"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." ... here ...
On the other hand, I'm not clear on 'ambassador' and 'politically appointed ambassador' -> there seems to be a distinction between career people serving tours and political appointees, so maybe that's why you haven't heard that - maybe it's par for the course for some but not others. I am definitely not a pro on the workings of the machine.
All ambassadors are ‘politically appointed’. A large number of ambassadors are picked from career Foreign Service and return to it after serving as ambassador, but they too are politically appointed and serve 100% at the discretion of whoever is president.
The MSM is bald-faced lying again, counting on their audience to be uninformed.
Very interesting. Thank you. Sure don’t recall that but can’t argue with facts...
“politically appointed” and”career” must explain why I thought they were always “appointed” because of favoritism and not from the troops at the state department.
I’m getting too old to keep all this nonsense in my head so I guess it just decided to leave.