World Hearts Obama

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 12:21 pm PDT • Views: 346

Every single person in the non-America world wants to see Barack Obama elected. OK, that’s a slight exaggeration.

22 countries in a BBC World Service poll would prefer Democratic nominee Barack Obama elected US president instead of his Republican rival John McCain. Obama is preferred by a four to one margin on average across the 22,000 people polled.

But then, a significant number of those non-Americans also think that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, there is no consensus outside the United States that Islamist militants from al Qaeda were responsible, according to an international poll published Wednesday.

The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people in 2001.

On average, 46 percent of those surveyed said al Qaeda was responsible, 15 percent said the U.S. government, 7 percent said Israel and 7 percent said some other perpetrator. One in four people said they did not know who was behind the attacks.

Coincidence, or simply cosmic alignments occurring on a plane beyond our limited perception?

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 Frank says:

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?