Not sure about Barack Obama?  Something just not settling in right?  Consider the following.  And remember these aren’t my words.

World Citizens Prefer Obama to McCain by Nearly 4-to-1
Gallup
Gallup Polls conducted in 70 countries from May to September 2008 reveal widespread international support for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama over Republican Sen. John McCain in the U.S. presidential election. Among these nations, representing nearly half of the world’s population, 30% of citizens say they would personally rather see Obama elected president of the United States, compared with just 8% who say the same about McCain. At the same time, 62% of world citizens surveyed did not have an opinion.

Okay, I just have to ask.  How many wars have we fought for the right for the world not to tell us how to live our lives?  And on that list of 70 countries, how many of their backsides have we pulled out the fire with our blood and money?

If the United States wants to elect Barack Obama (and for the life of me, I’ll never understand why), it should not be because the world tells us to.

Or these people either for that matter…

Fidel Castro: Obama “without doubt is, from the social and human point, the most advanced candidate” running for the U.S. presidency…”I feel no resentment towards him, for he is not responsible for the crimes perpetrated against Cuba and humanity,” [Reuters and L.A. Times]

Jeremiah Wright: “This ordinary boy [Obama] just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania legally,” Wright said, referring to Michelle Obama, in a sermon at the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston. [New York Post]

Communist Party USA:  Eye on the Prize
If Obama’s candidacy represented nothing more than the spark for this profound initiative to unite the working class and defeat the pernicious influence of racism, it would be a transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term. [H/T Sweetness & Light]

Louis Farrakhan: “This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better.  This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed…A black man with a white mother became a savior to us…” [H/T The Belmont Club]

Jim And Sarah Brady, Brady Campaign Endorse Barack Obama And Joe Biden
Washington, D.C. – Sarah and Jim Brady and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence with its network of Million Mom March Chapters endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President and Senator Joseph Biden for Vice President today, and urged Americans to vote for them.

Kofi Annan: When asked if the United States and the world was ready for a black US president, he said: “I think it would be a phenomenal change for the US and for the world. “It would introduce a new dynamics (sic) and a new relationship between the US and the world. Whoever wins this presidency will have to come out prepared to work in partnership with the rest of the world,” he told reporters. [AFP]

Hamas terrorists make 2008 U.S. presidential pick
“We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections,” Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas’ top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, said in an exclusive interview with WND and with the John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio in New York. [World Net Daily]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: In response to a question from an American student about whether he supports Democratic nominee Barack Obama or Republican John McCain, Ahmadinejad did not explicitly name Obama but said: “The American government 28 years ago decided on its own to cut its ties with Iran . . .We do prefer to have relations, whereas one of the candidates in this election would prefer that.” [Boston Globe]

Kim Jong Il: The Chosun Sinbo, the mouthpiece of North Korea’s Japanese front organization Chongryon and often for the North Korean regime itself, has announced its preference for Obama over McCain, whom it calls “a variant of Bush” and “nothing better than a scarecrow of neoconservatives,” which is a bit odd considering that the Bush Administration’s giveaway diplomacy is better for Kim Jong Il than even Clinton’s awful performance. [H/T Michelle Malkin]

Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi: There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency. But we were taken by surprise when our African Kenyan brother, who is an American national, made statements that shocked all his supporters in the Arab world, in Africa, and in the Islamic world. We hope that this is merely an elections “clearance sale,” as they say in Egypt – in other words, merely an elections lie. As you know, this is the farce of elections – a person lies and lies to people, just so that they will vote for him, and afterwards, when they say to him: :”You promised this and that,” he says: “No, this was just elections propaganda.” This is the farce of democracy for you. He says: “This was propaganda, and you thought I was being serious. I was fooling you to get your votes.” [MEMRI]

Jessie Jackson: He promised “fundamental changes” in US foreign policy – saying America must “heal wounds” it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the “arrogance of the Bush administration.”  The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where “decades of putting Israel’s interests first” would end. [The New York Post]