Cafferty: Why Do Citizens in 70 Countries Prefer Obama?

From the Cafferty File.

Senator John McCain says when it comes to foreign policy hes light years ahead of Barack Obama. Over and over again, McCain has insisted Obama lacks the necessary experience to conduct business with foreign countries on behalf of the United States.

So how do you explain this?

Citizens of dozens of foreign countries prefer Barack Obama over John McCain as our next president by a margin of almost 4 to 1, according to a massive poll conducted by the Gallup Organization. About 30 percent of those surveyed prefer Obama, while just 8 percent favor McCain.

This was no daily tracking poll either. Gallup polled people in 70 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and North and South America, representing nearly half the worlds population, between May and September of this year.

Citizens of the Philippines and Georgia were the only ones who preferred McCain to Obama. Not exactly the super-powers were looking to mend fences with.

Heres my question to you: Why do citizens in 70 foreign countries prefer Barack Obama to John McCain by a margin of nearly 4-1?

Interested to know which ones made it on air?


Justin from North Carolina writes:
Barack Obama is the candidate of reason. Only a fool would think of supporting the ticket with the oldest presidential nominee and a woefully inept vice presidential candidate are in the best interest of America or the world especially when the current disaster of a president proves to be more coherent than the both of them.

Kevin writes:
They prefer him because hes a patsy and they know hes going to pander to them. Kennedy was on medication during meetings with Khrushchev and Khrushchev called him a pygmy. No fear whatsoever. Good thing Kennedy did stand up to him during the Cuban missile crisis. Obama needs some testosterone shots. Putin, Chavez, the Castros, the Girl Scouts of Chinaanybody could chew him up, push him around, and spit him out.

F.S. from Rollinsford, N.H. writes:
Jack, just to let you know that from my wifes and my visit to Europe for 3 weeks just recently, we couldnt find anyone in 4 countries that wanted McCain for President. They all think he is warmonger and that Palin is a joke. Do they know something we dont?

Jackie writes:
To be fair, I think McCains negativity rests with the R after his name. He is a decent man who, because of his age and knowing this is his last chance, sold his soul to the Republican National Committee.

Mike writes:
Its simple. It may sound racist, but its really not. Foreign countries are tired of old white men bossing them around and looking down on them. They finally see someone who will respect & approach them as equals.

Zach writes:
Lets see, Jackwhere to beginThey dont want to get bombed? They want to work with a well-spoken, even-keel U.S. President for a change? Theyre smarter than almost half of the people in our own country?

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[Oscar1466]

WARNING!! Bush will ONLY SUPPORT the candidate who will continue his policies to SLAVE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

[DarkestOne7]

republicans r retards

[jwh30385]

@Stifsim6 That's the general idea. If you're isolationist and have a good defense, you don't have to give a crap. But when your entire defense and foreign policy is built on the foundation of having military bases in 82 different countries, you're completely dependent on the host country's willingness to allow your base on their soil. Imagine France had a big base in Kentucky, and the French President started pissing Americans off and saying "I don't give a shit what Americans think."

[Stifsim6]

@jwh30385 ...I would agree with your point, however my first choice would be to bring all foreign-based troops home. They would be better serving here on the homefront, some building fence. I dream of more international solitude, admiring how often Switzerland comes up in the news.

[dalmatian847]

@jwh30385 In 2006 , when the debt ceiling was raised, Senator Obama voted NO. His exact words were "this represents a failure of leadership" Now President Obama supports the debt ceiling raised to levels unseen.

If it was a failure in leadership then, what does it represent now?

[dalmatian847]

@jwh30385 Incorrect. on both accounts. The unemployment rate when Obama was inauguarated. 6.8%. It's been decreasing YET is the longest stretch of time of above 9% unemployment since the Great Depression. Then again, when you count those whose unemployment benefits have run out as if they are now suddenly employed, that's not surprising...or accurate.

What "first trillion dollar stimulus" did Bush sign exactly? The stimulus was pushed and passed by Obama on a partisan vote. That's ALL on him.

[jwh30385]

@MetalEagle95 "War is good, healthcare is bad." "Cut the military budget and you're a socialist anti-American. Take money from education and spend it on war, and you're an American hero."

I'll never understand this.

[jwh30385]

@dalmatian847 The deficit grew rapidly during Clinton's first years too. He still left the office 8 years later with the greatest budget surplus in US history.

Exactly what do you expect? A guy to enter the White House and say "all accounts are now frozen!"

[jwh30385]

@dalmatian847 Correction #1: Unemployment rate on 2/1/2009 was 8.9%, went up to 10.6% and has been decreasing since January 2010 (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Correction #2: Bush pleaded for, and signed, the first trillion dollar stimulus.

[jwh30385]

@Stifsim6 Because America can't really do much but return to isolationism if the prime minister of (enter country of choice) will lose the next election for allowing American military bases on its soil. That's one example out of many.

[Stifsim6]

@Integraalhelm ---News flash for you...he's a divider of the people, and will likely get ousted at the next election cycle. Whatever news you are getting in the Netherlands doesn't tell the whole story. For the record, Obama is as unqualified and arrogant as McCain is old, feeble and scary. Our country deserves better than either of these twits.

[Stifsim6]

Who gives a shit what people in other countries think of our President?! I do not stay awake at night worrying who the Prime Minister of (enter counrty of choice) is...that's their issue, good or bad.

For the record, Obama and McCain are both bad jokes...anyone really worth having is entirely too smart to run for the office.

Sad, really, isn't it?