Posted on 04/15/2011 9:01:39 AM PDT by Al B.
Jon Huntsman, President Obama’s outgoing ambassador to China, is considering running against his boss in 2012 as a Republican.
But two handwritten letters from Huntsman obtained by The Daily Caller raise the question of why he’s not campaigning for Obama instead.
“You are a remarkable leader,” Huntsman wrote to Obama in an Aug. 16, 2009 note, underlining the word “remarkable,” “and it has been a great honor getting to know you.”
The letter thanks Obama for “the graciousness and kindness you have shown me and my family – particularly your confidence in my ability to represent you in China.” Huntsman said he was “leaving behind a state we love – but anticipating an extraordinary experience in Beijing.”
In an Aug. 10, 2009 letter to former President Bill Clinton, Huntsman was similarly effusive.
“I have enormous regard for your experience, sense of history and brilliant analysis of world events. Please save some time for me when I’m next in New York,” Huntsman said.
In that same letter, Huntsman, who plans to leave his post in Beijing April 30, had kind words for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well.
“I must report that Sec. Clinton has won the hearts and minds of the State Dept. bureaucracy — no easy task. And after watching her in action, I can see why. She is well-read, hard working, personable and has even more charisma than her husband! It’s an honor to work with her,” Huntsman wrote.
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This guy is toast.
Run Jon, run! LOL.
This 2012 primary is more a process of elimination:
Huntsmann does the Charlie-Crist Obama embrace thingie...
“OK, so there’s another candidate I won’t need to lift a finger to support...”
If you read the letters you know this guy is biggest a...kisser suck up ever..just the qualities you look for in a leader. Also, when he was in high school you know he was teachers pet. How annoying of an individual he appears.
UGH. TOO GUSHY, even if he were a female.
It appears all mormons at the federal level are liberals.
Not just toast, burnt toast.
If we take away the possibility of Huntsman being a closeted liberal, the only other conclusion is he’s high on something. People hopped up on coke, speed or have a bi polar disorder would write something that gushy.
No sir, you were not representing Obama in China, you were meant to be representing AMERICA.
Huntsman is lite Roomey.
Ambassador Huntsman called Obama “remarkable”? And not remarkable in a bad way? This ruins his credibility IMHO.
This guy is creepier than Crist.
Perhaps he and Mitt Romney will split the RINO and establishment vote.
bump.
Dude never had much credibility to begin with.
Any tiny shred he may have had was gone when he took a job from Obama.
An Obamaphillic RINO from Utah, hard to think of a worse choice in my book.
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