Anna Wintour to be a U.S. Ambassador? ‘Ludicrous’!

[Draggingtree]

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Anna Wintour to be a U.S. Ambassador? ‘Ludicrous’!

 

 

December 5, 2012 | Filed under Barack Obama,Big government,corruption,Culture Of Corruption,Democrats,Foreign Affairs | Posted by Warner Todd Huston

 

News broke today that President Obama is considering offering the position of the next U.S. Ambassadorship to Great Britain to Anna Wintour, the editor of fashion magazine Vogue. This caused at least one Brit to call the whole idea “ludicrous.”

 

Indeed, the offer seems incomprehensible. To offer the ambassadorship to one of our most important allies to a prickly, sullen, misanthrope like Wintour defies logic. Aside from her arrogant, self-important attitude, it doesn’t even appear that she has any qualifications, temperament or otherwise, to take such an important role.

 

As Nile Gardiner of the British newspaper The Telegraph notes, Wintour doesn’t measure up in stature and intellect to some of our past ambassadors. Noting that John Adams, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Andrew Mellon, and W. Averell Harriman were some of our past ambassadors to the Court of St. James’s, Gardiner finds the whole idea of Wintour joining those illustrious Americans a “ludicrous” idea.

 

Gardiner goes on to point out that Wintour was a huge donor and fundraiser for Obama’s recent re-election contest — she raised some 40 million bucks — but rightly said that raising money should not be the sole qualification for a post that is “hugely important to U.S. interests.” The ambassadorship to Great Britain “should not be seen as a sinecure for donors to presidential campaigns,” Gardiner said.

 

Another writer for The Telegraph also criticized

[Casino67]

But she would be dressed so well.

[SrWoodchuck]

A continuation of Obama's hatred for the Colonial Oppressive British. He finds a woman that showed her immense good judgement ......by raising millions from sycophantic celebutards.....and is able to send an hysterical historical beeyotch to be our point of contact with one of our "allies." Well done....tut,tut,tut.....

 

Edited to add: When I saw your header:

Anna Wintour to be a U.S. Ambassador? ‘Ludicrous’!

 

I thought maybe Ludicrous was also being nominated for an Ambassadorship.......someplace like.....Iran or Egypt....you know....a prize posting with little chance of repercussion.

Edited December 6, 2012 by SrWoodchuck

[nickydog]

That post is always political -- it has nothing to do with diplomatic experience.