Arabs Like Saddam, Hugo Chavez, More Than Obama -- US News and World Report
Despite intense and sustained efforts to woo the Arab world with money and nice words, a newly released survey of the region finds that President Obama is at the bottom of a list Arabs admire most.
Obama is admired by just 4 percent of Middle East Arabs in the new survey released by the Brookings Institution and University of Maryland.
Above him:
13 percent prefer Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinajad.
6 percent prefer dead Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
5 percent chose Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
Even 5 percent chose French President Nicolas Sarkozy over Obama.
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My Comment: I am very skeptical of this poll, and the reason why is simple. They may diss the U.S. (and President Obama) in this poll .... but if given the choice .... and if immigration visas were not an issue .... the entire Arab world would immigrate to the U.S. (and not China, Russia, Venezuela, and definitely not Iran) in a heartbeat.
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