La France vote Obama

[europegirl4jfk]

69 % of French people would vote for Obama, only 5 % for McCain.

80 % would be ready to elect a black candidate the President of France


From a French AP article:

"Si les Français votaient le 4 novembre, c'est un raz-de-marée qui porterait Barack Obama à la Maison blanche. Pour la première fois depuis le conflit autour de la guerre en Irak en 2003, le candidat démocrate semble en position de réconcilier la France avec l'Amérique, même si son éventuelle victoire pourrait signifier aussi quelques désillusions."


Translation:

"If the French could vote on November 4th, a landslide would carry Barack Obama to the White House. For the first time since the conflict surrounding the Iraq War in 2003, the Democratic candidate seems to be in the position to reconcile France and the USA, even if a presumptive victory could also mean some desillusionment."


The article continues to say that Obama is favored by a left-to-right spectrum of French political parties and that he had been welcomed with open arms by the French citizens as well during his short visit ot Paris last summer (in contrast to Bush to whom the French always react with hostile protest).

Even French President Nicolas Sarkozy who likes America has subtly made known that he prefers Obama over McCain. He knows that the French public would accept his pro-America positions much easier with a President Obama than a President McCain.

And even if Obama's and McCain's positions are the same concerning climate change and the closing of Guantanamo, what makes the French easily favor Obama is the fact that he was against the Iraq war since the beginning and has a plan to bring it to an end, as it was this war indeed, that caused the rift between the French and the Americans in the first place.


Read the whole article in French here:

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20081102/twl-usa-presidentielle-france-224d7fb.html

[amdezurik]

1. all I know is, the last few time I was in Paris

or London or Amsterdam I felt a real need to apologize for dumbaya, not that anyone forced me to, just that I knew we were fucking up the world so badly. It will be nice in Feb when I go back to be able to toast our president!

[europegirl4jfk]

3. Europe is really looking forward to Obama

... to be the next President of the US. I live in France but I travel a lot in Europe and it's the same everywhere. There is the same euphoria here as in the USA. You guys are really making history on Tuesday!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Obama will have an army of supporters throughout the world

I anticipate that he will try to mobilize that army to do the greater good especially here at home, in a kind of "ask what you can do for your country" way. He's going to get tremendous opposition from the remaining right wingers the day he takes office, especially in talk radio land. I think we need to continue the campaign past November 4th into a permanent effort to support him and to denounce those forces that would try to impede his agenda.