Russians Love Obama?
In Digging the awesome post at Chris Merriman.com on a Russian solider who covered Eminem’s Stan in a video showing the squalor of the Russian army and got exiled for dishonoring the image of the Army, I found a YouTube video of a Russian guy praising Barak Obama and disparaging John McCain.
At first I thought the video was an American making of Russians but I am pretty sure that this guy is Russian from his accent, his intonations, his inconsistent grammar mistakes (he makes a mistake, then the next time he doesn’t make the mistake), and the fact that in the middle of the video, a colleague approaches him and shakes his hand! Only in the former Soviet Union can a good morning handshake not wait for anything! It’s not particularly funny if it really is a Russian, so I think it is meant to be a sincere endorsement of Obama-but primarily because he is afraid McCain will start a war with Russia; it’s more anti-McCain than pro-Obama.
So I’m curious, is Obama more popular with foreigners? Who do you guys support and why? Is it a question of supporting one candidate or disliking the other candidate?
Here’s the video:
The best line is probably, “The next time you see McCain, you tell him ‘Go on dick’; it mean something like ‘Fuck you!’ but Russian style.”
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Comment by raul — 1 October 2008 @ 5:57 pm
In case others are interested what that last comment said…
“I love visiting your blog every day. Please do visit mine and leave a comment if you like, do you want to swap links?”
(paraphrased from an online translation tool).
Comment by ChrisM — 1 October 2008 @ 10:19 pm
I enjoyed your article and included it in my Blog Carnival (seen at http://cindyking.biz/international-marketer-review-blog-carnival-20/) .
Also, I stumbled this post
Comment by Cindy King — 4 October 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Obama is more popular with everyone!
Funny to see you mention Chris, I know him through social media.
dropped an EC and stumbled.
Comment by cheap keywords — 4 October 2008 @ 7:02 pm
Raul: Mucho gracias for the note.
Cindy King: Thanks so much for including me and the stumble! I look forward to reading all the posts on that carnival!
Cheap keywords: Thanks for the EC and the stumble!
Comment by KZBlog — 5 October 2008 @ 3:15 pm