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Caroline Kennedy selected to be Japan ambassador
2013-07-25
News article doesn't say when she will be in Tokyo to present her credentials, but a safe bet would be sometime after she sobers up.

As an aside, the article headline reads: Obama taps Caroline Kennedy for Japan ambassadorship

They could find a better verb than tap? The question is would you tap a Kennedy for an ambassadorship?

From TFA:
President Obama nominated Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former president John F. Kennedy, to be ambassador to Japan.

Kennedy, whose early and strong support for Obama's 2008 bid gave his candidacy a key boost in helping him win the nomination over then-front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, had been expected to get a top job in the administration.

Posted by:badanov

#7  For the collectivists, taps is appropriate, like tapping Manny Mota; also goes along with their childish sexual innuendo fever.

Japan and the entire west pacific is on a balance right now, where putting bad stone into an arch will reap a collapse. Japan needed a serious worker and received a crony appointment. I'd be pissed as Japan.

And what is that, a self portrait?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2013-07-25 10:51  

#6  Would a Delmont 88 make it across the Pacific?
Posted by: Raj   2013-07-25 09:55  

#5  Another clear signal that nations must look out for their own security interests because they can't count on Washington to play the Pax Americana game anymore.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-07-25 07:47  

#4  Given the family history of flying and driving you would think the Kennedy's would just take up day drinking at home.
Posted by: Airandee   2013-07-25 07:42  

#3  A show of respect for Japan.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-07-25 05:50  

#2  Sometimes the sustainment of patrilineality must be properly financed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-07-25 03:36  

#1  From April 4, 2013 The floating of the "Trial Ballon" ---Ambassador to Japan -- Ummm, you know ---
Posted by: Au Auric   2013-07-25 00:38  

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