Posted on 06/13/2008 10:48:26 AM PDT by jamese777
WASHINGTON Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama is far more popular around the world than Republican presidential candidate John McCain, according to a 24-nation poll released Thursday by the Pew Global Attitudes Survey.
The Pew study finds that Obama is wildly popular among traditional U.S. allies in Western Europe and Australia, where people have become alienated by American foreign policy during the Bush years.
Among the nations polled, Obama was most popular in France and Tanzania, where 84 percent of citizens said they had confidence in his leadership. Other hotbeds of Obama enthusiasm are Germany (82 percent), Australia (80 percent), Japan (77 percent), Britain (74 percent) and Spain (72 percent).
"Barack Obama has strong international appeal just about everywhere," said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. "He's made quite a splash across the seas."
Obama's global popularity could be a double-edged sword domestically, Kohut said, with some Americans thinking that they don't want foreigners telling them who to choose.
While Obama enjoys widespread global popularity, McCain merits the confidence of a majority of residents in just one of the 24 nations surveyed the United States. He runs nearly 50 percentage points behind Obama in Germany and France. And he has the confidence of 25 percent or less of the population in eight of the countries surveyed: Spain, Russia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Indonesia, Pakistan and Mexico.
Despite the persistent and false Internet rumors that Obama is a Muslim, the Illinois senator receives his worst ratings in Islamic nations and Mexico: 10 percent in Pakistan, 20 percent in Turkey, 22 percent in Jordan, 29 percent in Mexico.
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"The vote is thirteen nays and one aye, the aye's have it."
Let them support whoever they want, at the end of election day it won't matter if they are crying with the losers or celebrating with the winners. They will never have a say in our decisions and that just bugs the sh*t out of the rest of the world, to them it just isn't fair that we alone get to chose the most powerful man in the world.
If the world was polled regarding what I should eat for dinner, bugs & dogs might be on the menu, too.
Look at the rest of the world and see how lousily they run their own countries and then think about whether you want to take their advice.
I hate to say it but the same is true of most Americans.
Your single vote won’t mean squat when there is 1000 LEGAL immigrants swearing in for their US Citizenship.
Clear enough or perhaps you need to reread my posts.
Perfectly clear to me now. Where do you get fitted for your tinfoil hats?
>Quran 9:33 ISLAM WILL PREVAIL OVER ALL RELIGIONS
AMERICA HAD BETTER TAKE THIS MAN AT HIS WORD:
“ISLAM ISN’T IN AMERICA TO BE EQUAL TO ANY OTHER FAITH, BUT TO BECOME DOMINANT. The Koran ... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth. Everthing we need to know is in the Koran. We don’t need to look somewhere else.” OMAR M. AHMAD, CHAIRMAN OF CAIR,the mainsteam Muslim advocacy group.
Go to YouTube and look up ‘WELCOME TO SWEDEN’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JBpVAj4ILM
Go to YouTube and look up Muslim victory in Europe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXX4o1o68NQ
Go to YouTube and look up ‘MUSLIMS DESECRATING the U.S. FLAG AND CONDEMING AMERICA IN NYC’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1FHeIP53Q
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Do you really want to take a chance on Barack Hussein Obama?
Just look at how p_ss-poor these other countries’ own governments are and you can see that these people have no sense about this whatsoever. Of course they want to see the US reduced to the same level.
I would be willing to bet McCain is far favored over Obama in those countries that were slaves of the USSR, e.g. Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania. Those people know what it’s like to live under the boot of communist thugs and I’ll bet their not anxious to see it happen here. I did not see any of them listed in the article though, for some reason.
Misery loves company. The intent of Socialism/Communism is to spread the misery equally, not to allow the people to lift themselves up to a higher plane.
No accounting for taste. I cant find one attractive thing about Clinton, or Obama. Yuck.
I probably should add this is MRS. Musher;)
“Just look at how p_ss-poor these other countries own governments are and you can see that these people have no sense about this whatsoever. Of course they want to see the US reduced to the same level.
I would be willing to bet McCain is far favored over Obama in those countries that were slaves of the USSR, e.g. Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania. Those people know what its like to live under the boot of communist thugs and Ill bet their not anxious to see it happen here. I did not see any of them listed in the article though, for some reason.”
The Pew Survey only polled people in two of those countries you mentioned, Poland and Russia. Its more confidence in Obama by 39% to 22% in Russia and by 53% to 37% in Poland.
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=260
Thanks, I’m surprised.
It’s a good thing I don’t really bet on stuff like this or I’d be broke.
Of course the problem may be that people in those far-flung places have even more of a skewed presentation of BHO than we do and they know nothing about people like Ayers and Dohrn.
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