Hey world: up yours!
Posted on 09/09/2008 10:00:33 AM PDT by traumer
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.
"Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents," GlobeScan chairman Doug Miller said.
"Given how negative America's international image is at present, it is quite striking that only one in five think a McCain presidency would improve on the Bush administration's relations with the world."
In the United States, three polls taken since the Republican party convention ended on Thursday (local time) show Senator McCain with a lead of 1 to 4 percentage points - within the margin of error - and two others show the two neck-and-neck.
The countries most optimistic that an Obama presidency would improve relations were America's NATO allies, including Australia (62 per cent).
A similar BBC/Globescan poll conducted ahead of the 2004 U.S presidential election found that, of 35 countries polled, 30 would have preferred to see Democratic nominee John Kerry, rather than the incumbent George Bush, who was elected.
A total of 23,531 people in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, Britain and the United States were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone in July and August 2008 for the poll.
Get Bent.
Yours truly,
An American who doesn't want live in an economic toilet.
To the rest of the world: WE DON’T CARE!
Why would I give a $hit what anyone in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, OR Britain thinks?
Then let “the world” elect Obama “President of The World”, a largely ceremonial position.
We Americans will ignore him.
These are the same people who thought we should stick our heads in the sand and just whimper after 09-11-01. I wish one of these “countries” would offer the messiah a job in the top spot of their “country.”
To the rest of the world: WE DON’T CARE!
Hey world: up yours!
The world can have Obama. I want my president to put America first.
proof positive that no one needs a passport.
Yet another reason to vote for McCain!
This is an interesting collection of many 3rd world countries and many of which are predominantly black. Is that a racist choice or just interested in someone who looks like them?
Well, when one knows east it’s easy to find west.
Actually, this is the same ploy they used in 2004 with JF'nKerry, trying to make dumb voters think that if the world wanted him, well we should too! They keep missing the fact that most Americans get pi**ed when Europe and the rest of the world try to stick their noses in our business.
they contacted these people by phone?
let the world nominate him for Secretary General of the do nothing UN. actually maybe he will get to be the antichrist someday.
In a related story, the World also announced that it didn’t like having any superpower or anyone who was doing better than It was, was tired of watching American re-runs, and sick of seeing people in sneakers all over its majestic sights.
However, at that point the World had to go because it was sick and needed to catch its flight to have the surgery It needed, and besides, It was worried about neighboring countries fighting and was wondering where the Money would come from to keep the Invasion at bay...
Of course they want Obama, he is weak and they will take advantage of us if he gets elected.
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