Planet Obama: What would happen if the entire world could vote in our election? One guess

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | Mark Morford,

[presidio9]

The entire world is, apparently, full of whiny no-good commie liberals.

It's true. This is the only logical conclusion, the only way you can possibly parse the piles of (largely unscientific, but still pretty damn convincing) numbers and data and full-blown emotional consciousness now pouring in from all over the world, pumping our little presidential election full of all sorts of cosmic meaning and profundity and oh-my-God-can-it-be-true.

Check that: Maybe it's not the only way to parse it. But if you're a hard-core McCainite and/or are under some sort of unfortunate, chemically-induced delusion that Sarah Palin is just exactly the sort of dangerously harebrained, folksy, winking, nonsensical political confection we all really need right now, well, you might be more than a bit peeved to learn that the entire world has already cast its vote for our next president.

And of course, the world wants Obama.

Overwhelmingly. Crushingly. Rather staggeringly. By quite possibly the largest margin you will see anywhere except maybe Hawaii and D.C. and, well, San Francisco.

Did you already suspect? Could you not already guess? Because despite how here at home Obama is pulling nicely ahead by anywhere from five to 10 points almost across the board, we still call that a relatively close race. It's still "anybody's game," with both candidates currently whipping the battleground states into a frenzy and spending millions in a mad-dash sprint to an extraordinary finish.

The rest of the world? Not quite so divided. Not by a long shot.

Just look. Over at The Economist, they put together a rather ingenious tool, this Global Electoral College tracker thing, wherein we can ask, well, exactly that: What would happen if the nations of the world were divvied up in a way similar to our electoral college, with each nation

[presidio9]

Dear Mark, The people of Iran, Venezuela and North Korea have no vote, but their benevolent leaders will all be voting for you know who. Signed, A heterosexual

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

I guess it is true. Most of the world does wish us ill.

[thecabal]

Oh boy, another screed by a “man” who writes like a 12-year-old girl. You know there’s no justice in this world when this hack get paid to spew this vomit.

[AmericanMade1776]

what would happen if the whole world could vote.. PERIOD! Most of the world does not have Free Elections, so who would vote.. Dictators and their friends? What a load of crock.

[freekitty]

While we are talking about tyranny here’s an article that should be read.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5445

[gridlock]

Like I need another reason to vote against Barack Obama!

[Lazamataz]

The entire world is, apparently, full of whiny no-good commie liberals.

OMG!

Mark this as the day that I agreed with Mark Morford.

[sarasota]

And that is a major reason to vote McCain.

[Loyalist]

Mark Morford fears that looking into Sarah Palin’s eyes would turn him straight.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Poor Mark. The syphilitic dementia is really taking hold.

[Abathar]

What an idiot, they will vote for a candidate who will do what they think is best for them, and not for the nation he was elected to represent.

Mark just can’t wrap his head around the fact that most of the world is jealous of the U.S. and would love to see her fall in their lifetimes.

[chickadee]

Dear Mark,

England and France and Germany are free to elect a black man or woman to head their nations any time they wish. Why haven’t they?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

Just like the left swooned all over Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930’s.

[ncfool]

Obama scares the crap out of me. So if this Lefty from San Francisco thinks he is safe and the world is better with Obama then we will see when they cut his head off in the streets of San Fran. But hey! Michael Savage says they like that kind of Fetish play there. This is How Odinga normally treats his opponents,Will Obama change America to be like Odinga's Kenya?

Angry Odinga supporters went on the rampage in Nairobi and across the country, looting and burning.

[NoLibZone]

England and France and Germany are free to elect a black marxist muslim man or woman to head their nations any time they wish.

Why haven’t they?

[reagan_fanatic]

A good portion of those ‘world citizens’ pining for Obama do not wish this country well, either.

They know the best way to take America down is to hope for the election of a socialist/communist.

[chickadee]

I stand corrected, lol.

[Billthedrill]

Uh, Mark? Before you get too enamored of that "majority rules" stuff consider what would happen to homosexuals if the entire world voted about it. Or rather what did, and is.

The "world," that is, that part of it that is capable of receiving the incredible amount of propaganda spewed on the topic, believes the U.S. is responsible for every bruised knee in Zambia and Mongolia, and must be punished for it and controlled, and that Obama will see to that. If that's the sort of stuff you're accustomed to reading, it's the sort of stuff you believe. And if Morford is the sort of stuff you're accustomed to reading you'll believe anything.

[RichInOC]

Markie...

1. The world doesn’t get to vote. I mean, I think a lot of other countries have idiots running them. Do I get a vote in those elections, too?

