I suspect that the French, who are known to be an emotional lot more concerned with their pride and dignity than with political pragmatism, may give this asshole a less than warm reception. They’ll go through the motions, but the idea will be to make him understand that they all fervently wish he would just discreetly fuck off.
No. The say, US ambassador to Canada, represents the best interests of the US. Canada’s best interests are represented in the US by the Canadian ambassador.
If the best interests are shared, that’s both good and serendipity.
Sure sounds like he means “us”, the people on the board he’s addressing.
I’m not Dear.
Just ask around.
Too bad about your Huskers. That was my bad. I started watching the game and was rooting for them.
It was a pretty blah game, but your support is appreciated. I only got to watch the 2nd half, in time to watch us claw defeat from the jaws of victory.
I see your team also ended up 6-6, so bowl eligible also . At least we’ll each get to watch one more game this season and won’t have to listen to “Fire da coach!” for the entire off season, no small thing.
That’s not correct. The plural is “doofi”.
Doofling, since they aren’t impressive enough to be a true Doofus.
The correct French plural is “doofaux”.
A common misconception; it’s from the Greek, so it’s “doofodes,” pronounce, doo-AH-fuh-deez.
There are so many other things to be embarrassed about, it might take awhile before I get around to that one.
I’m not embarrassed. I’m glad he will be there instead of here fucking up the Jersey Shore.
They’ve already posted a grande horizontale to the Paris Embassy in the shape of Pamela Harriman. Paris is a soft posting, as is the London one, whereas, say, Benghazi is probably something most of the political appointees would say, ‘thanks but no thanks’ to.
Just when you think they can’t get worse, Don Jr. plaything and former Faux News leg model Kim Guilfoyle was named ambassador to Greece.
That’s a real hot mess. Good thing she’s not going somewhere that actually matters to foreign policy, but I’m sure she’ll embarrass us, nonetheless.
Having worked in the Foreign Service, I can tell you that the Americans at the post are banging their heads on their desks and calling their career path advisors to try and get short-toured out of there before she arrives. People like her are a nightmare for support personnel. Demanding, ego-driven, spoiled, and with no concept of what they can and cannot do with tax dollars. As weird and eccentric as career ambassadors can be, I’d take them any day over some wannabe like this dipshit.
If you think our ambassadors are bad, wait till you hear about our next president!
Tripoli.
Yes.
At least in recent years there haven’t been major problems (that I’m aware of) with ambassadors pissing off allies, like there was in 1938-40 when FDR’s ambassador to England, Joe Kennedy was a huge defeatist predicting the downfall of the British and lobbying against U.S. support.
I feel like this little gem belongs here, too:
It used to be ‘better in the Bahamas.’