Posted on 12/05/2014 7:56:14 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
If you're looking for a good laugh this week, you probably can't do better than Tuesday's White House press conference. Reporters asked spokesman Josh Earnest about the confirmation of two Obama-appointed ambassadors whose confirmation was only possible because Democrats manipulated Senate rules earlier this year to make it easier to approve executive-branch nominees.
By the narrowest of margins, two people completely unqualified to represent U.S. interests abroad were confirmed to serve in relatively important countries they know nothing about. Colleen Bell, the new U.S. ambassador to Hungary, is a former soap opera producer who couldn't name a single strategic interest the United States has in Hungary at her confirmation hearing. Noah Mamet will now represent U.S. interests in Argentina, a country he has never even visited. Mamet reportedly does not speak Spanish.
What both of these unqualified ambassadors have in common is that each raised more than half a million dollars for President Obama's re-election campaign.
If you're looking for a good laugh this week, you probably can't do better than Tuesday's White House press conference. Reporters asked spokesman Josh Earnest about the confirmation of two Obama-appointed ambassadors whose confirmation was only possible because Democrats manipulated Senate rules earlier this year to make it easier to approve executive-branch nominees.
By the narrowest of margins, two people completely unqualified to represent U.S. interests abroad were confirmed to serve in relatively important countries they know nothing about. Colleen Bell, the new U.S. ambassador to Hungary, is a former soap opera producer who couldn't name a single strategic interest the United States has in Hungary at her confirmation hearing. Noah Mamet will now represent U.S. interests in Argentina, a country he has never even visited. Mamet reportedly does not speak Spanish.
What both of these unqualified ambassadors have in common is that each raised more than half a million dollars for President Obama's re-election campaign.
Actually these two fit in seamlessly with the rest of the Obama Administration.
If unqualified ambassadors were the worst of our problems, we’d be golden.
That’s a fact.
Obama’s ambassadors will be gone in a couple of years. Obama’s judges will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years.
This is a joke. Historically Ambassadors have been bundlers or heavy contributors, period.
The Senate has rarely squawked about anyone. I recall the movie actor John Gavin appointed to Mexico by Reagan raised a fluff, but Gavin was actually qualified and Hispanic.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001260/bio
Let us not forget Caroline Kennedy as the ambassador to Japan. She being such an expert on all things Japanese and all. LOL!
Only slightly less qualified than Dan Rooney, the aging, senile heir to a football team, was to be our Ambassador to Ireland.
Dan had at least been to Ireland for a Steeler exhibition game that was played there.
Can’t blame Reid for any of this...we know he’s a scumbag...
He only got away with it because the coward McConnel capitulated.
this is crappola,
presidents have been putting in worthless vermin who contributed heavily to their success forever in to top ambasador positions as well as every other position they can pay em off with.
We’ve been pumping out unqualified ambassadors for well over 200 years. Nothing new here. Both parties do it, and the Senate merely plays along with the game.
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