More Obama foreign policy moves:
Obama’s A-list campaign fundraisers are turning out to be B-list ambassador nominees.
Several of his nominees in recent weeks have had cringe-worthy moments in their confirmation hearings. And people are starting to take notice.
Two nominees, who also happen to be top fundraisers for the president’s campaigns, stumbled in the same hearing last month by botching questions about the countries they were tapped to serve in.
George Tsunis, a hotel magnate, was slammed in the Norwegian media for displaying a “total ignorance of Norway” in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in January.
And just this week, Obama’s nominee to Argentina Noah Bryson Mamet, also a top Obama bundler, was caught admitting that he had never been to the country.
Nominating allies and top fundraisers to plum diplomatic posts isn’t a phenomenon Obama invented, but the lack of preparation on the part of his nominees is becoming the source or unflattering headlines.
Hilarity ensues:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/02/5-most-cringe-worthy-blunders-from-obamas-ambassador-nominees/?google_editors_picks=true
