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Steve Clemons thinks Caroline Kennedy would do better as ambassador to the Court of St. James.
The Ambassador from People Magazine
Power Line —
... Steve Clemons serves up a strong late entry for silliest idea of the year, urging that Caroline Kennedy be named the U.S. Ambassador to England. Kennedy is even less qualified for that job than she is for the Senate, having no background in foreign policy and no diplomatic experience. To be sure, this is true of many who are appointed ambassador, but they typically (though, unfortunately, not always) are sent to backwater nations, not to our most important ally. Indeed, it would be an insult to that ally to inflict an unqualified dilettante who has suddenly decided to bless ...
The David Paterson Caroline Kennedy New York Senate Seat Saga Continues
The Moderate Voice —
... to be named to fill out Senator Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat — or have the wheels come off the Royalty Express that’s trying to speed down New York’s political tracks?
Stories about Kennedy and Governor David Paterson continue to proliferate…one story suggesting she has a fast track…others suggesting that the Governor is irked that people consider here a frontrunner in a decision that he alone has the power to make.
Steve Clemons has a suggestion that he thinks could neatly resolve it: the new President ...
Steve Clemons: Obama and Ted Kennedy See Plans Foiled as Caroline Withdraws?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... I have advocated that the Obama team offer her a high profile and distinguished Ambassadorship. Perhaps to London where her grandfather, Joseph Kennedy, once served -- or perhaps to France, which her mother loved so much. In such a spot, she'd have an opportunity to show she was more than a brand name and could contribute to the substantive interests and welfare of the United States. And then perhaps run in an election for something big -- and perhaps even win. We will always have political aristocrats in America, but the barrier that should always be imposed for those who ...
An award only the "ambassador to metaphors" can love
Power Line —
... Late last Dectember, Steve Clemons served up the silliest piece of writing I saw in all of 2008 when he suggested that Caroline Kennedy be named ambassador to Great Britain. Steve argued that Ms. Kennedy had solid credentials to be ambassador to a key ally (as Britain was then thought to be) because she has been "playing the role of Ambassador on behalf of her father's memory and her clan for a long time." I responded that we should keep Kennedy in that role, send Ernie "Mr. Cub" Banks to the Court of St. James, and make Clemons the "Ambassador on behalf of" metaphors, puns, ...
