The World Loves Obama

[deception]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-popularity-boosts-us-image-abroad/article1228581/

The Pew report found that in 21 of the countries surveyed, an average of 71 per cent of respondents had at least some confidence in the U.S. president's handling of world affairs. In 2008, when Bush was in the White House, the figure in those same countries was only 17 per cent.

U.S. President Barack Obama's popularity has boosted America's image abroad even though deep suspicions about the U.S. persist in the Muslim world, according to a poll released Thursday.

The survey of two dozen nations conducted this spring by the non-partisan Pew Research Center found that positive public attitudes toward the United States have surged in many parts of the world since Mr. Obama's election.

Positive opinions about the United States have returned to higher levels not seen since before president George W. Bush took office in 2001. The Bush presidency marked a steep decline in U.S. popularity overseas, notably after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, because of a perception that the post-9/11 war on terrorism was targeted at Muslims.

“The image of the United States has improved markedly in most parts of the world, reflecting global confidence in Barack Obama,” the centre said in its annual Pew Global Attitudes Report.

The centre said the most profound shifts came in Western Europe, notably in France and Germany, where confidence in Mr. Obama exceeds that for French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In addition, U.S. favourability rose by at least 10 percentage points in 11 countries over last year, including in Latin America, Africa and Asia — largely as a result of Mr. Obama's election, the centre said.

The poll, which surveyed nearly 27,000 people, also found:

— While the U.S. image abroad has largely improved, foreign populations are still concerned about what they see as unilateralism on the part of the United States and the economic and cultural influence that America exerts across the world.

— Foreign publics have largely negative views of their own nations' economies, especially amid the global economic downturn.

— Huge majorities see global warming as a serious problem.

The polling was conducted from May 19-June 14, interviewing adults face to face in 18 countries and by telephone in the other seven.

The number interviewed in each country ranged from 700 in Japan to 3,169 in China. All samples were national except for China, Pakistan, India and Brazil, where the samples were mostly urban. The margins of sampling error were plus or minus 3 or 4 percentage points in every country but China and India, where it was 2 points.

 

[maxiep]

It's easy to get people to like you when you prostrate yourselves in front of them. Of course there are those of us who would rather live on our feet and make a stand for what's right.

 

[deception]

It's easy to get people to like you when you prostrate yourselves in front of them. Of course there are those of us who would rather live on our feet and make a stand for what's right.

im very suspicious of ppl who speak in moral declaratives. too bad ppl like u are on the wrong side of history

 

[maxiep]

im very suspicious of ppl who speak in moral declaratives. too bad ppl like u are on the wrong side of history

And I believe moral equivalence is a pathetic mindset. Too bad people like you no longer care to spell properly.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

How is that even relevant?

 

[deception]

And I believe moral equivalence is a pathetic mindset. Too bad people like you no longer care to spell properly.

ok.

 

[maxiep]

How is that even relevant?

The irony is thick in this post.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Haha, it's thick as shit.

 

[Denny Crane]

Goldman Sachs and all the former Goldman Sachs employees now working for the administration love Obama even more.