The World Votes For Obama

Should we care what the world thinks about our presidential candidates?

The latest data come courtesy of the BBC, which commissioned a survey of 23,531 people in 22 countries for their views about the U.S. election. The not-so-astounding result: Barack Obama is the favorite in all 22 countries.

The answer is yes and it's all the more reason we should elect Mc'Cain. The rest of the world answers that question based on their interests, not ours. And it's obvious they would like to see us weaker and more like them, especially in Europe, where resentment of America has more to do with embarrassment over their own inadequacies and feelings of schadenfreude than anything we've done. Who they would call when there's trouble with say, Russia or Iran, doesn't seem to occur to the continent that gave us Hitler, Stalin and Marx.

"Consider another global survey, this one from the University of Maryland-based WorldPublicOpinion.org, concerning the perpetrators of 9/11. Out of the 17 countries surveyed, majorities in only nine of them believed that al Qaeda was responsible for the attacks. In Turkey, a longstanding NATO ally, 36% believed that the U.S. government was the culprit. In Egypt, 43% blamed Israel.

More remarkably, a mere 56% of Britons, 63% of the French and 64% of Germans named al Qaeda, while 26% said they "do not know." Fully 23% of the German public blames the U.S. government, as do 15% of Italians."

There must be a lot of Alex Jones fans out there. I'm not going to consider seriously the opinion of overseas lunatics anymore than I do the ones we have right here.