"Hello! I'm Swiss and I want you to vote for Obama!"

[CTyankee]

My French speaking Swiss ESOL student said this upon hearing that I was going to travel to New Hampshire this weekend to talk to women voters about McCain/Palin's view on womens' reproductive rights. Herve was very excited to hear this. He's a very political 18 year old and says "everyone" back in Lausanne is eager to have Obama become president!

So he wanted to go with us and talk to the voters himself. I thanked him for his enthusiasm. I am putting him in touch with our local Obama hq. I told him he could be helpful with computer work (we had a French student doing this at Ned Lamont's campaign hq back in 06).

P.S. He pronounces "Obama" as "ObaMA."

P.P.S. His newspaper in Lausanne did cover the "lipstick on a pig" issue but did not explain what it meant. So I did. He looked stunned.

[BlueInPhilly]

1. I have a great idea...

remember in 2004 after Bush "won" and there was a site where intelligent Americans posted pictures with "I'm sorry world" - how about the opposite - now a site with pictures from all over the world with folks asking Americans to vote for Obama? I'm not savvy enough to start something like that, but maybe someone can?

[CTyankee]

2. It would be huge. But then the media would say that "Americans don't like Europeans telling them

who to vote for."

[BlueInPhilly]

4. I'm pretty sure the response would be universal...

not only Europeans but Asia and Africa as well. Maybe not so much India - they'd lose out without the outsourcing.

[OnionPatch]

6. I think I read Obama support was only 8% in India

They were the least supportive of Obama. (And one of the few countries whose majority didn't support him.) We should actually use this stat to show American workers who is the most willing to outsource our jobs. The Indians know if McCain is elected, American middle-class jobs will continue to bleed to them just as they have for the last decade or so.

[Celebrandil]

5. Better wait until after

I agree. That's something I've never understood in America, how being popular in the world can be something negative. Here in Sweden Obama is terribly popular. Even other (right wing) prime minister endorses Obama. McCain is not even on the map. I saw some unknown fellow endorsing McCain in a financial daily some weeks ago, but that's about it.

[zeemike]

7. It is only negative because the right wing hate machine makes it

so. to them you are all communists or socialists with a desire to make the world a dictatorship.
I suspect that a Conservative there is a moderate liberal here.
Most thinking people want the support of other countries.

[Sodan]

3. Would rather wait for a "We're so happy!" - website after the election /nt

[L0oniX]

8. Hello, I am American and I want to move to your country...

before it's too late to do so here.