Obama has been a major U.N. supporter since he was in the Senate and sponsored a bill, the Global Poverty Act (S 2433), to force U.S. compliance with the MDGs

Obama Endorses Global Taxes on Eve of U.N. Summit

By Cliff Kincaid
Thursday, September 16, 2010

In a classic case of misdirection, while the media are preoccupied with the fate of the Bush tax cuts, President Obama is preparing to attend a United Nations summit next week to endorse “innovative finance mechanismsâ€