Who will win the world's despot vote?

When I vote on issues, I often see who's lining up on which side and and make a decision. Which group do I most align myself with?

Now, we have an election for president between two socialists and I can't decide which guy to choose from, so I'll go with who's endorsing who.

Yesterday, I posted on the endorsement from McCain's jailer in Vietnam.

Investor's Business Daily has a round up of some of the candidates prominent endorsements.

All of which contrasts with Barack Obama's campaign, which has become a magnet for dictators.

Real democracies don't tell other nations' citizens how to vote. But nations under one-man rule are another matter. Dictators' preferences are all personal and usually frankly stated. And this year they're all lining up behind Obama.

On Sunday, bloggers at One Free Korea noted that a North Korean mouthpiece, Chosun Sinbo, reported that dictator Kim Jong Il was adding his name to the list of those who support the Democratic standard-bearer.

"We will see a better relationship between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula with Obama, who sternly criticizes Bush and who would meet the leader of Chosun without preconditions," Sinbo said.

North Korea, of course, is an odious nuclear dictatorship that starves its people and threatens its neighbors.

Obama also has been endorsed by Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. In a rambling speech last week, he advised Obama to "be proud of himself as a black and feel that all Africa is behind him."

Gadhafi has kept Libya a backward petro-dictatorship since 1969 — when McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton.

Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega also chimed in praise for Obama as "laying the foundations for a revolutionary change" in America. Ortega shot his way to power in 1979, was thrown out in 1990, and recently returned to power in an election split three ways that has seen the dismantling of Nicaragua's democracy.

Fidel Castro also has thrown his support to Obama, "the man who is doubtless, from the social and human points of view, the most progressive candidate to the U.S. presidency."

Congratulations Obama. You've pretty much locked up the world's despot vote and none of them even live in the 51-57 states you've campaigned in.