170 Diplomats to Resign Ahead of Obama's Inauguration (Flashback 2008)

AFP via News Max ^ | Friday, 05 December 2008 | Staff

[yesthatjallen]

The US State Department has asked some 170 ambassadors to tender their resignations in a routine move before Barack Obama is inaugurated as president, an official said Thursday.

Many career ambassadors, including Gene Cretz who was confirmed last month as the first US ambassador to Libya in 36 years, will probably be asked to stay in their posts, an official told reporters on condition of anonymity.

"The message was something that is normally sent out (after every election every four years) by the State Department at the request of the White House," the State Department official said.

"It's a normal procedure for ambassadors, career and non-career, to submit their resignations. And what happens is that all of them do," according to the official who added the message was sent out Tuesday.

"And in many cases, career ambassadors will be notified that they can stay in place," he said.

"You also have from time to time political (appointee) ambassadors who come in with requests to maybe extend for a couple of months for family reasons or whatever, and those are looked at on a case-by-case basis," he said.

Around 34 percent of the 170 ambassadors serving abroad are political appointees, the official said.

These include the current ambassadors to London, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Paris and The Hague, the official said later.

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[lee martell]

This is what should have been made to happen when Trump assumed the office. But it did not happen.

[Callnote]

So the roosters are flying out of the hen house, nice...hahaha

[jazzlite]

Yes. Ambassadors are political appointees, serving at the direction of the President. The Obama administration came about before the Democrat/Media dictator coalition decided to come out of the shadows, or the swamp, to let the nation see who they are. They are betting on the ignorance of history and government systems nurtured by government run public schools and universities to bring about the dangerous socialism and communism which most of mankind has lived under from the beginning. If this revolution is allowed to stand, it is unclear whether a left-wing or right-wing dictatorship will emerge from it. It will depend on who wins the bloody war which will be the determination of that. Revolutions normally begin in the young. At this point it is not clear how many communist students we actually have in our colleges. Everything depends on the numbers and, in this day of free speech repression, we know little about how people REALLY feel. We will find that out when a majority begin to feel the real oppression which comes from socialism and communism and identifiable Soviet style government “investigations.”