Bush gives UNQUALIFIED baseball owners ambassadorships!

[wndycty]

Playing ball: Baseball has been very, very good to President Bush - who reaped a $14 million windfall profit when he sold his stake in the Texas Rangers years ago. And Bush has been very good to major-league baseball owners.

Mother Jones magazine reports that at least five current and former owners are Bush-appointed U.S. ambassadors, including former Seattle Mariners owner George Argyros , now ambassador to Spain despite his inability to habla español; Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals co-owner Mercer Reynolds III , now ambassador to Switzerland, who speaks neither German nor Italian; St. Louis Cardinals co-owner Stephen Brauer , our man in Brussels, who doesn't speak French or Flemish; Texas Rangers co-owner Jeffrey Marcus , who very briefly was appointed ambassador to Belgium but never reported for duty because of sticky divorce proceedings; and former Texas Rangers co-owner and Bush cousin-by-marriage Craig Stapleton , ambassador to the Czech Republic, who reportedly stormed out of a tough meeting on Iraq with the Czech prime minister and undiplomatically slammed the door behind him.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/209656p-180668c.html

[elfin]

1. He's lining up the Commissioner's job

for when he is kicked out of office.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Such is life when we got a major domo Dufus in charge..

Did we expect diff?

Thisa Bush is a guy who doesn't care about America. about the job he is doing, He thinks of the Presidency as a JOKE.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Well, he's an unqualified baseball owner

And someone appointed him president. why not ambassadors too?

[elehhhhna]

4. No wonder "Old Europe" thinks we're

all crotch-adjusting spitters.

Very enlightening post. Thank you.

[Blue Wally]

5. Way it has always been......

Ambassadors to the nice places get appointed from political funds contributors while ambassdors to hellholes are state department career types. Usually an unqualified ambassador has a career type to hold his hand and keep him from doing something dumb. Let either Kerry or Bush know you have a few mill to contribute and you too can be ambassador to some nice place in Europe if they win.

[gula]

6. Ambassador to Switzerland is Pamela Willeford

http://www.us-embassy.ch/Ambassador.htm

replaced Marc Racicot who was called back to run Bu$h's fund raising.

Since this admin obviously cares nothing about diplomacy, international agreements or laws, nor about what anybody anywhere might think, does it really matter?

The world's opinion of the current US government is at such a low point that even the best diplomat would be hard pressed to do anything about it.

[wndycty]

7. Very interesting

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