Rejected petition Debate Obama being allowed to tell to the UK people how to vote in a referendum.

President Obama was recently asked by the Prime Minister to comment on how the British people should vote in a UK referendum. The President misrepresented the LEAVE campaign and likened it to "isolationism" but the US has the same isolationist policies and would not accept EU law in the US.

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Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The views of the President of the USA are not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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Date submitted 23 April 2016
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