[PghBaldy]

Amazing, since BO was not even POTUS until 2009!

[butlerweave]

Amazing, since BO was not even POTUS until 2009!

Don’t you remember Obama pushed Bush aside and took over a month before the Election ,LOL

[House Atreides]

Amazing, since BO was not even POTUS until 2009!
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Hey! It’s obvious that you don’t recognize crystal clear writing. Obama fired all the ambassadors that Bush appointed in 2008. He didn’t fire those appointed in 2007 and earlier.

You would never make it through today’s journalism schools. Hell, you’re probably not even WOKE! ;-)

[RocketSprocket]

From the 2008 article...

The incoming Obama administration has notified all politically-appointed ambassadors that they must vacate their posts as of Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, a State Department official said.

The clean slate will open up prime opportunities for the president-elect to reward political supporters with posts in London, Paris, Tokyo and the like. The notice to diplomatic posts was issued this week.

[Brown Deer]

Obama Gives Political Ambassadors Their Pink Slips
By Glenn Kessler

The incoming Obama administration has notified all politically-appointed ambassadors that they must vacate their posts as of Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, a State Department official said.

The clean slate will open up prime opportunities for the president-elect to reward political supporters with posts in London, Paris, Tokyo and the like. The notice to diplomatic posts was issued this week.

Political ambassadors sometimes are permitted to stay on briefly during a new administration, but the sweeping nature of the directive suggests that Obama has little interest in retaining any of Bush's ambassadorial appointees.

Most ambassadors, of course, are foreign service officers, but often the posts involving the most important bilateral relations (such as with Great Britain, Japan and India) or desirable locales (such as the Bahamas) are given to close friends and well-heeled contributors of the president.

By Web Politics Editor | December 3, 2008; 10:04 AM ET