Why would the rest of the world choose Obama???

[USRufnex]

In Britain:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2049487/Barack-Obama-wins-over-anti-Bush-Britain-US-election-2008.html

Asked about November's presidential election, British people overwhelmingly want the Democrats to capture the White House and end eight years of Republican rule in the US.

Some 49 per cent of UK respondents said that if they could vote in the contest, they would back Mr Obama, an Illinois senator who would be the first black president in US history.

By contrast, only 14 per cent said they would vote for Mr McCain, a veteran Arizona senator best known in the UK as a former Vietnam prisoner of war.

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In Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Russia):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/.../Barack-Obama-beats-John-McCain-in-European-vote-US-election-2008.html

John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, received only 15 per cent of the vote in unprecedented survey covering Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia.

The poll also found a striking level of anti-American feeling in every country. A clear majority of Russians - 56 per cent - believe the US is a "force for evil" in the world. In Britain, only 33 per cent see America as a "force for good".

Opinion towards America has become steadily more hostile throughout the presidency of George W Bush, with the Iraq war probably being the single most important factor.

Mr Bush's unpopularity appears to have rubbed off on Republican presidential candidates in general. This might explain why Mr McCain, a strong supporter of the Iraq war, is the least popular potential president in all the countries surveyed.

Meanwhile, Mr Obama, the only consistent opponent of the Iraq war in the race for the presidency, commands a clear lead. He is especially popular in Italy, where a remarkable 70 per cent would vote for him if they could.

In France, historically the European country with the strongest anti-American sentiment, 65 per cent would back Mr Obama. In Germany, the Democratic Senator would get 67 per cent of the vote - while Mr McCain would receive a derisory six per cent.

Mr Obama appears to have made less of an impact in Britain than elsewhere in Europe. A relatively modest 49 per cent of Britons would vote for him, while 14 per cent would back Mr McCain - twice the totals favouring the Republican candidate in Germany or France.

Another 13 per cent of Britons would not vote for either man and 24 per cent "don't know".

The only country where Mr McCain can rival his opponent's popularity is in Russia, where anti-American feeling is strongest. The Republican appears to have made a striking impression on Russians, with 24 per cent saying they would vote for him if they could - a mere seven points behind Mr Obama.

Meanwhile, more Russians trust Mr McCain to "lead the global economy out of its current difficulties". His economic policy skills have the support of 36 per cent, compared with 28 per cent who back Mr Obama.

Historically, Russians have tended to favour Republican presidents and conservative leaders in the West in the general. Both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher enjoyed considerable popularity in the former Soviet Union in the 1980s.

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[USRufnex]

Global Poll Finds Obama Preferred in All Countries But U.S.

A new global poll of 17 countries finds a huge preference for Barack Obama over John McCain in the presidential election in 16 of those countries. In the 17th country -- the U.S. -- McCain was edging out Obama.

FOXNews.com
Monday, October 06, 2008

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/06/pub-global-poll-finds-obama-preferred-countries/

[iplaw]

I wonder if Europe is going to love Barack when Putin starts invading Eastern Bloc countries and Obama's only response is to take it before the UN?

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Global Poll Finds Obama Preferred in All Countries But U.S.

A new global poll of 17 countries finds a huge preference for Barack Obama over John McCain in the presidential election in 16 of those countries. In the 17th country -- the U.S. -- McCain was edging out Obama.

FOXNews.com
Monday, October 06, 2008

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/06/pub-global-poll-finds-obama-preferred-countries/

I can't think of a better reason NOT to vote for him than this poll.  Good find.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Global Poll Finds Obama Preferred in All Countries But U.S.

A new global poll of 17 countries finds a huge preference for Barack Obama over John McCain in the presidential election in 16 of those countries. In the 17th country -- the U.S. -- McCain was edging out Obama.

FOXNews.com
Monday, October 06, 2008

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/06/pub-global-poll-finds-obama-preferred-countries/

I can't think of a better reason NOT to vote for him than this poll.  Good find.

Good thing most free-thinking people don't get their 'facts' from Fox News.

That's a bit of an oxymoron, dontcha think?

[]

[USRufnex]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Global Poll Finds Obama Preferred in All Countries But U.S.

A new global poll of 17 countries finds a huge preference for Barack Obama over John McCain in the presidential election in 16 of those countries. In the 17th country -- the U.S. -- McCain was edging out Obama.

FOXNews.com
Monday, October 06, 2008

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/06/pub-global-poll-finds-obama-preferred-countries/

I can't think of a better reason NOT to vote for him than this poll.  Good find.

