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In Digging the awesome post at Chris Merriman.com on a Russian solider who covered Eminem’s Stan in a video showing the squalor of the Russian army and got exiled for dishonoring the image of the Army, I found a YouTube video of a Russian guy praising Barak Obama and disparaging John McCain.

At first I thought the video was an American making of Russians but I am pretty sure that this guy is Russian from his accent, his intonations, his inconsistent grammar mistakes (he makes a mistake, then the next time he doesn’t make the mistake), and the fact that in the middle of the video, a colleague approaches him and shakes his hand! Only in the former Soviet Union can a good morning handshake not wait for anything! It’s not particularly funny if it really is a Russian, so I think it is meant to be a sincere endorsement of Obama-but primarily because he is afraid McCain will start a war with Russia; it’s more anti-McCain than pro-Obama.

So I’m curious, is Obama more popular with foreigners? Who do you guys support and why? Is it a question of supporting one candidate or disliking the other candidate?

Here’s the video:

The best line is probably, “The next time you see McCain, you tell him ‘Go on dick’; it mean something like ‘Fuck you!’ but Russian style.”