Big donor with no experience is new ambassador to UK
OPS_admin | May 21, 2009 | Comments 0
OPS: What Change? Wonder if BO will, at some point, have to say “heckova job Louie” ?
Obama picks financial backer for UK ambassador post | guardian.co.uk
Chicago friend Louis Susman chosen for plum posting despite president’s promise to end cronyism in Washington
A little bit of Chicago’s ruthless and combative political machine is soon to descend on the decorous calm of the Court of St James. Despite promising to end cronyism in Washington, Barack Obama is about to appoint one of his home town friends and financial backers to the plum posting of US ambassador to London.
The next ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary will be Louis Susman, a lawyer and financier with little experience of foreign affairs.
The appointment will end months of speculation. Susman’s name first surfaced in a diary column in the Washington Post in February, but Caroline Kennedy was also mentioned, as was Oprah Winfrey, another of Obama’s Chicago supporters.
via Barack Obama picks Louis Susman for UK ambassador post | World news | guardian.co.uk.
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