I'd still expect a people person such as Obama to look over the record of such appointees to see which are actually doing a job and doing it well rather than just dumping them. The argument that he should use whoever can do the job fails when there is such a move without evaluation.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Michael Dinowitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No matter what level of their experience, if they were pre-Bush or what. > > Spend years getting a good relationship with country X and person Y just > to > > lose all of that good experience. > > > > Or are we talking about some other form of ambassador job? > > It was making a distinction between foreign service officers who hold > ambassadorships (career civil servants with long standing > relationships with certain countries) and political appointed > ambassadors. The second category is not one where people typically > spend years or transcend administratrations but rather are rewards for > domestic political/financial favors. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282091 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
