More proof that these benighted regions are behind us on the saturation-media learning curve.
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels essentially invented activist media, but the US led the way in making it a factor in democratic politics. It is therefore natural that we would be first to reach the stage of skepticism about media objectives and methods and be ahead of all other countries in liberating ourselves from the tyranny of the media-industrial complex. The latter is not the “free press” of the founding Fathers, it is an unelected, unaccountable shadow government whose policies serve only its own greed and the depraved personal values of its members and participants.
For all their pretense of sophistication and “nuance” Europeans are gullible as sheep about what they see in the media. It might as well be 1975 there as far as media credibility is concerned. Obama’s popularity is no surprise at all, he is the purest essence of the demonic alliance of activist media and the political process.
Silly Freepers, the World DOES have a vote! You dont think the State of New York really elected Schumer and Clinton, do you??
But then the world hates the United States, so that shows you where they are coming from.
LOL, these world polls are about as accurate as internet polls.
How do you poll the world?
If the world had a vote, they could vote for the leaders of their own countires.
Most people don’t.
If Justice Kennedy has his way maybe they’ll be able to vote so it counts!
BFD! Most of these people polled are completely ignorant of U.S. Politics, economics, social conditions, etc. They could not answer even the most simple of questions about the way or manner in which government functions in the U.S. They have little of no knowledge about what it takes to be a citizen of a republic. Socialism is all most of these people know. They have only listened to the rock star appeal that the MSM has managed to attach to Obama. Do they know Obama wants to double capital gains taxes? They probably think that those people who receive income from capital gains deserve to be punished. This is the mentality of most of the rest of the world. Do they know Obama has just about zero knowledge about the U.S. Military or foreign affairs. Do they care? I will even attribute a sinister reason for some of the opinions. Some of these people know that Obama would be a disaster and they wish this to happen. The rest I will attribute to stupidity, ignorance and poor access to decent news reporting.
Shallow thinkers are everywhere.
Given the number of envious people that hate us, I’m not surprised they want Obama to be our POTUS.
Well of course they would. That’s why I don’t live in any other part of the world. Not to mention, Obama is the biggest open door to the rest of the world’s insanity that we’ve ever seen!
Is this were true, then why are the liberals being thrown out of office across the globe in recent elections?
I have travelled quite a bit internationally. One the one hand I dismiss polls like this because most people overseas are Leftists. But there is another reason to dismiss this poll...
Most people overseas, and I include Europe in this, entertain all sorts of bizarre ideas about what America is like. Even Europeans have all sorts of strange ideas about what its like to live here. In the end I dismiss these polls because most of the people polled don’t have the faintest idea what America and Americans are really like. They may as well have asked these same people about their opinions on quantum spintronics. Pay no attention to them.
Londoners run the gamut between being liberal and conservative. The Home Counties are deeply conservative. The part of France where I go is rather conservative. The Glaswegians I know are strongly socialist -- real leftists -- as is much of Scotland. And yet, whether rural or urban, whether leftist or on the right, the people I meet are suspicious of Obama. Oddly enough, no matter their political beliefs, they all say the same things.
They want to know what he stands for, specifically. That "Change We Can Believe In" sounds like BS to them. Quite a few people are troubled by the Rev Wright business. Everyone has pointed to his lack of experience.
I know this won't go over well here, but most favoured Hillary, including the conservatives. (There are a number of complex reasons why European conservatives don't like the Republican candidates.)
The young may be more enthusiastic over Obama. I can't say, as the people I meet are over thirty.
Take a look at the rest of the world and consider what that says about Obamassiah.
A semi-jokingly play on words and yet circumstances surrounding the world and this man echo how close we are. BTW, this soon-to-come world ruler prophesied in the Bible will gain power peaceably and "with flatteries" as a man of peace (ie. he will fool much of the world)(Daniel 11:21). The parallels are striking.
"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.