The best reason to vote against Obama

I saw this over at Little Green Footballs. It seems the whole world is excited that the Democrats nominated Barack Obama as their candidate (AP link);

Excitement about Barack Obama emerged as a global phenomenon Wednesday as commentators and citizens around the world welcomed the news that he had sealed the Democratic presidential nomination.

The excitement was less about Obama’s foreign policies — which remain vague on many fronts — than a sense that the candidacy of a black American with relatives in Africa and childhood friends in Asia marks a historic moment.

Michael Cox, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, said Obama’s win “has sent out a lot of positive signals around the world.”

“He has a very appealing persona — elegant, fluent, strings lots of sentences together into paragraphs,” Cox said. “But in terms of (his) actual policies towards the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, China, Europe — actually, we don’t know.”

One thing I learned in all of the years I’ve lived outside the United States is that when foreigners are happy with our government, it’s because our government is doing something against our own interests.

They claim that they don’t know anything about Obama’s policies towards the rest of the planet, but they really do. He’s going to give them our stuff. Obama won’t hesitate to trade off our national security for a moment’s smile at the camera. He’ll drag bags of money to North Korea like Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. He’ll make empty promises to Africans and throw our tax payers dollars at them…like Bill Clinton.

See, we Americans need a President who’ll represent us on the world stage, because the whole rest of the world wants our stuff…free. And if our President is dead set towards pleasing the rest of the world, we’re going to be out there all by ourselves, cuz there’ll be no one between us and the world treating us like a gigantic rummage sale.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Politics