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The Rest of the World Wants Kerry
Pentagram writes "A poll by GlobeScan Inc and the University of Maryland of 34,330 people from 35 countries found almost all of them gave a strong backing to Kerry; less than one in five backed Bush.
Only people from the Phillipines, Poland and Nigeria clearly backed Bush, whereas Norway gave Kerry the strongest backing with 74% to Bush's 7%. The UK, the US's most vocal ally during the Bush-led Iraq invasion, overwhelmingly preferred Kerry at 47% to 16%."
I fail to understand why it should matter to me John Q. Britisher would rather I voted Democrat. In fact, given the general internation consensus on America, I think I'm more likely to consider the endorsement of John Kerry by millions of John and Jane Q. Europeans rather a negative indicator of his capability as President.
I suppose they liked Carter, too?
Canthros
So, I'm curious.
Is ignorance really bliss?
Oddly?
Of course the rest of the world wants Kerry!
The rest of the world wants a kinder, gentler, docile, submissive, POWERLESS United States of America. They see Kerry and the liberal camp as a means to that end.
All the more reason to wake up, America, and vote for George W. Bush.
It's kind of funny, here in a country, were moral relativism reigns and the mantra of the times is "I don't care what anyone else thinks!" , that we're so concerned about what the rest of the world thinks about us. We should *all* be shouting that from the mountain tops.
"Guess what, world, we don't care what you think of us!"
We've got Freedom, we've got money, we've got power, we've got bombs. And we did it all in just over two and a quarter centuries. We're obviously doing something RIGHT.
Rest of the world, we don't care that you hate us.
Self-hating liberal Americans, let your guilt go.
And for God's sake, please vote Republican.
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
I'd prefer if France was run by a Gentoo-Running Sadist, but it doesn't mean I get a say in the matter.
Don't you mean masochist? And if so, isn't that a bit redundant?
m-
You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
Hmm, actually, he inherited an economy that was already in decline, and then, despite of what happened on 9/11 and a subsequent war, turned the economy around which has reduced the unemployment rate to a low 5.4%. Not to shabby.
he fucked Iraq
Really? If by "fucked" you mean "improved," alright, I'll give ya that one.
he fucked our international relations
I would argue that our own media fucked our international relations. They're the ones that constantly criticized, insulted, and generally belittled him. And the main reason France and Germany didn't join us in Iraq is because they were in bed with Saddam, with multi-billion dollar oil deals. Not to mention they were both involved in the corruption of the Oil For Food program.
he fucked our intelligence services
The Clinton administration is, in part, responsible for that. Specifically, it was Jamie Gorelick that wrote the memo that helped block communication between the intelligence agencies.
Bush has been busy improving inter-agency communication and collaboration. I admit they may have gone a little too far with some components of the Patriot Act.
he fucked our civil liberties
How?
and he fucked our electoral system.
Again, how? As far as I am aware, he hasn't done anything to our electoral system. Did he change some laws? Extend his term? I must have missed that story.
Kinda puts a blowjob from an intern into perspective, doesn't it?
Nothing wrong with a blowjob. Purgery, on the other hand, is a bigger deal. That's why he was impeached and temporarily disbarred by the U.S. Supreme Court and had his Arkansas law license suspended for five years (plus a $25,000 fine) for providing "misleading testimony" in order to deny Paula Jones her day in court.
I cannot fathom how this got onto Slashdot, nor how the poll even got funded or published.
THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES NOT VOTE IN US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS!
It matters more who the Simpson's and Han Solo would vote for than what the Phillipines thinks should be President.
No, I can tell you how this got onto Slashdot, you are all a bunch of loonies and you have no idea how to be the least bit unbiased. Except for Pudge.
Of course God is against Bush, I've got good information that Buddha, Shiva, Zeus and Jupiter don't like him either. Vishnu on the other hand is a Pioneer donor to Bush/Cheney 04 and Vahalla is voting Badnarik.
I hadn't seen that graph, but it was beautiful. I had been rooting for Ivan to hit the Panhandle since I was under the impression that Frances had hit largely Democratic areas. The really beautiful thing is that it's going back for seconds in Texas. My feelings about Texas these days are much like those of Bill O'Reilly's concerning France.
Unfortunately, the issue is that poorer voters, who tend to vote Democrat, are more likely to still have disrupted lives on Nov 2 than wealthier Bush supporters. We've registered over 45K new Democrats in FL this year and Nader won't get anywhere near 90K votes again, but 3 hurricanes halfway through the season and another one on the way isn't helping.
Arrogance is Confidence which lacks integrity. -- me