Meet the new ambassador!
The White House's pick for ambassador to Japan was announced last week. His name is John Roos.
And, surely, you'd recognize such an auspicious name? Surely?
What's that? No? You've never heard his name before?
Yeah, me neither.
Turns-out he's some Silicon Valley lawyer bigwig who raised a bunch of money for Obama's campaign.
(Sigh)
I'll tell you, it was not always like this...
Nay. There was once a time when an ambassadorship to Tokyo was given to men of stature like Walter Mondale or Tom Foley.
Hell, even Ed Reischauer had plenty of academic cachet back in his time.
Doesn't this practice seem oddly 19th century to anyone?
And, surely, you'd recognize such an auspicious name? Surely?
What's that? No? You've never heard his name before?
Yeah, me neither.
Turns-out he's some Silicon Valley lawyer bigwig who raised a bunch of money for Obama's campaign.
(Sigh)
I'll tell you, it was not always like this...
Nay. There was once a time when an ambassadorship to Tokyo was given to men of stature like Walter Mondale or Tom Foley.
Hell, even Ed Reischauer had plenty of academic cachet back in his time.
Doesn't this practice seem oddly 19th century to anyone?
posted by Yamantaka @ 3:28 AM
2 Comments:
At June 1, 2009 at 5:13 AM ,
Autumn said...
Sometimes Obama does something that just boggles me. This is definitely one.
At June 2, 2009 at 4:11 AM ,
Yamantaka said...
My understanding is that Rod Blagojevich was willing to trade Obama's Senate seat for an ambassadorship.
Rod would've arguably been more qualified.
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