{"id":242,"date":"2017-02-24T12:17:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-02-24T12:17:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:17:46","slug":"many-french-like-obama-trying-to-draft-him-to-run-for-president-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/242","title":{"rendered":"Many French Like Obama, Trying To Draft Him To Run For President In France…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Obama17\"<\/p>\n

French Voters Call On Obama To Run For President To “Give French People Hope”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

As French voters look set to make a massive swing to the right in their upcoming presidential election (see our notes on the topic here<\/span><\/u><\/a> and here<\/span><\/u><\/a>), a group of frightened liberal protesters have decided to back a relatively surprising, if impossible, presidential candidate in 2017, Barack Obama.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And, lest you thing this is a joke, a quick walk around Paris even reveals campaign posters for “Obama17” plastered all around the city.<\/em><\/p>\n

The group of protesters who launched the effort to bring “hope and change” to France are urging French citizens to visit their website<\/span><\/u><\/a> to sign a petition to convince Obama to enter the race.\u00a0 They figure that 1 million signatures should do the trick.<\/em><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, asked why they support Obama, protesters told ABC News<\/span><\/u><\/a> they’re looking for a candidate they “really admire” and “someone who could lead us to project ourselves in a bright future to give French people hope.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Why Obama? “Because he has the best resume in the world for the job,”<\/b> reads the website, which is in no way connected to Obama.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

“At a time when France is about to vote massively for the extreme right, we can still give a lesson of democracy to the planet by electing a French President, a foreigner,<\/b>” reads the website in French.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the group told ABC News Thursday morning, “We started dreaming about this idea two months before the end of Obama’s presidency. We dreamed about this possibility to vote for someone we really admire, someone who could lead us to project ourselves in a bright future.<\/b> Then, we thought, whether it’s possible or not, whether or not he is Fhe U.S.A.” <\/b><\/p>\n

And while we have our doubts about the likelihood of this plan working out, might we suggest <\/b><\/strong>rench, we have to do this for real, to give French people hope … Vive la R\u00e9publique, Vive Obama, Vive la France and t<\/b><\/em>that Hillary Clinton would make a great candidate for a senior cabinet position in Obama’s new administration.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Really not all that surprising. For obvious reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French Voters Call On Obama To Run For President To “Give French People Hope” As French voters look set to make a massive swing to the right in their upcoming presidential election (see our notes on the topic here and here), a group of frightened liberal protesters have decided to back a relatively surprising, if … Continue reading Many French Like Obama, Trying To Draft Him To Run For President In France…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-3U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":313,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/313","url_meta":{"origin":242,"position":0},"title":"The President Of The United States Is A Conspiracy Theorist…","author":"Les","date":"March 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump is, in essence, a conspiracy theory nut job. 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