Ah, it wouldn't be election season if some Euro-tool didn't presume to tell us how we should be going about our business, and right on cue, here comes the Grauniad's Jonathan Freedland predicting global doom and gloom should the Obamessiah lose come November:

If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift.

Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for.

And you know what, Jon? That's our fucking business. If you want a say in how we do things here, why don't you apply for citizenship? I don't give a damn what the rest of the world may be "yearning for," and that certainly doesn't affect how I cast my ballot.

And the manner of that decision will matter, too. If it is deemed to have been about race - that Obama was rejected because of his colour - the world's verdict will be harsh. In that circumstance, Slate's Jacob Weisberg wrote recently, international opinion would conclude that "the United States had its day, but in the end couldn't put its own self-interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race".

Oh, yes. Because RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAACCCCISSSSMMM!!!1one! is the only conceivable reason why us backward, bitter Americans might not deign to vote for Obama. No, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that he's monstrously unqualified for the most important job in the world, or that he's a crypto-socialist (and the crypto there is being cheritable), or that he tends to feel chummy with lunatic conspiracy-mongering racist preachers and unrepentant far-left domestic terrorists. Nope, it's because he's black. That's the only possible reason.

You know what, Jon, go fuck yourself. I'm tired of assholes like you presuming to tell me what I need to do to satisfy a bunch of effete pricks who don't have the best interests of my country in mind. Should Obama lose, I hope you and your pals cry hot, bitter tears into your lacy little pillows.

Not quite done: You know, we don't presume to meddle in other countries' elections.  I mean, when was the last time you heard an American tell someone from another country how they ought to vote?  When was the last time you saw an op/ed piece in one of our newspapers telling Brits to vote Tory or Labour?  Or telling the Frogs or Krauts to vote for whatever the hell parties they have over there?  On the twelfth of fucking Never, that's when.  But I guess that's part and parcel of Americans' "lack of engagement with the rest of the world," huh?

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