If Foreigners Could Vote in '08

[Xenotime]

Source: Wall St. Journal

For America's presidential candidates, the global electoral map is looking as divided as the domestic one.

When foreigners look at the three contenders, Sen. Barack Obama seems to have the lead among Europeans and Africans. Sen. Hillary Clinton is popular among Mexicans and Chinese. Sen. John McCain just returned from a campaign swing through the Middle East and Europe.

U.S. presidential contests often attract interest from foreign countries. The world's sole superpower has such an impact on the globe that, as a Belgian newspaper recently suggested, the rest of the world may feel it should be allowed to vote, too.



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Hmm.. Interesting concept.

[Orsino]

1. Given the influence we have wielded in foreign governments...

...it's not a bad idea.

[izquierdista]

2. World's sole superpower

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Can't provide for its own energy needs.
Can't save one of its large cities from a hurricane.
Its currency is on the slow and steady decline.
It ranks 37th in health care.

Yea, some superpower all right.

[Tesha]

5. Nukes make Right. (NT)

[FightTheRight89]

9. You're going to deny that we're the most important country in the world?

Seriously, we have problems, but America is still the most powerful country in the world, no matter which way you slice it: Militarily, politically, culturally. And we still stand for democracy... I don't know how many nations can claim to be the standard bearer for political liberalism. I don't know how many nations can claim to be the standard bearer for ANYTHING. And that's why we're the sole superpower.

[sutz12]

3. If they could vote, Shrub would be unemployed in Texas now.

:shrug:

[Taverner]

6. If they could vote, Shrub would be executed in the Hague now

[Flagg]

7. They don't execute people in the Hague

and life imprisonment without the possibility of parole would be a more suting punishment for Bush anyway.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. USA is NOT the world's "sole superpower"

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Just the most aggressive.

This will change.

Soon.

[emperor124]

8. If the rest of the world could vote Shrub would never have made it past the primaries it 2000