Citizens Of Uk Opinion Of Obama? Curious American.

[midagealphamale]

i am curious what the general (REAL) opinion of our current president is outside the USA.

[nungate]

We like Obama in this house too.
Never watch Fox News but catch CBS news on Sky news and ABC world News on the BBC News channel

[saxy_jag]

@pastafreak - yes, she is mine. That's the lovely Lotto Ellie, better known as just plain Ellie. She's utterly gorgeous, but then I'm somewhat biased.

[pastafreak]

@ saxy...she's a pretty girl...almost as pretty as my lurcher,Sally.

[askyourgran]

I like Obama too he seems to be a nice normal family man, hopefully he has the chutzpah to sort out the problems over there. Glad he's not like Bush.

[jno]

Fox is available but it's very US-oriented so not much watched in the UK. The main news source is probably the BBC (radio, TV and online), with other channels having news coverage too, particularly Sky. Some people watch CNN and Al Jazeera, but not that many. Plus lots of daily newspapers. Most of these sources, however biased they may be about local news and politics, are fairly middle-of-the-road when they cover foreign news, including the USA.

[Hopkirk]

I instantly felt a lot safer when he took over from dangerous Dubya.

I felt uneasy at the thought of Romney being in charge, though I could have misjudged him.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I think he's just about the coolest politician ever.

[Hopkirk]

By the way, do you Americans have any doubts about the story of Hillary Clinton's illness?

This explanation of fainting due to dehydration, bashing her head then getting a blood clot all sounds a bit made up to me.

[dotty.]

I like him for all the reasons everyone else has said plus he asked garth to sing at his inauguration and hopefully he will ask him again

[Vivkins3]

I hate the way he is trying to inflict a welfare dependent state on the USA. Give a man a welfare cheque and he will vote Democrat for the rest of his life - he appeals to the work-shy. I also dislike what comes across to me as his fake humility. I dislike the way Michelle Obama acts as if the world owes her holiday after expensive holiday ... and I was utterly confounded, bewildered and disgusted that he was awarded a Nobel Prize for ______ please fill in the blank space.

[Kromovaracun]

Personally, I think Obama is fairly vacuous. I don't have much faith/trust in him. He is, however, considerably better than either of the candidates he has faced in election. And also miles better than George W.

[midagealphamale]

hopkirk.....as far as hillary....complete bs if you ask me. totally fabricated to keep out of testifying. just a chess move.

[NOX]

I think the reason that Obama has so much UK support is not that he's actually that great but that he's more like a UK citizen than the opposing candidates and we are therefore more comfortable with that. It really grates on the English by and large (and the Irish) all this holier than thou, 'in God we trust', home baking, hockey momming, gun toting, good ol fashioned, God fearing, pulpit bashing, right wing, anti rights, anti abortion, anti choice, commie hating, eco flattening, middle class white guyness whose family is in banking/law/the senate already/oil/big business/other shady and dubious dealings ( delete as applicable) and who appear, smug and perfectly coiffed, smilingly ready to trample on the poor, badly educated or otherwise downtrodden, telling them how America is the land of dreams and it's their own flaming fault if they live on the street in a box etc and if you happen to get sick well tough- die then.
None of that is natural to Europeans- we generally have a more tolerant, socialist outlook on things and the British in particularly love and are (rightly) proud of their NHS. Obama has made a leap of faith and is trying to improve healthcare particularly for the poor and disadvantaged and naturally we applaud that and find it hard to conceive how anyone could stand against it.
Obama is not great, but he's a million percent better than any Republican candidate imho.
Don't take this personally I actually quite like most Americans ;-)

[Baldric]

Had my doubts about him when he was first elected, but he's been there for a while now and seems to be a safe pair of hands good luck to him.

[ummmm]

Well said Nox...

It helps that he's easy on the eye and he can sing :-)

[abstibus]

Well said, Nox.

[woofgang]

If you genuinely wanted a view from abers, I wonder why you picked the minority view for your best answer?

[naomi24]

Because he agrees with the minority view?

[ichkeria]

The OP is plainly no fan of Obama so not surprising that he chose the right-wing rant as Best Answer. AB is not necessarily always the most reliable guide to opinion but I think in this case he will have gained the correct impression that for a variety of reasons most people in the UK have no issues with Obama or actually like him. And I'd be on the latter list also.