Why The World Doesn't Vote For President

The Independent in the UK has a wonderful little column on their website which I found to be just a regular riot.

If the human race as a whole, rather than 50 states plus the District of Colombia, could cast a ballot this coming November, John Kerry would surely win the presidency by a landslide.

Unfortunately for President Bush-haters around the world, only the 200 million United States citizens of voting age will have that right...

Well, how 'bout that? Only Americans can vote for the American President. How quaint!

The problem that I have with columns and articles like this is that, in this matter, the opinion of the rest of the world doesn't matter. The President of the United States is elected to promote and defend the United States of America, period. He is not chosen to be the head global citizen. He is not chosen on his ability to get along with others. He is chosen to work for America first - and only.

Now quite often our goals line up with the rest of the world's and the President can find ways to work with others and to generally be a nice, multilaterelist guy. But in the end, he still needs to watch out for America's interests and only America's interests.

Listening to John "I'm-not-a-Frenchman,-I-want-to-be-the-second-black-President" Kerry, I don't think that he's capable of putting America first. I think that the idea of coalition and conference is so ingrained in his being that he would be wholy incapable of dealing with another 9/11. He is a wuss when the office demands a warrior (Before running off with the Vietnam stuff, read my opinion on it here. Pay particular attention to the first sentence of the fourth paragraph. Thank you.)

The rest of the world - they like John Kerry because they know that, unlike President Bush, he won't put America's interests first. In an attempt to prove himself to be a great internationalist, he will sell this country's interests up the river when it comes to global issues.

It is up to us 200 million voting Americans to make sure that that doesn't happen.