One American employee here seemed puzzled that he was being asked whether Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was even a consideration. "Obama was and is unstoppable," the official said. "Please, God, let him win," he added.
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"It would be hard to find anybody, I think, at the U.N. who would not believe that Obama would be a considerable improvement over any other alternative," said William H. Luers, executive director of the United Nations Association. "It's been a bad eight years, and there is a lot of bad feeling over it."
[...]
"We do not consider him an African American," said Congo's U.N. ambassador, Atoki Ileka. "We consider him an African."
[...]
"I have not heard a single person who will support McCain; if they do, they are in hiding..."
Actually, the WaPo did find a couple of McCain supporters at or at least somwhat affiliated with the UN. One was former UN ambassador John Bolton:
"The fact is that most conservatives, most Republicans don't worship at the altar in New York, and I think that aggravates them more than anything else," said John R. Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "What they want is the bending of the knee, and they'll get it from an Obama administration."
And there was also some pathetic unnamed American official I actually felt sorry for:
For the small minority of U.N. officials who have stuck with McCain -- only two of 28 U.N. officials and diplomats questioned said they favored the Arizona senator -- life in Turtle Bay can seem lonely. "I keep my mouth shut," said one American official here who plans to vote for McCain. "Everyone is knocking on wood, counting the days to the elections. Some Americans here are planning to move to Washington," in search of jobs in an Obama administration.
"It will be devastating if Obama loses," the official said. "There has been such an amount of faith placed on the outcome."
I don't doubt that it would be very devastating to a lot of people if Obama were to lose.
Considering the emotionaldevastation caused by Kerry's loss, I'm thinking it might make Bush Derangement Syndrome look like a walk in the park.
Of course, they could always keep the sorry site going, and recycle pictures like this:
While I should probably be more grateful that some of my fellow citizens are apparently willing to apologize on my behalf if McCain wins, I'm still not planning to apologize, no matter who wins.
posted by Eric on 10.26.08 at 11:21 PM
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The assertion that America has lost its standing in the world is founded primarily on our admittedly worse relationship with the UN. Secondly, we are less popular with people worldwide who really like the UN.
As the UN is made up of the self-appointed elites from each country - Arts & Humanities liberals from Europe, spies from communist and ex-communist nation, and organised crime in the various third-world kleptocracy - that's fine with me.
The assertion that America has lost its standing in the world is founded primarily on our admittedly worse relationship with the UN. Secondly, we are less popular with people worldwide who really like the UN.
As the UN is made up of the self-appointed elites from each country - Arts & Humanities liberals from Europe, spies from communist and ex-communist nation, and organised crime in the various third-world kleptocracy - that's fine with me.