The Guardian: “US diplomats cry foul as Obama donors take over top embassy jobs”
Published:
July 11, 2013 at 10:38am
It’s a practice our own government is perfecting – except that their chosen people are not necessarily financial donors but those who helped in other ways to have Labour elected.
A headline in The Guardian today:
US diplomats cry foul as Obama donors take over top embassy jobs
Former ambassador likens practice to ‘selling of public office’ as figures show average amount of cash raised is $1.8m per post
The link to the full story is below.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/obama-donors-top-embassy-jobs-rewards
Well, Joey did model his campaign after Obama’s after all, didn’t he. Yes we can! Taghna lkoll.
US has been doing it for years with ambassadorships given according to size of donation
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/01/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-u-s-ambassador/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-13/the-economics-of-being-a-u-dot-s-dot-ambassador
The bottom line: Wealthy donors—who can afford to spend their own money entertaining on the U.S.’s behalf—hold 31 percent of ambassadorships.
Obama has outdone George W. Bush in wrecking the USA with is incompetency as president.
With his public racial bias, so evident in the George Zimmerman railroading and on going trial, to the taking away of more personal freedoms.
From out and out spying and electronic snooping on citizens to the cold blooded assassination of them.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/10/alwa-o01.html
And they gave this guy a Nobel Peace prize as soon as he was first elected?
For diddley squat.
Obama is an empty suit. In it for himself. That’s why Joseph looks up to him and copied his campaign.
Empty suits, even if they are fine bespoke ones, are a danger to a nation’s well being and more importantly, to the well being of its citizens. It takes a long time to repair the damage caused by recklessness masquerading as “too cool for you” diplomacy and statesmanship.
First it was Muscat copying Obama, now it’s Obama copying Muscat.
“Selling of public office”?
My, oh my. How very slow of these Americans to pick up the latest trends.
Here in Malta we call it “meritocracy’. But then they wouldn’t understand, would they? They neither have a Ray nor a Norman. And not even a Marisa for that matter.