{"id":59849,"date":"2018-03-01T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=59849"},"modified":"2018-03-01T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T05:30:35","slug":"obama-not-bidding-for-top-united-nations-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/obama-not-bidding-for-top-united-nations-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama not bidding for top United Nations post"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Obama not bidding for top United Nations post<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Former President Barack Obama never campaigned to become U.N. secretary-general, despite a false story claiming he had announced a bid and was consulting others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A story appearing on more than two dozen websites says Obama is seeking the job &#8220;to advance his globalist agenda on the world stage.&#8221; Obama&#8217;s office says the story is not true and he&#8217;s happy as a private citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A secretary-general also generally doesn&#8217;t <\/span>campaign,<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\"> but has to be nominated first by the U.N. Security Council. Any one of that council&#8217;s permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) could veto the selection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The story also incorrectly refers to Obama attempting to follow <\/span>Secretary General<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\"> Ban Ki-moon. Ban left the post in 2016 and was succeeded by Antonio Guterres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/obama-bidding-top-united-nations-post-53421427<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/obama-not-bidding-for-top-united-nations-post.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama not bidding for top United Nations post Former President Barack Obama never campaigned to become U.N. secretary-general, despite a false story claiming he had announced a bid and was consulting others. A story appearing on more than two dozen websites says Obama is seeking the job &#8220;to advance his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[122745],"class_list":["post-59849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-obama-not-bidding-for-top-united-nations-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}