2. I find the thought of you, of all people, mocking Sarah Palin as a giddy airhead to be...amusing. I mean, you’re basically Andrew Sullivan on Ecstasy.

[gridlock]

This is pretty basic stuff.

The US elects the US President, presumably to act in the interests of the United States and the people who elected him.

The interests of the people of the United States are sometimes in line with the interests of people in other countries, and sometimes they are opposed. People who support a certain candidate who are not US citizens may be doing so because they have an interest that is hostile to the citizens of the US.

Now, Mark Morford must operate under the delusion that the world is one big happy sing-a-long, and that the people of other lands have his interests at heart. He could not be more wrong.

As an example, if power of the World were apportioned one-man/one-vote, homosexuals would be severely oppressed everywhere. He should thank his lucky stars that he lives in such an enlightened country, or he would be one of the first ones up against the wall.

[Axenolith]

If frogs had wings...

[bushfamfan]

That’s why the world prefers Demonrats. They are apologetic of being ‘American’. But they are in for a surprise because if the United States goes down so the rest of the world finds out how they go down as well. Within a year of an Obama presidency, I think you can mark it down that this will be one big regret. There are dangers there for the entire world and we are going to find out how costly this election was. And they think they hate Bush now!

[NoLibZone]

LOL!

[avacado]

"The entire world is, apparently, full of whiny no-good commie liberals."

What is this? A moment of clarity from Morford?

[just me]

If the whole world gets to vote in our election do they have to pay taxes here? Or do they just want our tax money which I am sure Obama has promised some of them...

[chesley]

And “the world” should stick it where the sun don’t shine. “The world” can go where it’s always summer, and no water anywhere forever.

Do we get to vote in their elections? No. So why do they think they are entitled to vote in ours?

[JDW11235]

...Someone would want to make sure there was a subsidy to graft some onto Toads too.

[According2RecentPollsAirIsGood]

The entire world is, apparently, full of whiny no-good commie liberals.

Fixed, but on the right track, Mark. Moreover, commie liberals who abide Islamofascists who will slit your throat first, you useful idiot.

[weegee]

“The entire world is, apparently, full of whiny no-good commie liberals.”

Largely yes. Global communism would have run the world if not for the United States.

Global Socialism runs Europe.

The Western elites are pushing the myth of man made global warming.

[weegee]

[weegee]

Obama is claiming that the “bailout” is “Bush’s fault” and such policies would continue under McCain.

It is Obama who offered up a US bailout of global poverty.

Who wants to see the bill for that one?

[Elsie]

And of course, the world wants Obama.

1 Samuel 8

 1.  When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges for Israel.
 2.  The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba.
 3.  But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.
 4.  So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
 5.  They said to him, "You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have."
 6.  But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.
 7.  And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
 8.  As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.
 9.  Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."
 10.  Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
 11.  He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
 12.  Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
 13.  He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
 14.  He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.
 15.  He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.
 16.  Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle  and donkeys he will take for his own use.
 17.  He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
 18.  When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."
 19.  But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us.
 20.  Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."
 21.  When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD.
 22.  The LORD answered, "Listen to them and give them a king."   Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Everyone go back to his town."

 

 

 Revelation 13:4-10
 4.  Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"
 5.  The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.
 6.  He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.
 7.  He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.
 8.  All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
 9.  He who has an ear, let him hear.

 

 

[weegee]

Is there anything that prevents a Kenyan born man from becoming Prime Minister of England?

[uglybiker]

What would happen if the entire world could vote in our election? One guess

Actually, you get three guesses.
The first two don't count.

[NoLibZone]

"Is there anything that prevents a Kenyan born man from becoming Prime Minister of England?" LOL! Yes. The people in the EU would never allow it. Name the EU nation(S) that had blacks rise as high as Condi or Powell or Thomas have here.

[weegee]

So this is another DUped and DUmped and ISLAMmed and KOStcode online poll. Big deal.

http://www.economist.com/vote2008/?mode=leadershipboard

[weegee]

Iran: Strong Obama
Saudi Arabia: 100% for Obama
Syria and Libya need more response before they are called for either candidate
Jordan is 100% for Obama
Even Kenya is only 97% for Obama

It also shows “80% electoral” support for Obama in the United States. BULLSTALIN.

[weegee]

There was a foppish heroin junkie from England who went on Viacommie-MTV to endorse Obama and admonish the US to vote for him to show how “modern” we are to consider now having a black president. How old is England again?

[redpoll]

Which reminds me of the old joke about democracy in Africa:

“One man, one vote, one time.”

[reformed_dem]

There’s actually a website out there - http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/

0bama is winning something like 87%.