{"id":306629,"date":"2017-05-04T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/video-obama-endorses-emmanuel-macron-for-french-president\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:44:53","slug":"video-obama-endorses-emmanuel-macron-for-french-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/video-obama-endorses-emmanuel-macron-for-french-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Obama Endorses Emmanuel Macron for French President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interfering in foreign elections is fine now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>May 4, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>After months of accusing Vladimir Putin of interfering in the US election, former US president Barack Obama has openly endorsed Emmanuel Macron for French president, saying that \u201che is committed to a better future for the French people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\">Obama posted a video Thursday morning giving his support to Macron, the centrist liberal candidate who is running against the nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama has just endorsed Emmanuel Macron &#x1f447; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D1zmMsGhok\">pic.twitter.com\/D1zmMsGhok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylegriffin1\/status\/860115175218847744\">May 4, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI know that you face many challenges and I want all of my friends in France to know how much I am rooting for your success,\u201d Obama said, adding \u201cBecause of how important this election is, I also want you to know I am supporting Emmanuel Macron to lead you forward. En march. Vive la France.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama added that Macron \u201cappeals to people\u2019s hopes and not their fears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has stood up for liberal values. He put forward a vision for the important role that France plays in Europe and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron immediately tweeted the video out:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">L&#8217;espoir est en marche. Merci <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\">@BarackObama<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0azZHLZLse\">pic.twitter.com\/0azZHLZLse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/860111061340610561\">May 4, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama noted that \u201cI\u2019m not planning to get involved in many elections anymore, now I don\u2019t have to run for office again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hypocrisy of Obama inserting his voice into another nation\u2019s election wasn\u2019t lost on many:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interfering with French election (as he did Israeli election and Brexit when President). No problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fh1n4LBH9G\">https:\/\/t.co\/Fh1n4LBH9G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandyEBarnett\/status\/860123519996362752\">May 4, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh weird, interfering in another nation&#8217;s election\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pbUFbOLjBW\">https:\/\/t.co\/pbUFbOLjBW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/860123495870730240\">May 4, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Has a former president explicitly endorsed a candidate in another country&#8217;s election before?&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-obama-endorses-emmanuel-macron-for-french-president.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interfering in foreign elections is fine now Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMay 4, 2017 After months of accusing Vladimir Putin of interfering in the US election, former US president Barack Obama has openly endorsed Emmanuel Macron for French president, saying that \u201che is committed to a better future for the French people.\u201d Obama posted a video Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}