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Baloney.  Don't put the problems with banks in other countries on us.  In fact, I suspect that the idea for the subprime thing that Barney Frank was pushing came from Europe first.

Sure, it was the European real estate market that sucked up the US money.
It was completely the other way round. Americas banking system cried out about a year ago that the system is going to fail because of foul credits and overdebted real estates (up to 10 times real worth).

European banks pushed in their money, well knowing that if the US financial system breaks down the rest of the world goes with them. One of the stranger things here was the German KFW-Bank which transferred 300 million € to Lehman Bros. on the day they declared bankruptcy.
For Germany this means (as far as we know up to now) German banks gave the US banks 1.000 Billion € and bought foul credits for this. This money is lost.
Yesterday the German parliament decided to help with 500 billion € to keep the financial system working. This money is probably lost.
Means: Germany alone spent 1.5 Trillion € on your houses. So now please don't come here and say we started it.
This is 100% US American homebrew. But it's like CocaCola, all the world drinks it too.

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I would have voted for John McCain.
Obama has no experience whatsoever, unlike McCain.
Sure, Obama has all the talk, but can he do the walk? highly doubtful !

And don't let me start about his so called "questionable connections" with extremists.

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Sorry, but I do not need yours or any other non-U.S. citizen's opinion in order to know what is best for the U.S.  I honestly couldn't care less who you would like to see as President.

I'm not sure what the OP had in mind, but to me the question seems to be what do we think would be best for the rest of the world.

The US has great power. With great power comes great responsibility. This power and this responsibility goes way beyond the borders of the US. So it's quite reasonable that those of us who don't get to vote can still have an opinion.

If you don't want to hear that opinion, that's sad, but that's your prerogative. There's no need to be rude about it, though.

Sorry, but this election is for the American people, under American law, for leader of America.  Whether or not that effects other countries is only germaine insofar as the actions of new president pertain to foreign treaties and alliances and to our effects on Global warming and our financial and trade policies. Our military strategy in Iraq /Afghanistan etc .  Now, if you think the well-being of your country is affected to some extent by who becomes president, then that is because of arrangements YOUR country has entered into with the US.  Even then, it still doesn't give you the right to criticize our choice, or the way we go about making that choice.  Anything else is interference in our process, and that is not the way to endear yourselves to the American public or our leaders.

You've missed off a bit.

No, I haven't.  Global warning is a bunch of BS, and you lot were standing around picking your noses while Saddam and the Taliban were hosting terrorists that far too many times came over to YOUR neck of the woods and blew things up.  It took the US to go in and try to do something about it.  As usual, Europe reaps the benefits of our largess while expending little or no treasure of its own on the problem.  And then you have the gaul to stand around and complain about us.

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Sorry, but I do not need yours or any other non-U.S. citizen's opinion in order to know what is best for the U.S.  I honestly couldn't care less who you would like to see as President.

I'm not sure what the OP had in mind, but to me the question seems to be what do we think would be best for the rest of the world.

The US has great power. With great power comes great responsibility. This power and this responsibility goes way beyond the borders of the US. So it's quite reasonable that those of us who don't get to vote can still have an opinion.

If you don't want to hear that opinion, that's sad, but that's your prerogative. There's no need to be rude about it, though.

Sorry, but this election is for the American people, under American law, for leader of America.  Whether or not that effects other countries is only germaine insofar as the actions of new president pertain to foreign treaties and alliances and to our effects on Global warming and our financial and trade policies. Our military strategy in Iraq /Afghanistan etc .  Now, if you think the well-being of your country is affected to some extent by who becomes president, then that is because of arrangements YOUR country has entered into with the US.  Even then, it still doesn't give you the right to criticize our choice, or the way we go about making that choice.  Anything else is interference in our process, and that is not the way to endear yourselves to the American public or our leaders.

You've missed off a bit.

No, I haven't.  Global warning is a bunch of BS, and you lot were standing around picking your noses while Saddam and the Taliban were hosting terrorists that far too many times came over to YOUR neck of the woods and blew things up.  It took the US to go in and try to do something about it.  As usual, Europe reaps the benefits of our largess while expending little or no treasure of its own on the problem.  And then you have the gaul to stand around and complain about us.

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You have also requested (and gotten) assistence in fighting taliban in Afghanistan. Or are you saying we should just pack up and let you deal with it yourself? Somehow that is not really the message I get from your president (current or either of candidates).

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Iran has as much nuclear weapons as Iraq had biological and chemical weapons.

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And have you forgotten that they ACTUALLY USED chemical weapons on the Kurds?

That were the Turks, not the Iraqis. Didn't make any difference for the Kurds though.