[Kaslin]

The rest of the title is: with a shameless nomination of top donor as US Ambassador to London

[colorado tanker]

I suppose it isn’t any worse than FDR sending them Joe Kennedy, although in that case the Ambassador didn’t matter because Roosevelt and Churchill communicated directly.

[txhurl]

Well this is weird... guy looks straight to me.

[cardinal4]

Is he gay? Everyone else he nominates for something is..

[x]

Ironically, Barzun once interned for John Kerry, when he was Senator for Massachusetts.

They're cousins of a sort. Don't know how distant. And both went to St. Paul's School.

Matthew Barzun's grandfather was the Columbia historian Jacques Barzun who married a Lowell. Matthew's mother was a Winthrop. He married the Jack Daniels' heiress and moved to Kentucky.

[publius911]

Despite pledging to clean up Washington, and make government more open and accountable, Barack Obama has been doing exactly the opposite. In April 2009, in his weekly address to the nation, President Obama declared that “it’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st Century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative.” Barzun’s nomination (he is still subject to Senate confirmation), suggests the president has absolutely no interest in living up to his own rhetoric.

You are commenting on facts not in evidence.
You are assuming that Hussein has the knowledge, experience, judgment and inclination, in addition to simply "interest."

The clown is as smart and competent as a boxful of tacos.

[VanDeKoik]

Contrast that guy with the first ambassador to the U.K..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YHl_0P2EJ4

As awkward as that was, at least you knew you got an actual qualified person for the job.

[dragonblustar]

Is that guy show off the size of ass he had to kiss to get the job?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Cicero]

I think one might add that Joe Kennedy made his money as a liquor-smuggling Chicago mobster. That’s where the Kennedy money came from. Not exactly proper Bostonians.

[autumnraine]

Once again, the British will say what the ignorant Americans won’t.

Makes me shamed.