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| Barack Obama under fire for picking a crony fundraiser as his ambassador to Britain | |
| 2009-02-22 | |
Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row after reports that he intends to make Louis Susman, one of his biggest fundraisers, the new US ambassador in London.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Strange we can believe in. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2009-02-22 23:00 |
| #6 Mr Susman, a lawyer and banker... So that's what happens to lawyers/bankers in the hard current times. During the Great Depression, some jumped off tall buildings. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-02-22 10:31 |
| #5 ...to sell those T-Bonds (and sell out the Tibetans) Tibetans were sold out before Abraham Lincoln was even an itch in his daddy's pants. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-02-22 08:07 |
| #4 I was gonna bet it was gonna be Joe's grandaughter you know. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-02-22 08:02 |
| #3 .....a lawyer and banker from the president's hometown of Chicago, rather than an experienced diplomat And the downside is? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-02-22 07:53 |
| #2 ...Well, good grief - how do people think Joe Kennedy got that job back in '38? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2009-02-22 07:29 |
| #1 It's not like its the most important assignments in the personnel list anymore. Now who they send to Beijing to sell those T-Bonds (and sell out the Tibetans), that's important. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-02-22 03:48 |