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FLASHBACK: President Barack Obama Fired All George W. Bush-Appointed Ambassadors in 2008
breitbart.com ^ | Nov. 15, 2019 | CHARLIE SPIERING

Posted on 11/16/2019 8:14:51 AM PST by PROCON

Former United States ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified Friday about her dismay upon being fired by President Donald Trump, but it’s actually quite common for presidents to do so after taking office.

The State Department issued a December 2008 notice to Bush-appointed ambassadors to submit their resignations, effective when President Barack Obama took office in 2009, according to the Washington Post.

A State Department official told Agence France Presse at the time that demanding all previously appointed ambassadors resign was routine.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ambassadors; bush43; obama
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Hey ABCNBCCBSCNNMSNBCNYTLATNPR, you going to pick-up this story?
1 posted on 11/16/2019 8:14:51 AM PST by PROCON
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Are you kidding?? The alphabet media is circling the wagons to protect their own.


2 posted on 11/16/2019 8:17:09 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: PROCON

Did these ambassadors cry at secret underground hearings?


3 posted on 11/16/2019 8:18:08 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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There was graft to spread


4 posted on 11/16/2019 8:19:29 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: PROCON
And not a single one of them went on to claim PTSD as this Canadian snowflake is claiming.
5 posted on 11/16/2019 8:20:41 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: PROCON

-—that has been SOP for ambassador, U.S marshal’s and U.S. attorneys since the adoption of the Constitution-—


6 posted on 11/16/2019 8:21:35 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the meda or government sayabout firearms or explosives--)
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To: PROCON

Obama didn’t become President until 2009.


7 posted on 11/16/2019 8:25:03 AM PST by Ancient Man
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To: PROCON

https://www.voanews.com/usa/diplomats-its-common-politically-appointed-ambassadors-resign

... [Trump] State Department spokesman John Kirby said Friday, and he confirmed that ambassadors who are career members of the U.S. Foreign Service — about 70 percent of the top American envoys abroad — were not asked to offer their resignations...


8 posted on 11/16/2019 8:25:28 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: PROCON

It’s so past time to be making arguments like this and drawing these comparisons.


9 posted on 11/16/2019 8:28:20 AM PST by riri
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Obama didn’t become President until 2009.

Read the 2nd paragraph.

10 posted on 11/16/2019 8:28:38 AM PST by PROCON (When we allow 'progressives' control of the language, lies replace Truth)
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exactly what Trump should have done 1 millisecond after he took the oath of office... fire every single RAT in DC
11 posted on 11/16/2019 8:30:55 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: PROCON

We’ve seen this before. Apparently there’s an unwritten rule, if you don’t do it right away (like firing Comey on Day 1), you shouldn’t do it.


12 posted on 11/16/2019 8:37:24 AM PST by Buttons12
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"The State Department issued a December 2008 notice to Bush-appointed ambassadors to submit their resignations, effective when President Barack Obama took office in 2009"

State Dept was working for Obama before he took office.

Three years after Trump was elected, State Dept is still filled with 90% or more Obama supporters.

We need to wipe out the bureaucracy.

13 posted on 11/16/2019 9:20:50 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the worldÂ’s problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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You noticed. State was working for Obama while Bush was still president, but they didn’t follow the same protocol for Trump. The Trump Administration itself had to ask for resignations, and then left 70% of the diplomats in place because they were careerists, who have then proceeded to engage in a coup d’etat.


14 posted on 11/16/2019 9:29:36 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: PROCON

Nope when they are faced with truth they fall into a short term come.


15 posted on 11/16/2019 9:29:50 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: PROCON

Yeah, but bammy is protected by his melanin. Trump isn’t.


16 posted on 11/16/2019 10:08:37 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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And Billy Clinton fired 93 DOJ lawyers when he was Pres. Those folks serve at the pleasure of the President.....oh wait. I forgot, that only applies to Democratic Presidents.


17 posted on 11/16/2019 12:02:39 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: PROCON

D’rats — They play to win and play for keeps
Repub’s — They don’t even understand the game.

Sheeple — Don’t know they’re sheeple.’
Patriots — Afraid to cause trouble or get bloody.


18 posted on 11/16/2019 1:10:02 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and ho few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: PROCON

My goodness. They must have traumaticalized!!!


19 posted on 11/16/2019 3:14:12 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Well, actually Rahm Emanuel did.

I'm not sure Jug Ears had even figured out where the bathroom was at that point.
20 posted on 11/16/2019 4:15:35 PM PST by indthkr
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