Obama Appointments Are Against Jewish Law
It seems President Obama has a problem picking competent people to fill his cabinet posts and ambassadorships. For example, intelligent people know that Eric Holder is 'one of the most incompetent attorneys general in US history.' (1)
And recently Obama tried to repay some of his biggest donors/fundraisers with ambassador appointments - but some are dumber than a doorknob in regard to the country to which they would be assigned (2).
Yes, I know, U.S. Presidents have been rewarding political donors with ambassadorships since our country was founded (the traditional ratio is 30 percent political appointees/70 percent career diplomats) however, Obama in his first presidential run pledged to appoint more of those with foreign service experience (3) - another Obama promise broken, as usual.
Obama's candidates for ambassadorships are so incompetent, so stupid, so egregiously unqualified, that fifteen former presidents of the American Foreign Service Association felt compelled to urge the Senate not to confirm them (4).
Interestingly, thousands of years ago Jewish law prohibited exactly such behavior - the appointment of a judge who is not knowledgeable and was chosen due to extraneous considerations, such as the appointee lending or donating money to the person appointing him (5).
ENDNOTES
(1):
The Daily Caller, 24 Dec 2011, Krauthammer: Eric Holder ‘one of the most incompetent attorneys general in US history’
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder suggested racism was behind the attacks he was facing for the missteps his Department of Justice has made.
On Friday’s “Special Report with Bret Baier” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer explained what he thought was the rationale behind this charge from Holder: It’s a defensive tactic for his political troubles.
“It’s clearly a cheap shot of an attorney general who is in political trouble,” Krauthammer said. “The reason he is, he is one of the most incompetent attorneys general in U.S. history. He is the guy who brought on gratuitously the fiasco of the KSM [Kalid Sheikh Mohammed] trial in New York that even Democrats rebelled against. He is the guy who has led a department that has been either totally ignorant or disingenuous or worse on the Fast and the Furious scandal.”
(2):
The Washington Post, Obama ambassador nominees prompt an uproar with bungled answers, lack of ties
A century-old debate over whether presidents should reward political donors and allies by making them ambassadors has flared again after a string of embarrassing gaffes by President Obama’s picks.
The nominee for ambassador to Norway, for example, prompted outrage in Oslo by characterizing one of the nation’s ruling parties as extremist. A soap- opera producer slated for Hungary appeared to have little knowledge of the country she would be living in. A prominent Obama bundler nominated to be ambassador to Argentina acknowledged that he had never set foot in the country and isn’t fluent in Spanish.
(3):
Nicholas Kralev, 10 Jul 2009, Career diplomats protest Obama appointments
Mr. Obama has been criticized in recent weeks for continuing the tradition of handing out ambassadorships to major campaign donors with no experience in foreign affairs.
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The decision to uphold the historic ratio of 30 percent political appointees and 70 percent career diplomats came only after members of the Foreign Service protested to White House staff and Mrs. Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl D. Mills, officials said.
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Although the 30-70 ratio is not official, “all administrations have adhered fairly closely to it in the last several decades,” said Steven B. Kashkett, acting president of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), the diplomats’ union.The U.S. has 175 ambassadorial posts.
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Mr. Obama ran on a pledge to emphasize diplomacy and transparency but appeared to be well on his way to inflating the number of political appointees as ambassadors until the Foreign Service intervened.
“Why is ours the only profession where it’s considered acceptable to appoint someone without any experience?” Mr. Kashkett said. “Would you appoint someone to head a hospital without medical experience?”
Even if the White House respects the 30-70 ratio, “we still have concerns,” Mr. Kashkett said. “Thirty percent is not a comfortable number. We feel very strongly about the importance of appointing primarily professional diplomats as ambassadors.”
(4):
Diplopundit, 5 Mar 2014, 15 Former AFSA Presidents Urge Senators to Oppose Confirmation of Ambassadorial Nominees to Norway, Hungary, and Argentina
On Friday, March 7, fifteen former presidents of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) wrote to Senators Reid, McConnell, Menendez, Corker, Franken, Klobuchar, McCain, Cardin, Mikulski, Warner, Kaine, Whitehouse and others, urging the non-confirmation of President Obama’s nominees for ambassadors to Norway, Hungary and Argentina.
Below is an excerpt from their letter:
Among the nominees for ambassadorships currently under consideration by the Senate, three have generated considerable public controversy: George Tsunis (Norway), Colleen Bell (Hungary), and Noah Mamet (Argentina). The nominations of Mr. Tsunis and Ms. Bell have been forwarded to the full Senate by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.As former presidents of the American Foreign Service Association, the professional association and trade union of career members of the Foreign Service, we urge you to oppose granting Senate consent to these three candidates. Although we have no reason to doubt that the nominees are conscientious and worthy Americans, the fact that they appear to have been chosen on the basis of their service in raising money for electoral campaigns, with minimal demonstrated qualifications for their posts, has subjected them to widespread public ridicule, not only in the U.S. but also abroad. As a result, their effectiveness as U.S. representatives in their host countries would be severely impaired from the start. Their nominations also convey a disrespectful message, that relations with the host country are not significant enough to demand a chief of mission with relevant expertise.
(5):
The Schechter Institutes, The Agunah Dilemma
