Posted on 10/08/2008 8:21:23 AM PDT by 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
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I guess it is true. Most of the world does wish us ill.
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.
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.
While we are talking about tyranny here’s an article that should be read.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5445
OMG!
Mark this as the day that I agreed with Mark Morford.
And that is a major reason to vote McCain.
Mark Morford fears that looking into Sarah Palin’s eyes would turn him straight.
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.
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?
Just like the left swooned all over Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930’s.
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?
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.
I stand corrected, lol.
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.
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.
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.
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