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Caroline Kennedy Seen as Likely Choice for Japan Envoy (Groan!)
New York Times ^ | April 1, 2013 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Posted on 04/01/2013 12:43:26 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, is close to being announced as the next United States ambassador to Japan, according to people familiar with the appointment process.

The vetting of Ms. Kennedy by the White House is almost complete, and an appointment could be announced in the coming weeks, along with the names of several other choices for high-profile diplomatic posts. Bloomberg News and The Washington Post first reported that Ms. Kennedy was under consideration.

Ms. Kennedy was an early supporter of President Obama, offering forceful backing as he battled Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She also served as a co-chairwoman of Mr. Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ambassador; carolina; carolinekennedy; japan; kennedy
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Not an April Fool's joke I'm afraid, but either payback for Kennedy money delivered, or else the Rats want to groom her for a Senate run or even a VP slot in 2016.

Seems like a punched ticket to me.

1 posted on 04/01/2013 12:43:26 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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Just another way to DISS an ally.


2 posted on 04/01/2013 12:45:24 PM PDT by The Working Man
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Just another inbred, brain-dead Kennedy. Our Japanese allies should be justifiably outraged.


3 posted on 04/01/2013 12:46:34 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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Interesting that NY Times just lays it out there - this is political payback.


4 posted on 04/01/2013 12:46:59 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Timber Rattler

Where does 0bumble look after he’s scraped the bottom of the barrel?


5 posted on 04/01/2013 12:51:01 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: Timber Rattler; Bikkuri; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo
Ubama's Aprils Fools Day joke on Japan.

Except it will last alot longer.


6 posted on 04/01/2013 12:53:02 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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I can just imagine what she’ll say. “ Like, you know, this is, like, you know, sooo cool ‘cause, you know, I really, like, like sushi.”


7 posted on 04/01/2013 12:53:35 PM PDT by JPG (Stay strong.)
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The next thing you know they will give an ambassadorship to Shirley Temple.


8 posted on 04/01/2013 12:53:59 PM PDT by OKRA2012
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More clowns raiding the till before there is nothing left worth having...

I guess she needs a payday... and her buddy “O” can do that for her.


9 posted on 04/01/2013 12:57:11 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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Never fear. She is just an ornament.


10 posted on 04/01/2013 12:59:09 PM PDT by RobbyS
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How do I get an ambassadorship to some silly country in europe?


11 posted on 04/01/2013 1:01:01 PM PDT by GraceG
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Shirley Temple is intelligent and talented.


12 posted on 04/01/2013 1:02:00 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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You know, I think she will make a good ambassador, you know, and stuff like that, you know, like until she gets appointed to something better and stuff. /s


13 posted on 04/01/2013 1:08:51 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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Not all that sure how talented she is as she had not done a film in 64 years.

Her appointments to various ambassadorships were based on here celebrity status, just as Caroline Kennedy’s would be ambassadorship.


14 posted on 04/01/2013 1:12:34 PM PDT by OKRA2012
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“How do I get an ambassadorship to some silly country in europe?”

You bundle ten, maybe 20 million dollars for your favorite presidential candidate and if that candidate wins, you may be selected to be ambassador to some low risk nation.


15 posted on 04/01/2013 1:15:28 PM PDT by OKRA2012
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She’s, like, talented, ya know...


16 posted on 04/01/2013 1:18:32 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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Hey Timber...Not specific to you, but I’m not familiar with posting to this site.
Not surprised AT ALL that the royal Kennedy name is being bestowed yet another placement within the royal court of corruption/graft/fraud and elitist ‘opportunity’-:)
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17 posted on 04/01/2013 1:25:30 PM PDT by iseeit (A more equal animal by effort.)
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My God, when the Dems were touting her as a possible Senator it quickly became apparent that she could barely string two intelligent words together. What an embarrassment this will be to our Japanese partners—especially with the possibility of the North Korea situation escalating.

Well, I guess she’s a Kennedy so she must be entitled.


18 posted on 04/01/2013 1:25:46 PM PDT by House Atreides
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I feel sure that she probably speaks fluent Japanese.


19 posted on 04/01/2013 1:33:13 PM PDT by DManA
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“The next thing you know they will give an ambassadorship to Shirley Temple.”
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You do know that some former actors were intelligent, well-spoken and had common sense—such as Ronald Reagan and, yes, Shirley Temple, don’t you?

If you’ve ever seen Caroline Kennedy in a situation where she had to think on her feet, you’d realize that she was a bubble head. And if you’ve ever seen Shirley Temple Black do the same you’d realized that Kennedy could never begin to come close to filling Temple-Black’s shoes.

Just because Jim Carrey is an idiot, that doesn’t mean that all actors are also idiots.


20 posted on 04/01/2013 1:37:39 PM PDT by House Atreides
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