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Because I want the overseas reputation of and communications with our country to improve, a lot, ASAP.
Here are two stories about the overseas preference for Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
A BBC poll released earlier this week found that all 22 of the foreign countries, on six continents, that were asked about their preferences for who would become the next president of the United States preferred Barack Obama:
The 22 countries, drawn from six continents, preferred Obama over his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, by an average four to one margin.
The poll confirms the conventional wisdom that, while the race is tightening in the polls at home, the world wants to see an Obama presidency — a notion that was mocked by the McCain campaign after an Obama speech in Berlin attended by 200,000 people.
‘Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents,’ said Doug Miller, the chairman of the international polling firm Globescan, who conducted the poll for the BBC with the help of University of Maryland’s Programme on International Policy Attitudes.
In another question in the BBC poll, more than three-quarters of the countries said that an Obama presidency would see improved U.S. relations with the rest of the world. On average, 46 percent of respondents think that relations would get better with Obama at the helm, 22 percent said they would stay the same, and 7 percent thought they would get worse.
Now, that poll was conducted before Governor Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain’s running mate on the GOP ticket, mentioned that if Georgia became part of NATO and Russia attacked Georgia, we would start a war, but here’s what the poll said about NATO members’ preferences:
In the recent poll, the U.S.’s allies in NATO — many of whom did not participate in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as the non-NATO ‘coalition of the willing’ — were the most optimistic that an Obama presidency would bring better relations.
More than 60 percent of respondents in Canada, France, German, and Italy, and over half of those surveyed in Britain said Obama would improve strained relations with the world.
Only China, Nigeria and India thought that a McCain presidency would improve relations with the rest of the world and in all three places that preference was only by a ‘modest margin’ over Obama.
It’s easy to say that we shouldn’t care what others things about us, that we have to do what we think is best. Well, that’s not been working too well for us, if you ask me and there’s every indication that a McCain administration would do little to nothing to improve our relationships with other countries.
Unless you too don’t care much about how the rest of the world’s 6.4 billion people feel about us…
On November 4, vote for Obama/Biden.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:12 pm September 13th, 2008 in 57ReasonsObamaBiden, Politics
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If we followed what the other countries and NATO told us, we wouldnt be the leader of the free world now would we? We would be just another follower. Perhaps that most far reaching and ridiculous reason I have heard to date. The manager of my local McDonalds has more on the job experience then Obama. 143 days of actual job experience in washington and NONE as an executive running ANYTHING. I cant believe Obama is even on the ticket.
What NATO “told us”? The survey is about their impressions of what they’d prefer. I don’t think they imagine for a minute that they can influence us – and I certainly don’t believe that. However, what they think is interesting to me.
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