Foreigners Will Not Take a McCain-Palin Presidency Seriously

If you doubt that the McCain-Palin resort to gutter politics (see my previous posting) is going to have foreign policy repercussions, this is what BBC News says:

A Democratic spokesman accused the Republicans of gutter politics.

"What's clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy," Hari Sevugan said.

Commentators say Mrs Palin's attack forms part of a broader Republican strategy to attack Mr Obama's character.

That is about as negative as a news story can get. The editorials will be worse. BBC News is read all over the world, and is very influential. It provides more information to leaders of foreign nations than do the media used by the McCain-Palin campaign for their attacks.