World wants Obama as president: poll

ABC News ^ | 09/09/08 | ABC

[kik5150]

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.

[hdbc]

FTW

[MeanWestTexan]

Poll the same people and see what percentage want all Americans to die.

[library user]

It just got posted again.

[RC2]

I agree...........really don’t care who the world wants for “OUR” President. Not their choice.

[xcamel]

twice..

[library user]

The rest of the world is not clean or articulate enough for Barry.

[ari-freedom]

So let him be President of the world

ummmm that’s his plan.

[shiva]

Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, Britain ,,

Which of these countries will Obama and Mickey go to after they lose the election?

[Sigurdrifta]

This stuff is weird. I get the same reactions from liberals at my own university who keep worrying about “restoring our image in the world” (why we should vote for Obama). And yet, someone whom I know very well who runs meetings in Latin America for an important international organization laughs to me and says they have people from many of these countries at these meetings, and they say ( better than 90%) “How can you Americans vote for this idiot Obama?).

Got me.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

AND I SAY FTW.We are the United States of America and we dont care what the slipknots want.

[dfwgator]

No way the Poles voted for Obama.

[jilliane]

So laughably socialist of them! They want a vote in our election - careful, Obama just might let them!

Newsflash! We’ve been making our own decisions just fine since 1776

[gogov]

Now there is a poll of unlikely voters.

[RichInOC]

You know, at any given time, there are several nations around the globe I’d rather (a) have other people governing, or better yet (b) have living under an entirely different system of government. But I’m not a citizen in any of them, so I don’t get a vote from here. (And in some of said governments, I wouldn’t have one there either, even if I were a citizen. One reason I’m kind of glad God set me down here.)

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Most of the world’s population aren’t even permitted to vote for the leaders of their own countries. Their thoughts on the US election are of no importance.

[libh8er]

Even if you leave aside the argument, ‘who gives a flying f*** what the world wants’, it’s still most likely a lie. It’s nothing more than manufactured polls designed to enhance Obama’s appeal and sway public opinion. In 2004 we saw similar “polls” where Europe(and the rest of the world) were unanimously in favor of Kerry, and these countries elected center right/pro Bush leaders (Harper, Merkel, Howard, Besculoni, Sarkozy, Koizumi....).

These polls are pure unadulterated BS.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

I forget, how many electoral votes does Iran get?

[ETL]

Barack Obama, July 30, 2008, Washington Post:

"This is the moment that the world is waiting for,"... "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902068.html?nav=hcmodule

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Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4337417

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Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."... "Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

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Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says

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"Minister Farrakhan and his delegation met privately with President Fidel Castro of Cuba."
http://www.finalcall.com/media/cuba/

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[that's Michelle Obama with Mrs. Farrakhan. Mrs. Farrakhan is at center bottom wearing white]
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/03/michelle-obama-and-louis-farrakhans-wife-together-in-photo/

[beckysueb]

Pretty desperate when they have to go to muslim countries to find big approval ratings for Obama.

[unkus]

FTW

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Amen to that!!!!!