World wants Obama

[Ninja]

If you're McCain, do you run ads on this? I do.

I make Obama out to be the candidate of Europeans, Code Pink, and freaks with no morals or values like midcan5, Ravi, manifold, etc.

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.

All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.

In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.

More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe and South America.

The margin in favour of Senator Obama ranged from 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, while an average of 49 per cent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 per cent preferring Senator McCain. Some four in 10 did not take a view.

World wants Obama as president: poll - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[Ravi]

I wish you'd make an ad, Ninja, about liberal freaks with no morals. You and Babble. I've been linking your posts all over the internet to show people how empty inside "conservatives" have become but so far everyone thinks you're a dnc plant.

 

[Modbert]

If you're McCain, do you run ads on this? I do.

I make Obama out to be the candidate of Europeans, Code Pink, and freaks with no morals or values like midcan5, Ravi, manifold, etc.



World wants Obama as president: poll - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

This would backfire on John McCain so fast. The rest of the world wants Barack Obama, people would wonder why it's that lopsided. That perhaps they see something we don't.

I hope John McCain does run an ad on it, that way he can slide down in the polls.

Besides, aren't those europeans suppose to be our allies? Some of them anyway I guess. (Cough England Cough)

 

[Ninja]

This would backfire on John McCain so fast.

Yeah, he might lost his new 15 point lead amongst independents.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents

 

[Caligirl]

If you're McCain, do you run ads on this? I do.

I make Obama out to be the candidate of Europeans, Code Pink, and freaks with no morals or values like midcan5, Ravi, manifold, etc.



World wants Obama as president: poll - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

You lost me ninja. How is the rest of the world saying, in essence, "we would follow this guy" a bad thing for Obama?

Having the world follow the US puts the US in an incredible position of strength.

p.s. no I'm a brunette, the picture is at the request of another, very handsome, board member.

 

[Modbert]

Yeah, he might lost his new 15 point lead amongst independents.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents

If John McCain is truly up 15% among the independents, I will eat a hat.

Honestly, some polls I could understand but plenty of these polls are just on some damn steroids at this point.

 

[Ninja]

If John McCain is truly up 15% among the independents, I will eat a hat.

Eat your heart out, Robbie:

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[Modbert]

Eat your heart out, Robbie:

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Again, that poll is on roids.

McCain isn't up 15% on independents after being down a couple points at the very least.

Now on election day, if McCain is shown to have a 15% or more lead on Obama in independents, send me a hat to eat.

 

[Ninja]

Fair enough, but why is an exit poll more reliable than this one?

Bush's victory over Gore in 2000 proved that exit polls are unreliable. JMHO

 

[Modbert]

Fair enough, but why is an exit poll more reliable than this one?

Bush's victory over Gore in 2000 proved that exit polls are unreliable. JMHO

Exit polls are usually facts, these current polls are just a sample of independents put together for a poll.

I trust exit polls more then I trust these.

The 2000 election proved plenty of things are unreliable in this country, including the Supreme Court.

That's another debate for another topic though.

 

[Charles_Main]

wow the rest of the world wants Obama. One more reason to vote McCain in my book.

They want Obama because they believe he will make us weaker!!!

 

[CrimsonWhite]

This is the reason why the World wants Obama and the reason why every veteran should be ashamed of themselves if they support him.

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[Caligirl]

wow the rest of the world wants Obama. One more reason to vote McCain in my book.

They want Obama because they believe he will make us weaker!!!

The rest of the world looks up to the US. They don't want to make us weaker. Would you want to make someone you look up to weaker? Like your dad, for example.

The world wants the US back in a position of power (power of example and discipline) instead where it is at now (strained and discredited), because the course we have taken over the past eight years is a scary one. Many people see the world as less safe as a result of Bush. Bush is polarizing. When you take people that are in the middle and polarize them, each side feels it needs to beat the other side. Bush has done this, in a sense, on a global scale.

The world wants the US to take a leadership role again.

 

[Charles_Main]

The rest of the world looks up to the US. They don't want to make us weaker. Would you want to make someone you look up to weaker? Like your dad, for example.

