Foreign policy would make more sense to such a large group of people if we could reliably often discuss it using rap feuds as examples. Tongue could be firmly planted in cheek here, but Marc Lynch makes a couple of really good points.

About foreign policy. And also Jay-Z. To wit:

But the limits on his ability to use this power recalls the debates about U.S. primacy. Should he use this power to its fullest extent, as neo-conservatives would advise, imposing his will to reshape the world, forcing others to adapt to his values and leadership? Or should he fear a backlash against the unilateral use of power, as realists such as my colleague Steve Walt or liberals such as John Ikenberry would warn, and instead exercise self-restraint?

Is Marc Lynch the Kai Ryssdal of FPM?

Former President Jimmy Carter, who has been spending the last few years trying to help forge a just peace in the Middle East, said Obama will “not wait for even a month after he is president to start working on the peace process, where as you know, the previous two presidents waited till the least year they were in office before they began the peace process.”

Carter was criticized by Obama during the campaign for meeting with members of Hamas, a political party that took power in the 2006 Palestinian elections.

“I think is a very important issue, I don’t have any doubt in my mind that to find peace and security and human rights for the Palestinians and also for Israel would be a major factor in reducing the threat of terror,” Carter told CNN.

More than 87 percent of the near 200,000 who cast their vote on www.iftheworldcouldvote.com voted democrat, putting their hopes behind Sen. Barack Obama as leader of the free world.

The goal of the independent site is to see who global citizens would elect if they were eligible November 4. The site, developed by “three guys from Iceland” has one rule; each computer can only vote once.

So far voters have cast their ballots from 190 countries. From Iraq to Vanatu, from Malawi to the French Polynesia, citizens from 190 countries care about the fate of this election.

Is this global interest a testament to how good the candidates are or how bad the current administration is? That answer is pretty obvious.

The interest does make sense though, America’s foreign policy agenda is perhaps the most important in the world. That makes the country’s leader one of the most powerful and as we’ve recently seen, one of the most capable of doing more harm than good.

Only two countries have voted in majority for McCain and the republicans. The two countries, Macedonia and Burkina Faso, have less than 400 votes combined.

It’s not too surprising that Obama is leading this voting base by a landslide, many of them may not know the domestic issues that plague America so the split isn’t as close as it is in the U.S.

Obama also boasts celebrity status in many countries because he’s an advocate for change and walking symbol of progress and the American dream.

We’ll see if the gap lessens as the election closes in.