Obama overwhelms John McCain in global opinion by a four-to-one margin.

[depakid]

These are our allies, folks. I'm sure our enemies are rooting for McCain & Palin, who will continue doing their work for them by bankrupting America from within.
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The McCain-Palin ticket may have stolen the headlines and taken the lead from Obama-Biden in the US. But a new BBC survey shows that Barack Obama overwhelms John McCain in global opinion by a four-to-one margin.

Australia ranks as the fourth most pro-Obama of the 22 countries polled, behind only the homeland of Obama's father, Kenya, and Europe's anti-Bush bastions, France and Italy. Almost two-thirds of Australians polled believe America's global relations would improve under a president Obama. Only one in five believe things would get better under a McCain administration.

These dramatic differences reflect a clear mismatch between what Americans and the rest of the world want from the next US president. The world may be disappointed by whoever wins.

McCain must be an even-money bet to win the White House, ushering in what much of the world would perceive as nothing more than a third Bush term. If Obama recaptures his momentum and goes on to a historic November victory, the real and pressing challenges facing the US will make it almost impossible for him to meet the world's sky-high hopes for his transformative global leadership.

Amid the deepest economic downturn in a generation and still haunted by the attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans today are anxious about their future at home and abroad - a far cry from the supremely confident country that elected George Bush eight years ago.

More: http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/either-president-may-disappoint-us/2008/09/11/1220857737358.html

[Sukie]

1. Is it just me

cause I can't open the link. I would love to read the article.

[depakid]

6. Works on my end.

You can also try the search feature on the Sydney Morning Herald.

[barbtries]

2. it appears

that the rest of the world is collectively smarter than the american populace. we been dumbed down.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Too bad they can't vote in our election. We sure could benefit from those votes.

[Greyskye]

3. Visual of OP:

[TwilightGardener]

4. That's awesome. And so sadly true. Can't wait for the first pundit

who says this is "bad for Obama".

[depakid]

7. You might want to color in some of the nations who's prefer us bankrupt

as strong McCain.

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Yes, indeed. But your final emboldened sentence indicates that Americans

would, if anything, be less keen on a third "Bush term", i.e. under Cain and Unable, than the rest of the world. But of course, barring successful, massive, Republican, electoral fraud again, Obama, as President, is going to have a very hard row to hoe, like his counterparts, elsewhere.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. Shows how effectively they have wielded the propaganda through the corporate media. n/t

[codjh9]

10. Yeah, what do those percentages say about our dumb-ass public?