World wants Obama as president: poll

[Shine]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/09/2360240.htm?section=world

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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.



Well there's a shocker. :sarcasm: Duh.

[YOY]

1. Republicans follow Machiavelli here:

"And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

[Shine]

5. I'm all about LOVE conquering FEAR

:woohoo:

[Sensitivity]

2. If only the U.S. Voter was as Politically Educated as rest of the world

[jkshaw]

3. I don't think people realize how important the US

is to the rest of the world -- economically, environmentally, socially, and, especially, militarily. The US is capable of ruining the world, of engulfing it in war, destruction, famine. And the rest of the world knows it. Saying, "What do we care who the rest of the world wants as our president? What business is it of theirs?" is being worse than short-sighted. It's self-centered and criminal.

[zulchzulu]

4. I've met many tourists from all over the World at my Obama table...

... and every one of them LOVE Barack Obama. They also hate the living shit out of George Bush and generally don't even know who McCain is... or refer to him as another scary sonuvabitch...