Good........  You're doing just what FoxNews wants you to do..... next, go get a haircut at  the Cherokee Barber Shop on 21st and Garnett so you can hobnob with the dittohead xenophobic hoi palloi... [:O]

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Global Poll Finds Obama Preferred in All Countries But U.S.

A new global poll of 17 countries finds a huge preference for Barack Obama over John McCain in the presidential election in 16 of those countries. In the 17th country -- the U.S. -- McCain was edging out Obama.

FOXNews.com
Monday, October 06, 2008

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/06/pub-global-poll-finds-obama-preferred-countries/

I can't think of a better reason NOT to vote for him than this poll.  Good find.

Good........  You're doing just what FoxNews wants you to do..... next, go get a haircut at  the Cherokee Barber Shop on 21st and Garnett so you can hobnob with the dittohead xenophobic hoi palloi... [:O]

A buddy of mine needed a haircut from over there (he's not a dittohead or republican or even conservative).  I did indicate to him later that I thought I should go over there wearing an Obama t-shirt and he should give me odds on if I got out of there alive.

[:O]

[Red Arrow]

quote:Originally posted by Hoss

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Global Poll Finds Obama Preferred in All Countries But U.S.

A new global poll of 17 countries finds a huge preference for Barack Obama over John McCain in the presidential election in 16 of those countries. In the 17th country -- the U.S. -- McCain was edging out Obama.

FOXNews.com
Monday, October 06, 2008

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/06/pub-global-poll-finds-obama-preferred-countries/

I can't think of a better reason NOT to vote for him than this poll.  Good find.

Good........  You're doing just what FoxNews wants you to do..... next, go get a haircut at  the Cherokee Barber Shop on 21st and Garnett so you can hobnob with the dittohead xenophobic hoi palloi... [:O]

A buddy of mine needed a haircut from over there (he's not a dittohead or republican or even conservative).  I did indicate to him later that I thought I should go over there wearing an Obama t-shirt and he should give me odds on if I got out of there alive.

[:O]

Good thing this is America, not Italy, France..... you can go somewhere else for your haircut.

[pmcalk]

quote:Originally posted by Red ArrowGood thing this is America, not Italy, France..... you can go somewhere else for your haircut.

RIGHT....Italy and France only have one salon.  

Do you realize how silly that sounds?

[Derailed]

There is a recent video on YouTube where Barack Obama told a community organization forum last December they would be part of his transition team, and would help shape his presidency.  This includes ACORN.

There is also video where Barack Obama campaigned for socialist Bernie Sanders.

And a video where Louis Farrakhan told a packed crowed of Muslims Obama is the "messiah".

Adn what about the video made by Muslim Americans for Obama.  Have you seen that one?  Scary.

Are you aware that Mohammed Ali Khan, the national director of the American Muslim Council (AMC) located in Chicago, use to hold fund-raisers for Barack Obama as a state senator?

A quick background check on this council shows AMC's founder and long-time chief, Abdurahman Alamoudi, is serving serious prison time after being sentenced in 2003 for terror-supporting offenses. This council tries to present itself as "mainstream" to Americans as do all other Islamist groups.  - yet it has a seriously worrisome history.

Or that Obama's new Muslim outreach director met in a "secret meeting" with leaders of a couple organizations in America that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America. NBC News, of all news organizations, did an investigative report on this.

Are you aware Obama was, apparently, a member of the "New Party" a Marxist leaning organization, as shown in a 1996 New Party archived document.

Or that Kalid Mansour, a Black American Muslim activist, asked a civil rights leader to write a letter to Harvard Law school on behalf of Barack Obama.  Mansour is a top advisor to a Saudi Prince.  

Already one leader of an Islamic country, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has referred to Barack Obama as a Muslim.  There is a video of this on YouTube.

Obama even campaigned for the 2nd Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, Andre Carson this past April in a mid term election.  He did a  radio spot for him that is on the Internet for you to listen.

You know, Barack Obama likes to say voters are being bamboozled by his opponent but it's really the other way around, IMO

Is this the change Americans really want?

BTW, I tried to put in the links to these videos and stuff but had trouble with this feature.  

If you are interested enough you can google these things and see for yourself.  If you are too closed minded you will just make me out to be anti-Obama, which is correct but I base my decision on his actions not his appealing words.  

The choice is yours.

[Red Arrow]

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

quote:Originally posted by Red ArrowGood thing this is America, not Italy, France..... you can go somewhere else for your haircut.

