A new poll reveals that the world wants Obama to win the election. There’s a surprise. The poll included people from all around the world, including China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, Russia, Turkey and the UAE.
Of course the world likes Obama. He campaigned in Europe, for crying out loud. He apologized for our evil sins and called himself a global citizen. He wants us all to be global citizens. Forget national pride and American exceptionalism. Those concepts are just so passe.
With an Obama Presidency the world will see a level playing field. To even out the world economy, he’ll impose his global poverty tax, cave to the UN and basically let us get kicked around. That’s what the world’s been waiting for.
There’s just one problem, the world doesn’t get to decide this one!
Thank the Lord for that!
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You are not kidding.
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How’s that suit going in Pennsylvania going about Obama’a qustionalbe bith certificate? Can we disqualify him yet????
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Not unlike the United States, there are people on the left, usually vocal, and people on the right, usually not quite so vocal, in Europe. I would offer “caveat votem” – “let the voter beware” or “be careful what you wish for”. So what was the poll question? Always ask.
I just got back from Germany this morning. Had lunch and dinner with collegues theree and the topic swung to the elections in the USA. The concensus around the table (Mostly scientists and engineers) was that McCain is desirable because he is a known quantity.
What was very surprising was that several of the older people brought up their concern he was similar to Kennedy. Having thought they the Germans loved JFK I asked what the concern was. It seems the comparison was around the extent of experience and the current world situation. I went something like this (and yes, I am paraphrasing).
Kennedy had military experience but it was somewhat limited. He was a man of political character (meaning he kept his private life private) but limited life experience and less world experience and didn’t understand world politics. When he took office he abandoned the allies Eisenhower had made in Cuba (referring to the fact that Kennedy did not follow through on Ike’s promise to back the invasion of at the Bay of Pigs). With a rising Russia (they stated that they never considered the Soviet Union anything but Russia) Kennedy failed to see the bigger picture. Interestingly their point was that Kennedy was inadvertantly the root of the Cuban Missile cirsis and the resolution of that crisis was like being the hero by putting out a fire that you started. Had he not managed to put out that fire Europe would have become part of the Soviet Block.
They continued by stating that world politics today are to them very much like the late 50′s early 60′s except that Europe is not in shambles (that is to say they have more to lose), but America could take Europe back to conflict if we don’t read the situation properly. Failing to follow through with commitments in the Middle East and the Caucuses are an unknown with Obama. His positions seem to shift with politics much like Kennedy’s did with Cuba.
Listening to this I had to fight back the urge to debate the American solution for the European civil war. Still it was enlightening to get their reasoning for seeing McCain as the better of the two from their perspective. I doubt that they responded to any polls.
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Allen, that’s interesting. I suppose the media never speaks to average European citizens. Thanks for the input.
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If only McCain would of picked Romney…he might of had a fighting chance against Obama. McCain is sunk.
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If only Republicans picked Romney maybe HE would have had a chance.
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