Good question re ameriKa's glamorous political fools

I go for years wondering when somebody's going to call the "emperor's new clothes" on the Obamistas in some actually irreverent, scathing way. Here's a masterly job of it:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/us-ambassador-picks-103242.html#.Uvx_U_ldWhM
Why Does America Send So Many Stupid, Unqualified Hacks Overseas? 

.......The resumé imbalance, of course, owes to a simple fact: The United States is the only industrialized country to award diplomatic posts as political spoils, often to wealthy campaign contributors in an outmoded system that rivals the patronage practices of banana republics, dictatorships and two-bit monarchies. A similar system once allowed political allies to become military officers, but Congress outlawed the practice after the Civil War, during which the public recoiled at the needless slaughter brought on by incompetent cronies who had been appointed generals (men like Daniel Sickles, whose insubordination at Gettysburg caused more than 4,000 Union casualties). Representing the United States in a foreign capital, however, is a privilege still available to any moneyed dolt with party connections.

And President Obama—who entered office promising to limit the practice and instead appoint more Foreign Service professionals to ambassadorial positions—has arguably done more to exacerbate the problem than his recent predecessors.........

There it is. You and I are smart and with-it enough to take on one of these jobs. Heck, We could randomly pick a K-Mart shopper and they'd likely be less embarrassing at it! WE ARE BEING RULED AND REPRESENTED BY PERFECT ASSES. That's the strongest I'll put it in a family discussion forum.

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