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Subject Obama selling US Ambassador positions to highest bidder!

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Original Message "The Obama administration has expanded the dubious White House practice of rewarding campaign donors with positions as ambassadors to foreign countries, a report from The Guardian said Wednesday.

Citing its own estimates based on figures leaked to the New York Times, the Guardian conjectured that ten recent or imminent appointees to foreign embassy positions had raised on average $1.8 million for Obama’s election campaign coffers.

The report noted that the ten donors had raised more than $5 million in 2013 alone. In contrast, the comparable number for George Bush’s appointees in 2001 was only $800,000.

The practice has increased under Obama’s watch to such an extent that some officials within the State Department are sounding the alarm. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering told the Guardian that in essence, the White House was practicing “simony” by selling elite diplomatic positions to the highest bidder.

Besides the moral implications of such cronyism, Pickering also pointed out that the practice damages relationships with the foreign countries to which the donors are posted."

[link to dailycaller.com]

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