George Tsunis, a businessman and lawyer from Long Island, NY, donated $50,000 to John McCain's campaign for president in 2008. In 2012, he switched sides, and bundled nearly $1 million in donations for the Obama campaign. So, naturally, like other bundlers with no foreign policy experience, he was near the top of the list for a plum ambassadorial post. Unfortunately, the Senate still has retained the formality of confirmation hearings.
The future U.S. Ambassador to Norway flubbed, badly, in his hearings--or, as one Norwegian website put it, gave a "a faltering, incoherent performance" that "display[ed] total ignorance of Norway." Tsunis endured the indignity of being corrected on factual points by none other than Sen. McCain himself, but remained "apparently under the impression that the country is a republic rather than a constitutional monarchy."
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Take a minute to digest what "The Local" wrote... and, some still wonder why we are thought of as we are by the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteAs a knowledgeable and educated society we suck, as a greedy self indulgent society Americans excel.