Posted on 02/24/2017 2:52:13 AM PST by Zakeet
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 impossible, presidential candidate in 2017, Barack Obama.
And, lest you thing this is a joke, a quick walk around Paris even reveals campaign posters for "Obama17" plastered all around the city.
The group of protesters who launched the effort to bring "hope and change" to France are urging French citizens to visit their website to sign a petition to convince Obama to enter the race. They figure that 1 million signatures should do the trick.
Meanwhile, asked why they support Obama, protesters told ABC News 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."
Why Obama? "Because he has the best resume in the world for the job," reads the website, which is in no way connected to Obama."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," reads the website in French.
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. Then, we thought, whether it's possible or not, whether or not he is French, we have to do this for real, to give French people hope ... Vive la République, Vive Obama, Vive la France and the U.S.A."
And while we have our doubts about the likelihood of this plan working out, might we suggest that Hillary Clinton would make a great candidate for a senior cabinet position in Obama's new administration.
Of course, while it's a genius plan, if we understand it correctly, there is just one minor problem...the French president needs to be, well, French.
I think Obama's remarks about the call to prayer being the most beautiul sound on earth, will be very popular in some of the Parisian arrondissements if you catch my drift.
I wanna see exactly what his proposal for defiling La Tour Eiffel will be?
No liberté egalité or fraternité with him.
Well, the Fwench already have plenty of experience with beheadings, if you recall Madame Guillotine.
BO wasn’t, really, a pro-American, and he remained POTUS for eight years (and, a illegal POTUS, if he was, really, born in Kenya)! Why not become President of France?
Exactly.
French Voters Call On Obama To Run For President To “Give French People Hope”
These French people must be Suicidal. IDIOTS!!
please! take him!
lol
Hopefully they will elect him president...then give him the King Louis treatment!
lol. Bloody Frogs
Not a problem, the American President was supposed to be American.
Mark my words. This “liberal group of protesters” is from Organizing for Action - Obama’s (the front man) business.
It’s pretty clear that the posters are designed by the Obama team graphic designers.
What a novel idea.......a “foreign exchange president”.
If the French are stupid enough to take Obama off our hands, who am I to argue with them?
He would secure the muzzie vote...
They would've dusted off the guillotines by 2009.
Why not? He’s just as much a natural born citizen of France as he is of the USA.
LOL
“France is no longer France”
It’s Franceghanistan
Perfect place for L’obama to rule.
He can wear openly wear his headscarf and chant “death to America” without fear of reprisal.
I read this too quickly the first time, The Obamanation of Desolation in Gay Pee Pee? He’d fit right in.
My apologies.
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