World wants Obama
 

World wants Obama as president: poll
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...?section=world
Posted Tue Sep 9, 2008 10:50pm AEST

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.

"Given how negative America's international image is at present, it is quite striking that only one in five think a McCain presidency would improve on the Bush administration's relations with the world."

In the United States, three polls taken since the Republican party convention ended on Thursday (local time) show Senator McCain with a lead of 1 to 4 percentage points - within the margin of error - and two others show the two neck-and-neck.

The countries most optimistic that an Obama presidency would improve relations were America's NATO allies, including Australia (62 per cent).

A similar BBC/Globescan poll conducted ahead of the 2004 U.S presidential election found that, of 35 countries polled, 30 would have preferred to see Democratic nominee John Kerry, rather than the incumbent George Bush, who was elected.

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.

- Reuters

Tags: world-politics, event, us-elections, us-election, united-states

U.S. global leadership is dwindling: "An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades." According to the U.S. intelligence community's top analyst, U.S. leadership is eroding "at an accelerating pace" in "political, economic and arguably, cultural arenas."

Market diving, another massive bank may collapse: Stocks fell 280 points on Tuesday, a dive that was accelerated when concerns mounted about the Lehman Brothers investment bank's ability to raise capital. "Waves of selling wiped out nearly half of Lehman's value in the stock market on Tuesday, leaving the firm, one of the nation's oldest and largest investment banks, in an all-out fight for survival," the New York Times reported.

Fear of violence, terrorism slows Iraq withdrawal: "U.S. defense officials said the president's decision to withdraw only 8,000 soldiers from Iraq reflects a persistent concern among top commanders that the improvements in security could be temporary and that renewed violence could erupt. Officials fear that Iran might reactivate the Shiite Muslim militias it's armed and trained and that the Sunni group al Qaida in Iraq is trying to reestablish itself in Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city."

Iraqi parliament gridlocked: "Iraqi lawmakers returned from their summer recess Tuesday, still gridlocked over the critical law on provincial elections and with no new vote in sight."

Economy weakening: "The U.S. economy continues to be marked by weak housing and labor-market conditions," the Wall Street Journal reported today, "suggesting economic performance will be sluggish at best through the end of the year."

F.uck the world

And please don't tell me that these countries all want Obama because he'd be weak militarily and a pushover in negotiations

For some reason, it's mainly many Americans who are blind to the embarassment of Bush and of Palin.

Now, I realize no amount of reasonable, civil debate will change anyone's mind on either side of the debate. To us, the truth of the assertion that Bush-Cheney and Palin are an insult to the intelligence of the American people is self evident.

I don't know if the other side truly understands how bewildered we are, dumbfounded, by support for Bush policies or for Palin's legitimacy as a vice presidential candidate.

Welcome Mr. Cheney!

Bravo,Pants

OK.....WE WON'T! Are you from another country...or just a flamer?

You only wish you could get it hard enough to be a flamer.

Choke on an uncut euro cock, sissy.

You're smarter than this. Much smarter.

No we Don't as far as i see u guys have a choice between a arrogant black Fella or a Half dead white haired old man & the sad thing:( BOTH would still be better than bush !!!!!

Sigh...we've been over this!
btw....what does an erection have to do with Liberal Derangement Syndrome?:D

He slummin.....

Oh God...please tell me you arent stealing quips from Fox news. That channel is made for all of the old white limpies.

Clinton was worried what the world thought. He's part of the reason why 9/11 happened. No way it was planned in the span of 9 months.

So quite frankly you, Mike and the foreigners can f.uck right off. Let the world survive without our foreign aid. F.uck them right up their stupid f.ucking foreign asses.

you are unclear on the concept,clearly

This post may be awarded the :tro: for the dumbest post ever! Congrats!

I think the line of "intelligence of the American people" really took it. I'd call 10-15% of the American people intelligent.. and that is really reaching.

You guys stop invading other countries & we will;)

That'll never happen. We keep funding those religious nutters in the middle east with blood money.

[quote=Antitrust32]This post may be awarded the :tro: for the dumbest post ever! Congrats!

I think the line of "intelligence of the American people" really took it. I'd call 10-15% of the American people intelligent.. and that is really reaching.[/QUOTE]

And that line is 10000% brighter than anything on any of these threads regardless of how obvious it is. And im being serious.