Posted on 07/11/2013 5:36:56 AM PDT by ryan71
President Obama on Tuesday nominated two major campaign bundlers to two of the most prized ambassadorships available anywhere – London and Rome – part of a pattern that has seen him reward at least 18 top fundraisers with plum diplomatic positions since 2009.
The White House said the post of ambassador to the United Kingdom will go, subject to confirmation, to Matthew Barzun, an Internet pioneer and investor who served as the Obama campaign finance chairman in 2008, as ambassador to Sweden from 2009-2011, and then again as finance chairman for the president’s 2012 campaign.
The ambassadorship to Italy will go to John R. Phillips, a Washington lawyer who chairs the president’s commission that selects candidates to be White House fellows. Phillips is the husband of Linda Douglass, a former network journalist who served as communications director for the Obama White House’s Office of Health Reform.
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Obammunism: Crony Socialism
This is nothing new...happens regardless of who’s in office...that’s why I was glad I didn’t pass the Foreign Service exam way back when..
I knew I’d never make top dog.
After a short rehabilitation period, maybe John Corzine would like to be ambassador to some country with a large financial center. Maybe London... or Shanghai... or Singapore.
I’m glad it is them working for Obama and not me.
Of course they do, and they are all incompetent.
Rarely would I defend Obama on ANYTHING.....but frankly, ALL Presidents do this.
Dan Rooney’s lobbying to become Ambassador to Ireland was nothing short of shameful. He turned his football team into a virtual bolt-on appendage of the Obama Campaign.
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