RIGHT....Italy and France only have one salon.  

Do you realize how silly that sounds?

That didn't quite come out like I intended.

I don't want the US to become France, Italy, Spain etc west of the Atlantic.  We tried being England west of the Atlantic for a while a long time ago. It just didn't work out.

If you don't like the politics at the Cherokee Barber Shop.. go somewhere else.

Less silly?

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

quote:Originally posted by Red ArrowGood thing this is America, not Italy, France..... you can go somewhere else for your haircut.

RIGHT....Italy and France only have one salon.  

Do you realize how silly that sounds?

That didn't quite come out like I intended.

I don't want the US to become France, Italy, Spain etc west of the Atlantic.  We tried being England west of the Atlantic for a while a long time ago. It just didn't work out.

If you don't like the politics at the Cherokee Barber Shop.. go somewhere else.

Less silly?

What's the deal with the Cherokee Barber Shop? Are they one of those Nelson's Buffeteria type places where people use to yell out stuff like at McCain/Palin rallys? Hope they suffer the same fate.

Someone yells "off with his head!" at a barber shop, it might just happen!

Derailed: you are.

[pmcalk]

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

quote:Originally posted by Red ArrowGood thing this is America, not Italy, France..... you can go somewhere else for your haircut.

RIGHT....Italy and France only have one salon.  

Do you realize how silly that sounds?

That didn't quite come out like I intended.

I don't want the US to become France, Italy, Spain etc west of the Atlantic.  We tried being England west of the Atlantic for a while a long time ago. It just didn't work out.

If you don't like the politics at the Cherokee Barber Shop.. go somewhere else.

Less silly?

A bit of a non-sequitor, but I guess not so silly.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by Derailed

There is a recent video on YouTube where Barack Obama told a community organization forum last December they would be part of his transition team, and would help shape his presidency.  This includes ACORN.

There is also video where Barack Obama campaigned for socialist Bernie Sanders.

And a video where Louis Farrakhan told a packed crowed of Muslims Obama is the "messiah".

Adn what about the video made by Muslim Americans for Obama.  Have you seen that one?  Scary.

Are you aware that Mohammed Ali Khan, the national director of the American Muslim Council (AMC) located in Chicago, use to hold fund-raisers for Barack Obama as a state senator?

A quick background check on this council shows AMC's founder and long-time chief, Abdurahman Alamoudi, is serving serious prison time after being sentenced in 2003 for terror-supporting offenses. This council tries to present itself as "mainstream" to Americans as do all other Islamist groups.  - yet it has a seriously worrisome history.

Or that Obama's new Muslim outreach director met in a "secret meeting" with leaders of a couple organizations in America that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America. NBC News, of all news organizations, did an investigative report on this.

Are you aware Obama was, apparently, a member of the "New Party" a Marxist leaning organization, as shown in a 1996 New Party archived document.

Or that Kalid Mansour, a Black American Muslim activist, asked a civil rights leader to write a letter to Harvard Law school on behalf of Barack Obama.  Mansour is a top advisor to a Saudi Prince.  

Already one leader of an Islamic country, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has referred to Barack Obama as a Muslim.  There is a video of this on YouTube.

Obama even campaigned for the 2nd Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, Andre Carson this past April in a mid term election.  He did a  radio spot for him that is on the Internet for you to listen.

You know, Barack Obama likes to say voters are being bamboozled by his opponent but it's really the other way around, IMO

Is this the change Americans really want?

BTW, I tried to put in the links to these videos and stuff but had trouble with this feature.  

If you are interested enough you can google these things and see for yourself.  If you are too closed minded you will just make me out to be anti-Obama, which is correct but I base my decision on his actions not his appealing words.  

The choice is yours.

Wow, if that's the case then how about the group that John McCain endorsed by attending who had a leader who openly praised a women for shooting a doctor who performed abortions?

How about the Keating Five?

McCain definitely isn't clean either.

The repubs crack me up.  They didn't bring this out until 3 weeks to go and don't expect race baiting accusations?

It's the same old hate rhetoric and Rovian tactics we've become used to from Dubya.  What does that say about McCain's direction for the country?

McSame.

[cannon_fodder]

Europe loves Obama because he is less militaristic that McCain, more socialist, less fundamentalist, a better orator and gives off the heir of youth, vibrancy, and change.  

If elected, Obama will certainly be good for our world image.  Which even hardcore Republicans have to admit has taken a huge hit.  Popularity can go a long way.