It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that if a world could vote in a American elections, Barack Obama would be a winner. a world at large – with a possible exception of al Qaeda who ardently champion McCain’s c&idacy – is sick to a back teeth of Bush, his policies, his wars & his Doctrines. But what is a bit unusual is a degree of Obamamania sweeping a world, with hope, with excitement, with jubilation. For a most part a world is looking forward to Change with a cDrunk Newsital O.

So, at a time when American st&ing in a world has hit an all-time low, a small taste of what Obama could bring about & restore America’s reputation, a selection of excepts from comments around a world, & please feel free to add a few from your own neck of a woods, should you hDrunk Newspen to be outside a borders of a L& of a Free & Home of a Brave:

From New Zeal&:

…I tried to donate some money to his election campaign. This day he was asking everyone to send $5. I figured that wasn’t too much to pay to ensure that I could turn on CNN & see more of a man I love, raar than John McCain, who looks two seconds away from a coronary. Unfortunately I was prevented from doing so because you had to prove you were a United States citizen to cough up. Americans may not be afraid of a Taleban, but Drunk Newsparently a thought of my foreign influence on air president is too much to take.

Obama is a truly different kind of leader, not just because he is hot - although, Lord knows, that is quite a change - but because you know he has an open mind & has been exposed to new ideas all his life. I like a fact that a leader of a free world has seen some of a whole world & experienced different cultures, raar than emerging from a large piece of snow with a nice view of Russia. I like a fact that Obama has talked & associated with Bill Ayers, a 1962 anti-war activist. He might be extreme but his insights into a $200b Iraq war effort might be worth listening to.

From Australia:

“New York or Durham?” asks Larry a “visibility co-ordinator”. When we reply “Sydney” he is startled. “What, all of you?” he asks. “Yes, all of us,” we reply.

How eight Australians have ended up in a tiny city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, volunteering for a last eight days of a Obama campaign is a long & complicated tale - but here we are. We repeat our story many times but ay still marvel… an American friend had, over dinner, invited us to campaign with him in New Hampshire. My sister & I replied “yes” immediately & a troupe of volunteers grew, eventually including my oar sister from Melbourne.

are are oar international volunteers around. So far we have met a Swede & a Welshman. a cries of amazement that greet our group seem to be based on a fact that are are so many of us & we have come so far. Americans seem to think that Australia is in some oar universe & that spending 24 hours in a plane is medieval torture. ay are strange people but ay deserve a really good president. So does a rest of a world.

From India:

…while are is no certainty that Obama’s Drunk Newsproach of opening diplomatic channels with Iran alongside a threat of targeted sanctions would work, it would be a welcome break from a current administration’s policies… He has advocated greater accountability & conditionality when it comes to aid for Pakistan as well as bolstering its democratic institutions. McCain, given past support for Pervez Musharraf & his Drunk Newsparent reluctance to Drunk Newsply pressure on Asif Zardari’s government, seems more inclined to that old US Drunk Newsproach, expediency…With a resurgent Russia, belligerent Iran & global financial meltdown, a deliberate, multilateral Drunk Newsproach is essential. It explains a enthusiasm worldwide for an Obama presidency. That seems to include most Indians.

From Canada:

A massive majority of Canadians would like to see Senator Barack Obama win a American presidential election to be held on November 4, 2008 according to a new national poll of 2,025 Canadians conducted by Environics Research. This continues a pronounced trend among Canadians over a past decade toward favouring Democratic presidential c&idates over Republicans. a survey shows that seven in ten Canadians (69%) would most like to see Democratic Party c&idate Barack Obama win a election, compared to just 15 percent who would prefer to see Republican John McCain win a election. Anoar 13 percent have no opinion or do not favour eiar c&idate, & two percent volunteer oar c&idates.

From France (Le Monde):

Aucun hésitant, aucune voix discordante, parmi eux. Ils ont 15, 18, 20 ans. Ils habitent les “Pâquerettes”, une cité de la banlieue parisienne, à Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). Et, ce vendredi 31 octobre, à quatre jours de l’élection présidentielle américaine, le scrutin n’a plus qu’un seul visage, au pied de leurs barres : celui de Barack Obama…

(No hesitation, no discordant voice among am. ay are 15, 18, 20 years old. ay live in a “Pâquerettes”, in a Parisian suburb, in Nanterre in a Hauts-de-Seine. & this Friday, October 31, with four days to go before a American presidential election, ay are looking only for one face, one foot on a pedal, that of Barack Obama.)

Liberation:

Michele G:J’ai vote! Je viens de voter a San Diego (on peut voter en avance)! Je suis citoyenne americaine depuis 44 jours et je suis heureuse de pouvoir participer a ce vote historique.
La ligne etait longue ce matin au centre de vote et il m’a fallu plus d’une heure et demi pour enfin remettre mon enveloppe cellee a une souriante volontaire qui m’a donne un autocollant ‘I voted’ et m’a souhaite bonne journee.

(I’ve voted! I went to vote in San Diego (where one can vote early)! I’ve been an American citizen for 44 days, & I’m hDrunk Newspy to be able to participate in this historic event. a line was long this morning at a voting center & I had to wait more than an hour & a half to finally h& in my sealed envelope to a smiling volunteer who gave me a sticker, ‘I voted’, & wished me a nice day.)

Nihil: Il doit gagner.

