Paris – Posters of Barack Obama have popped up around Paris in what started as a joke by four friends pretending to launch a campaign for the former US leader ahead of France’s presidential election.
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Even though the former US president cannot legally run in the two-round April-May election as a foreigner, the jokesters online petition has been signed by more than 40,000 people.
The organisers, who came up with idea over beer, say they launched the website and began plastering Obama17 posters around Paris because they were disenchanted with the candidates running in France’s election.
It would be fun to see him try to read from a teleprompter in French.
He is not French!
You have my vote.
PERFECT for him with all his Muslim brothers living there. As for a french birth certificate – he’ll have the same “lawyer” draw one up from Hawaii
He should run for president in his birth country, Kenya.
I never knew the French have a sense of humor.
Dom’t worry, after 2 years of him being French President, he will show that he has a French birth certificate.
I actually would encourage this, if only France was much farther away. There is no distance far enough that we need to see Obama go.