UPDATE AT BOTTOM
Greetings in India and Kenya, we respect what you think you know about what you think we are, and what you THINK WOULD SERVE YOU, but frankly....JAM ITWorld wants Obama as president: poll
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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.
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.
A total of 23,531 people in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, Britain and the United States were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone in July and August 2008 for the poll.
Turkey?
Nigeria?
Panama?
I hope I have a complete benign neglect for any preference they have, I know I insist on this from them where we are concerned.
When Sarah arrives in Kenya and knocks off a charging rhino with her buck knife, they'll feel differently
UPDATE....Brown backs Obama
Gordon Brown has broken with British convention and made clear that he favours Barack Obama as the next US President.
In a departure from the usual self-denying ordinance of Prime Ministers past, Brown has written an article for The Monitor magazine in which he praises Obama's plans to get the US out of the housing slump.
11 comments:
Let´s vote for BBC too.
I think it sucks!
Hey, nobody asked ME!
Can we take a poll of who Americans want in charge of each of these countries? Hell, in Europe, they don't even know they have already been taken over by 7th century cavemen.
Ooops, I must apologize to the Geico cavemen for that slight.
In other news, three out of the four horsemen of the apocalypse agree, that Obama would probably be a bad thing, apocalypse-wise.
Oh... Isn´t it this BBC?!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2586236/BBCs-Children-in-Need-funded-77-terrorist-propaganda-says-Newsnight.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=SimpleSite/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1219218613539
Well Epaminondas, I, for one, am a Panamanian for McCain-Palin. I was one of those that was "preferring" McCain to Obama, only as the lesser of two evils. But since that gorgeous conservative woman, mother of five who is still married to her high school boyfriend, and who is also a hunter and NRA member and defender of the 2nd Amendment, was presented to us as the VP, I am totally in for McCain.
What Gordon Brown thinks is irrelevant. He's a busted flush here in the UK. If there was an election tomorrow he would be thrashed, out on his ear. He has lost the British public in a big way but unfortunately we have to put up with him for another 18 months.
As for Obama well it's the media that are pushing him over here just as over there but most people are too stupid to see beyond that.
Jaime that's great but please believe me when I tell you...the morons who decided such a poll was a good idea are people who have no clue.
I don't WANT to have an opinion about who Panamanians want to choose, and if asked in a poll, I would tell them to get lost. How could I have a clue to the myriad of domestic issues upon which Panamanians decide?
In here (IBA) it's a little different since the purpose of such a place as this is to exchange ideas. So no problem, but a poll, whose entire purpose is to BE PUBLISHED, asking who should be MY prez, in a place where not only are americans reviled (21% think well of us in Turkey? -PEW) but they still think muslims are not responsible for 9/11?
Gee, I wonder if they want the guy who says we are in a worldwide war against jihadism, or the guy who worries we do evil in the name of good?
It's nice to see Ray Boyd and Jaime posting comments.
We love you two guys.
Whenever you want to contribute some posts, we'd love that too.
Hope everything is well with you.
Aukmuntr,
I love your idea of asking Americans who ought to be in charge of these other countries.
Of course, truth is, America does comment, whenever we are particularly unhappy with the leadership of another nation. For instance,
Chavez
Kim Jong Il
Ahmadinejad
Chirac
We commented endlessly.
But, if a leader isn't killing people, threatening to do so, or running its foreign policy by opposition/triangulation, then we don't fucking care, because we've got much better things to do.
I've been reading about sociopaths lately, and in particular have learned a lot from the book, The Sociopath Next Door.
My educated guess is that Obama is a sociopath. They are capable of being extremely charming.
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