Happiness Can Be Bought
Obviously. So please save your the-best-things-in-life-are-free spiel. Some indeed are, but lots of wicked awesome things are not.
Louis Susman was first rumored to be the next US ambassador to the UK three months ago.
He deserves this honor because he raised oodles of cash for Obama: between $200,000 and $500,000 for Obama’s presidential campaign and another $300,000 for his inauguration.
This, combined with Obama’s choice of squillions of tax cheats, his overt social-engineering and his promotion of those without sufficient qualifications, all adds up to shooting our meritocracy in the face with a bazooka.
Along with Susman, Charles Rivkin has been nominated as ambassador to France (he also collected more than $500,000 for Obama’s campaign and $300,000 for his inauguration) and John Roos as ambassador to Japan (he raised more than $500,000).
By my calculations, therefore, the next potential ambassador to Eritrea probably raised about $300 for The One’s ascension.
That’ll teach anyone else to be so lackadaisical.
June 14th, 2009 at 14:25
And a certain Donald Beyer bought his ambassador post (source in German) to Switzerland for a whopping 500′000 US-$.
Of course, by being a Democrat fundraiser. His own contribution (probably in line with US laws) was just 4600 US-$.