Caroline Kennedy as Ambassador to Japan

[SteadyMercury]

Expertise in Japan and North Asia? Nope.
Speaks Japanese? Nope.
Experience in international diplomacy? Nope.
Experience holding any political position? Nope.

Obama owes her a favor for election support? Yup.

What a stupid choice for this post, I hate the culture of back scratching that leads to appointments of unqualified people, and that our President adheres to it.

 

[Grandma]

And every President before him, all the way back to Washington.

 

[Antares]

And every President before him, all the way back to Washington.

Quite true, Ambaasadorial post have traditionally been paybacks.

Kennedy is a moron, but thats why she would get a Post like japan, they are a staunch ally and she will be nothing more than an Ornament for Social functions.

 

[Bfgrn]

And every President before him, all the way back to Washington.

Quite true, Ambaasadorial post have traditionally been paybacks.

Kennedy is a moron, but thats why she would get a Post like japan, they are a staunch ally and she will be nothing more than an Ornament for Social functions.

Caroline Kennedy is not a moron. She is not a politician.

 

[Antares]

And every President before him, all the way back to Washington.

Quite true, Ambaasadorial post have traditionally been paybacks.

Kennedy is a moron, but thats why she would get a Post like japan, they are a staunch ally and she will be nothing more than an Ornament for Social functions.

Caroline Kennedy is not a moron. She is not a politician.

I am afraid she is a moron...when they trotted her out as a NY Senatorial candidate she was forced to open her mouth.

It was not pretty and she subsequently pulled out of the election.

 

[Bfgrn]

Quite true, Ambaasadorial post have traditionally been paybacks.

Kennedy is a moron, but thats why she would get a Post like japan, they are a staunch ally and she will be nothing more than an Ornament for Social functions.

Caroline Kennedy is not a moron. She is not a politician.

I am afraid she is a moron...when they trotted her out as a NY Senatorial candidate she was forced to open her mouth.

It was not pretty and she subsequently pulled out of the election.

No, she is not a moron. She is not a politician. She is an author and a lawyer with a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, graduating in the top ten percent of her class.

YOU are a moron.

 

[Katzndogz]

Ambassador posts have traditionally gone to select individuals as political payback. Especially in countries like Japan or in Europe where there is little to be done. All Kennedy has to do is appear at a few official functions. For anything that does come up, like lost passports, or an injured American, a capable staff handles those things without the personal involvement of the Ambassador. Caroline Kennedy has been raised as a refined lady specifically schooled in social graces. She will do fine. It's not like Japan is Libya and she will be required to do something.

 

[Antares]

Caroline Kennedy is not a moron. She is not a politician.

I am afraid she is a moron...when they trotted her out as a NY Senatorial candidate she was forced to open her mouth.

It was not pretty and she subsequently pulled out of the election.

No, she is not a moron. She is not a politician. She is an author and a lawyer with a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, graduating in the top ten percent of her class.

YOU are a moron.

LOL, um sure dad....but she is still a moron.

 

[JWBooth]

Japan faces many challenges in the near and long term future.
It is an economic giant that has been staggering along, it has the economic and military growth of China, it has its status as a political neuter in foreign policy, and its place as a US subaltern all to deal with.
The appointment of Kennedy only reinforces their subordination to US foreign/military policy.

 

[Katzndogz]

Japan faces many challenges in the near and long term future.
It is an economic giant that has been staggering along, it has the economic and military growth of China, it has its status as a political neuter in foreign policy, and its place as a US subaltern all to deal with.
The appointment of Kennedy only reinforces their subordination to US foreign/military policy.

Japan faces many challenges. The United States is has nothing to do with those challenges. The Ambassador won't be consulted as to what Japan should do with it's own internal challenges. An Ambassadorship is, to a very large degree, a vanity post.

 

[Bfgrn]

I am afraid she is a moron...when they trotted her out as a NY Senatorial candidate she was forced to open her mouth.

It was not pretty and she subsequently pulled out of the election.

