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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama vs. Greenwald on appointing bundlers to ambassadorships
President Obama just appointed a bundler -----who donated half a million dollars to Obama's campaign-- as ambassador to Argentina.
Glenn Greenwald believes this should not be the way our government works.
Which of these two views do you identify with the most?
QC
(26,371 posts)Therefore, appointing bundlers to high positions if the right thing to do.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Agony
(2,605 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)and I would still have fingers left over.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Because we all know Obama is perfect and divine, and would never take into consideration raising large sums of money for his campaign and giving an ambassadorship as "payback".
jehop61
(1,735 posts)Getting so tired of him and his drip, drip, drip journalism
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)Cha
(298,354 posts)At least Noah Bryson Mamet seems like he's into the truth and reality. Which is way more than can be said for GG and his fucking Lies.
KG
(28,754 posts)that way we can pretend he would never lie, compromise his principles,trade favors for donations, etc.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)And the fraction of political to ambassadorial appointees under Obama administration falls within the range of the past administrations: for all administrations since the Ford era, this fraction varies from a low of 0.27 (Carter) to a high of 0.38 (Ford), with an overall average of 0.32 over all ambassadorial appointments during the six administrations
Enrique
(27,461 posts)there's not much change.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)kelliekat44
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