would drive someone like Superman to renounce his citizenship and think of the bigger picture. If I was writing a story, I would have Superman touch on the recent event where Obama had to present more proof he is legitimate. Kal-El's Earth parents, Ma and Pa Kent, decent Christian folks, lied and said this kid they called Clark was a relative, without any paperwork to prove it.

Think of this scandal, in the context of the story in Action Comics #900. For the past few decades the United States government has been sharing secrets with an alien who can be manipulated by a radiated rock, has done probably trillions in property damage, has exposed this country, and the world, to extraterrestrial threat, and hasn't shared some of his vast technological advancements with us. They have given this alien the ability to represent the country without checking his credentials. Remember, in the world of Superman, no one knows he's Clark Kent, at least at the government level, so they don't know if the man is a plant by some foreign or extraterrestrial influence.

The FoxNews watcher would trust and want him to represent all that is good in America, and is upset when the current writers realize Superman is more global then the US, yet the same people would distrust the President of the United States and continually ask for proof of his citizenship and loyalty.

Strange.