No, she is not a moron. She is not a politician. She is an author and a lawyer with a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, graduating in the top ten percent of her class.

YOU are a moron.

LOL, um sure dad....but she is still a moron.

Then you are proof of the old axiom: 'it takes one to know one'

 

[SteadyMercury]

And every President before him, all the way back to Washington.

Yup, and it sucks. It doesn't have to be that way, look at John Huntsman.

 

[Bfgrn]

If the people of Japan welcome her, that's all that matters. The Kennedy name is revered in Japan.

Opinion: Why Caroline Kennedy is a good pick for Japan post - CNN.com

It turns out the Kennedy family has an important legacy in U.S.-Japan relations. Kennedy's father and uncle, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, played important roles in transforming a troubled U.S.-Japan military alliance into the robust relationship the two countries enjoy today.

 

[rightwinger]

Her Grandfather was ambassador to England. That was quite an experence

 

[Bfgrn]

I just watched this video yesterday...it is awesome. You can see the love the President had for his little girl and how much she loved her daddy...too bad their time together was so short...

Kennedy Family, Guests Had A Pretty Fun Weekend 50 Years Ago (VIDEO)

 

[Granny]

Caroline Kennedy may not be a moron, but she's certainly politically involved. Granddaddy amassed a fortune in bootlegging, became powerful and someone probably did owe him and pay him with an Ambassadorship. Granddaddy's children were all groomed to be politicians.

Maybe it has less to do with politics than marital problems that need to have a lid kept on them? None of the Kennedy's seem to have been able to fare too well in that arena.

 

[PredFan]

I just watched this video yesterday...it is awesome. You can see the love the President had for his little girl and how much she loved her daddy...too bad their time together was so short...

Kennedy Family, Guests Had A Pretty Fun Weekend 50 Years Ago (VIDEO)

And that is relevant how again?

 

[Bfgrn]

I just watched this video yesterday...it is awesome. You can see the love the President had for his little girl and how much she loved her daddy...too bad their time together was so short...

Kennedy Family, Guests Had A Pretty Fun Weekend 50 Years Ago (VIDEO)

And that is relevant how again?

It is more 'relevant' than asshole like you are.

 

[Bfgrn]

Caroline Kennedy may not be a moron, but she's certainly politically involved. Granddaddy amassed a fortune in bootlegging, became powerful and someone probably did owe him and pay him with an Ambassadorship. Granddaddy's children were all groomed to be politicians.

Maybe it has less to do with politics than marital problems that need to have a lid kept on them? None of the Kennedy's seem to have been able to fare too well in that arena.

Ah, the biggest Kennedy myth.

The facts of Kennedy’s life (that he was rich; that he was in the liquor business; that he was deeply unpopular and widely distrusted) were rich loam for a rumor that did not begin to blossom until nearly 30 years after Repeal. Three times during the 1930s, Kennedy was appointed to federal positions requiring Senate confirmation (chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, Ambassador to Great Britain). At a time when the memory of Prohibition was vivid and the passions it inflamed still smoldered, no one seemed to think Joe Kennedy had been a bootlegger—not the Republicans, not the anti-Roosevelt Democrats, not remnant Klansmen or anti-Irish Boston Brahmins or cynical newsmen or resentful Dry leaders still seething from the humiliation of Repeal. There’s nothing in the Senate record that suggests anyone brought up the bootlegging charge; there’s nothing about it in the press coverage that appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, or The Boston Globe. There was nothing asserting, suggesting, or hinting at bootlegging in the Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune, or in the long-dry Los Angeles Times. Around the time of his three Senate confirmations, the last of them concluding barely four years after Repeal, there was some murmuring about Kennedy’s involvement in possible stock-manipulation schemes, and a possible conflict of interest. But about involvement in the illegal liquor trade, there was nothing at all. With Prohibition fresh in the national mind, when a hint of illegal behavior would have been dearly prized by the president’s enemies or Kennedy’s own, there wasn’t even a whisper.

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[Crackerjaxon]

I'm sure Caroline Kennedy would acquit herself well as Ambassador to Japan.