The world wants the US back in a position of power (power of example and discipline) instead where it is at now (strained and discredited), because the course we have taken over the past eight years is a scary one. Many people see the world as less safe as a result of Bush. Bush is polarizing. When you take people that are in the middle and polarize them, each side feels it needs to beat the other side. Bush has done this, in a sense, on a global scale.

The world wants the US to take a leadership role again.

Forgive me but you are a fool. The world does not want us in a position of Power. They do not like looking up to us. They want us weak, and they believe Obama will cause that.

Oh and my Dad has been dead for some years now!

 

[Caligirl]

Well, the people I know around the world (mostly europe, people at work) does not want the US weak. They want the US strong. Many hope to move here, make a better life. Others recognize the importance of the US economy on their own.

Many believe the US would never elect Obama or a woman. (I suppose we have to now!) Many people I have spoken with have said that the fact that the US actually nominated a black man is a sign that the US is not as closed-minded as they had believed.

but don't take my foolish ideas, there's plenty on the web for example:

The French as a whole say Obama is their favorite candidate. He has caught their imagination with his image and soaring oratory. When they talk about him, they almost always mention Kennedy. Even French Socialists, who chose a woman to run as their candidate in France’s presidential election last year, prefer Obama to Hillary Clinton by a slight margin.

The same enthusiasm for Obama has been reported in other countries in Europe, and back here in Britain, where “Obamamania” has fired the imagination of columnists and editorial writers as well as the man and woman on the street. A columnist in the conservative Daily Telegraph seemed to speak for most of the country when he wrote on Super Tuesday: Today’s events are not just a matter for the Yanks, but for all of us, and I hope they inspire at least a season or two of thoughtfulness after what has seemed an age of spite.

He was referring to the Bush administration, whose policies have created the biggest anti-American backlash abroad that I have seen in more than four decades as a foreign correspondent. When the Daily Telegraph talks about the United States as a “war-mongering nation,” you know that America has few friends left.

It’s the war in Iraq that has poisoned transatlantic relations. A French newspaper this week called it as stupid as it is tragic. Obama is the European’s favorite because they believe he has taken an unambiguous stand against the war. What they want to see in Washington is change, and he seems to represent the biggest change.

Why should Americans care about what Europeans think? They can’t vote in our election. But what a difference it would make to America’s standing and influence in the world if the next American president could go abroad and be greeted with cheering crowds (like Presidents Kennedy or Reagan in Berlin) instead of having his public appearances strictly limited to the carefully controlled events that have to be orchestrated for President Bush abroad. And at home, too, for that matter.

An American president who was popular abroad as well as at home might be able to accomplish far more than the current administration, which has seen members of the “coalition of the willing” walk away from Iraq, and few countries willing to carry more of the burden in Afghanistan. Even the world’s greatest superpower needs friends. So, in a way, those foreigners who wish they could vote in America’s election do have a say.

Europe votes Obama | PRI's The World

 

[AllieBaba]

The very fact that the world wants Obama makes me want McCain.

Look at the world, then look at the US and you tell me who's on the right track. So thank you very much, I think we should thankfully decline Obamanization of the US because the "world" wants him. Let the "world" have him. Maybe he can be Honorary Grand High Sheik of the World or something. He might actually be qualified for that.

 

[Charles_Main]

You think you are the only one that knows people from over seas or something.

I am telling you, most other nations, especially in Europe do not want the US strong. They do not want us to lead, they want us to bend to their will.

 

[Charles_Main]

The very fact that the world wants Obama makes me want McCain.

exactly

 

[Caligirl]

No of course I don't think that I am the only one that knows people from abroad, but I can only speak from my experience!

Anyway, I was actually wondering today why the right didn't want Kerry, because the same thing happened there. THe world wanted Kerry. Why didn't we elect him? I actually forget.

Were the things that we were scared of from Kerry (whatever they were) did we end up better with Bush? I would be interested for your perspectives on that.

Sincerely,
Caligirl

 

[AllieBaba]

We didn't elect him because he was exposed as a lying piece of shit, and he got caught on it.