{"id":30797,"date":"2012-10-23T21:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T03:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/speaking-of-foreign-policy-and-the-candidates.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:20:45","slug":"speaking-of-foreign-policy-and-the-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/speaking-of-foreign-policy-and-the-candidates.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of foreign policy and the candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, that people polled in both China and France prefer Obama to Romney probably wouldn&#39;t do Obama much good among the American electorate. In fact, probably the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>(Not surprising the Pakistanis are the only ones polled who prefer Obama less. That&#39;s because Romney isn&#39;t lobbing drones into their country. Yet.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103583939320326217147\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"103583939320326217147\">Koushik Dutta<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103583939320326217147'>Koushik Dutta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2012\/10\/23\/154592330_custom-bd584e4689166accd62d9d0f7e5f9fa0f92dbdbf-s2.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/10\/23\/163473712\/if-the-world-picked-u-s-president-obama-would-win-by-a-landslide'>If The World Picked U.S. President, Election Would Be A Blowout : NPR<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOut of 21 countries surveyed in a BBC World Service poll, only Pakistan chose Romney over Obama. The president enjoyed his greatest support in France.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cU3fSeMcHYh' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cU3fSeMcHYh' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, that people polled in both China and France prefer Obama to Romney probably wouldn&#39;t do Obama much good among the American electorate. In fact, probably the opposite. (Not surprising the Pakistanis are the only ones polled who prefer Obama less. That&#39;s because Romney isn&#39;t lobbing drones into their country. Yet.) (h\/t +Koushik Dutta) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/speaking-of-foreign-policy-and-the-candidates.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaking of foreign policy and the candidates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30451,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/02\/also-obama-is-responsible-for-tornadoes-and-spiders.html","url_meta":{"origin":30797,"position":0},"title":"Also, Obama is responsible for tornadoes. 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