Is President Obama Privately Campaigning To Become The Next Secretary-General Of The United Nations?

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2014. REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE

Washington Times: Netanyahu leading effort to thwart Obama bid for U.N. chief

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly is planning payback for President Obama’s dismissing Mr. Netanyahu’s objections to the Iran nuclear deal last year. Mr. Netanyahu is said to be rallying moderate Arabs to thwart Mr. Obama’s bid to become the Secretary-General of the United Nations after he leaves the White House next year.

Mr. Obama has already discussed the issue with Republican, Democratic and Jewish officials in the United States, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.

Mr. Netanyahu recently is said to have gotten wind of Obama’s plans which he calls the Obama Project. “Wasn’t eight years of having Obama in office enough?” Mr. Netanyahu is quoted in the Kuwaiti daily as telling associates. “Eight years during which he ignored Israel? And now he wants to be in a position that is liable to cause us hardships in the international arena.”

“Obama is the worst president Israel has had to deal with and the worst president for the Middle East and its allies, the moderate Arab states,” the paper quotes a Netanyahu aide.

Update #1: Report: Obama Wants to Become UN Secretary General, Netanyahu Doing Everything He Can to Stop Him -- Town Hall
Update #2: Netanyahu 'fighting Obama's plan to be UN Sec-Gen' -- Arutz Sheva

WNU Editor: I have been hearing rumours that President Obama wants the UN Secretary General's job for the past two years. Ban Ki-moon's term as United Nations Secretary General ends at the end of this year (December 31), and President Obama's term as President expires at the end of January 2017. I doubt that the UN will leave the post vacant until President Obama's term ends ... so if  President Obama wants the post .... he will have to resign as President, making Vice President Biden the 45th President of the United States .... albeit for a month. The U.S. press would naturally go ga-ga  if this was to happen .... it would be an incredible gift to Joe Biden, and we will all have to deal with UN Secretary General Obama for the next 5 years. But there is one huge obstacle in the way for President Obama to be the next UN Secretary General .... quoting the UN charter .... The Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Security Council. I doubt that the Security Council will recommend him .... and I doubt even more that the General Assembly would move to approve his selection.