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The Missing US Ambassador at the feast for Ronald Reagan
evening standard politics ^ | July 5, 2011

Posted on 07/05/2011 8:46:37 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

Last night's Guildhall dinner in honour of Ronald Reagan's centenary was a truly glittering and warm occasion.

The British roasted lamb and the sunny Californian chardonnay evoked the close Anglo-US relationship of Reagan and Thatcher as much as the fine speeches by Condi Rice and William Hague.

But guests were left asking, where on earth was the American ambassador to London, Louis B Susman?

"Our ambassador should be here," said Lynn de Rothschild, the American entrepreneur who is married to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and was one of Hillary Clinton's key fundraisers in 2008 as well as a supporter of several Republican presidential candidates. "This was an historic dinner to mark Reagan's centenary and to celebrate him as the man who ended the Cold War. What could not be more important?

"Why is our ambassador not here on Independence Day? No excuse. How is it that America is not represented in this room by our ambassador? It is appalling that no representative of our government is in this room. This has the feel of petty partisanship."

Ambassador Susman is, of course, a long-standing Democrat fundraiser, nicknamed the vaccuum cleaner for his skill at sucking donations out of the wealthy. And his efforts to fill Obama's campaign pockets was said by many to be his main qualification to come to London.

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.standard.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: reagan; susman
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1 posted on 07/05/2011 8:46:41 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

SHAME


2 posted on 07/05/2011 8:47:07 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

The vacuum cleaner really . . . . you know the rest.


3 posted on 07/05/2011 8:48:17 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Further display of BS idiocy from this lame ass administration. =.=


4 posted on 07/05/2011 8:48:24 AM PDT by cranked
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To: ilovesarah2012

It warms my heart to read the comments following the article.


5 posted on 07/05/2011 8:48:51 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Administration ordered him not to attend.


6 posted on 07/05/2011 8:49:16 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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7 posted on 07/05/2011 8:50:46 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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8 posted on 07/05/2011 8:50:46 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: ilovesarah2012

At least his boss could vote “present.”


9 posted on 07/05/2011 8:51:34 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Was this an official US sanctioned event, or something organized by a group of like-minded conservatives?


10 posted on 07/05/2011 8:53:18 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: ilovesarah2012
"This has the feel of petty partisanship."

Ya think?

11 posted on 07/05/2011 8:54:14 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: ilovesarah2012
It warms my heart to read the comments following the article.

Definitely worth checking out - thanks!

12 posted on 07/05/2011 8:55:22 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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13 posted on 07/05/2011 8:58:05 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: ilovesarah2012

Disgusting leftoids!

I hope we end up electing a president with enough backbone to throw the bums out.

President Bush tried to play nice guy and did not purge the bureaucracies of their Clinton era appointees. He paid dearly for his gesture because his administration was undermined from within by the lefists he left in place.

Contrast that with the way the Clintons cleaned out Bush 41 appointees as soon as Bill was sworn into office.


14 posted on 07/05/2011 8:58:20 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Well, we know it isn’t like the guy doesn’t like to eat!


15 posted on 07/05/2011 9:00:09 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: musicman

So where can you buy one of those baseball caps with the bill to the side...I’ve been looking but haven’t seen them on sale anywhere.


16 posted on 07/05/2011 9:00:22 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: ilovesarah2012

spoiled teenagers


17 posted on 07/05/2011 9:04:17 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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So where can you buy one of those baseball caps with the bill to the side...I’ve been looking but haven’t seen them on sale anywhere.

You have to take it to a milliner. He can move the bill and the logo to the side for you. But expect to pay big bucks.
18 posted on 07/05/2011 9:06:27 AM PDT by Cheburashka (If found, please return this Ring of Power to Sauron, Lord of Darkness. Return postage guaranteed.)
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To: yldstrk
Administration ordered him not to attend.

I suspect that this is precisely the case, and that it's a malignant narcissist thing - - Obama hates other presidents (especially GOPers) getting good attention, and inevitably inviting comparison.

One also suspects that the WH is in extended meetings cooking up squishy lies for the ambassador on why the snub of our British cousins on their honoring of our own (and great) president.

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19 posted on 07/05/2011 9:06:56 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Genoa
I'd actually cut him some slack because he wasn't a complete no-show to the Reagan events. The article states that he was at the statue unveiling and had hosted a breakfast for attending VIP’s earlier in the day.
20 posted on 07/05/2011 9:07:18 AM PDT by kaboom
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