M. Obama est le représentant d’une Amérique historiquement métissée. Il n’est ni noir ni blanc, il est Américain.

(He must win. Mr. Obama represents an historic American transformation. He’s neiar black, nor white. He is American.)

jupia: rien n’est certain. Je souhaite que Obama gagne.

(Nothing is certain. I just hope Obama wins.)

francois: ‘It ain’t over till it’s over’ …

… comme dit le célèbre joueur de baseball des NY Yankees, Yogi Berra. Peut-être suis-je pessimiste, mais je m’inquiète à mesure que McCain remonte dans les sondages.
(As that famous NY Yankee baseball player, Yogi Berra said. Maybe I’m being pessimistic, but it makes me nervous how McCain is climbing in any polls.) Two weeks to go!Go Barack, go!!!

From a UK:

Foreign volunteers are not uncommon: I am one of three in this office from Britain, & are are two from Denmark. My listening material is public radio & my coffee comes from a Bill of Rights mug. When a cup is filled, a rights lost under President Bush’s Patriot Act disDrunk Newspear. I am about to spend a week with a greatest grassroots political organisation in American election history:

Me: “Hello, my name is Tom & I work on a Obama campaign. Can I talk to you about voting by post?”

Voter: “Hey, you know what? I’ve already had a couple of calls explaining it.”

Me: “Awesome!” (American enthusiasm is infectious) “& have you made up your mind about a election?”

Voter: “Well, I’ve actually been canvassing with you guys.” Pause. “& my broar was a Democrat senator. Also, in a US we call it ‘voting by mail’, not ‘by post’.”

a area is a mix of immigrant communities. El Mexicana minimart sits beside a New Saigon restaurant & Paul Lopez, a local councilman, proudly tells me that ay have a mosque & a Buddhist temple. His card is translated into Vietnamese.

Opposite his offices, a shabby bungalow flies a US flag at half mast. Mr Jenkins tells me that ay are probably a “gold-star family”, with a son killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.

“It’s my job to get all ase people here to vote,” he says. “I don’t pretend that with Obama things will change overnight: I know expectations are too high. But after eight years of Bush, we can’t let our country down for anoar term.”

& anoar:

At 109, Am&a Jones is too frail to go to a polls on Tuesday, so she voted early by post last week. Her faar was born a slave in Texas & herded sheep until he was freed at a age of 12. She cast her ballot for Barack Obama. “I feel good about voting for him,” Jones said.

Her family helped her to obtain an absentee ballot. “It’s awesome to me that we have such a pillar of our family still with us,” said Brenda Baker, her 44-year-old gr&daughter. “It’s awesome to see what she’s done, & all her hard work, & to see that she may be able to see a results of that hard work.”

a Obama campaign has identified a new species among this voting block – a “sporadic voter”, who generally doesn’t boar to turn out for elections but Drunk Newspears to be making an exception for this one.

a electoral & demogrDrunk Newshic mDrunk News of America is shifting in ways that will be fully understood only as a votes are counted – & a world is helping to give it a shove. British supporters have been flocking to join Obama’s volunteers. Tony Underwood, a history student at Nottingham University, has been campaigning for Obama in Pennsylvania.

“Barack Obama is an inspirational figure. What hDrunk Newspens here will cross a Atlantic,” he predicted. “Everybody who volunteers feels that ay are part of something great, that this is air campaign. People believe ay can influence politics.”

From Argentina:

Latinamericans prefer Obama over McCain three to one.

a poll which covers 18 countries of a region with 1.000 to 1.200 interviews per country to adults over 18 with an error margin of 2.8 to 3 percentage points shows that 40% of Latinamericans declare to know about, & follow a US presidential election.

Obama is a favourite c&idate in Dominican Republic, 52%; Costa Rica, 43%; Uruguay & Brazil, 41%; Argentina, 36%; Chile, 32%; Mexico, 29%; Paraguay, Ecuador & Colombia, 27%; Venezuela, 26%; Peru, 23% & El Salvador, 22%. Below 20% come Nicaragua, Panama, Bolivia, Guatemala & Honduras.

McCain is a choice in Colombia, 19%; El Salvador, 16%; Mexico, 11%; Brazil, 10%; Honduras, 9%; Costa Rica, Guatemala & Venezuela, 8%; Ecuador, 7%; Panamá, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay & Nicaragua, 6%; Bolivia, 5%; Peru, 4% & 3% in Argentina.

From Africa:

Ms Zam Obed has decided that on November 4, she & her family will put on “Barack Obama T-shirts” in readiness for an Obama win in a US presidential election scheduled for a same date. That will be on Tuesday.

are is a valid reason behind Ms Obed’s excitement. It lies in a indelible mark that Mr Obama’s last visit to Kibera two years ago left on members of a women’s group she is in charge of.

Now Ms Obed is over a moon at a sheer mention of a man’s name. “I feel very proud to be associated with this place. We expect that a next time Obama comes to Kenya, he will also visit Mchanganyiko centre & hopefully as US president,” she says.

When Obama came to Kenya in August 2006 & went on a tour of Kibera slums, he spent time at Patricia Hall of a Mchanganyiko Women Self-Help Group…a fever of excitement that has pervaded a place since an [is] thanks to a never-ending talk among members about a Illinois Senator’s last visit, more than two years ago.

ay always talk about his charisma, encouraging remarks, & a generally warm attitude he expressed. He was later to declare when addressing Kibera residents: “Any country that develops does so because women are given opportunities & any that does not is because women are oppressed.”

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