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Anna Wintour is a ludicrous pick
for US Ambassador to London:
the Special Relationship is
not a fashion statement

Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner

Original Article

Posted By:Attercliffe, 12/4/2012 4:30:30 PM

John Adams, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan. Andrew Mellon, W. Averell Harriman – these are some of the distinguished names of US Ambassadors to the Court of St. James´s over the past 250 years. And now Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, is reportedly in the running to become the next US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, to succeed the outgoing Louis Susman. According to Bloomberg, Wintour was among “Obama’s biggest bundlers of donations in the campaign”, raising over $500,000 to re-elect the president. As Bloomberg notes, the Obama administration (like many previous US administrations)

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Now that two British political writers have begun the avalanche of scorn for the woman, Obama is quite likely to appoint her his Wintour of Their Discontent.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: vlams, 12/4/2012 4:38:37 PM     (No. 9048515)

Even the suggestion that this might take place is indicative of the present president´s claimed heritage via his father -- at least the bust of Churchill is an object and inanimate.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Emmajustin, 12/4/2012 4:46:04 PM     (No. 9048522)

She might be a b&&ch and impossible to work with, but oh boy she dresses well.
/s


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 12/4/2012 4:50:46 PM     (No. 9048533)

FTA: "...Obama’s picks are slightly above the 30 percent average for envoys drawn from outside the career foreign service, said Susan Johnson, ... Obama nominated 59 ambassadors, including 40 bundlers, who lacked experience in the diplomatic corps."

Yeah - just "slightly" above the 30% average, if you think that 68% is just "slightly" above.

/s off/


Reply 4 - Posted by: ronnietheK, 12/4/2012 4:54:13 PM     (No. 9048539)

It´s a total diss to the UK by appointing this twit as ambassador.


Reply 5 - Posted by: sardonic, 12/4/2012 4:55:34 PM     (No. 9048543)

Obama´s anti-Anglo bigotry manifests in subtle ways. One of them being putting a clown up as our ambassador to the U.K.


Reply 6 - Posted by: gagolfer, 12/4/2012 5:01:28 PM     (No. 9048557)

Perfect for France though, for which she has also been mentioned.


Reply 7 - Posted by: JAN, 12/4/2012 5:05:14 PM     (No. 9048564)

Wintour and Hollande

Perfect together.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Grambo, 12/4/2012 5:10:16 PM     (No. 9048574)

I´m waiting to see he appoints to Libya.


Reply 9 - Posted by: NancyD, 12/4/2012 5:36:42 PM     (No. 9048610)

She´s not a very attractive woman...


Reply 10 - Posted by: pomom, 12/4/2012 5:53:24 PM     (No. 9048634)

We´ll soon be reading about the millions of dollars she squanders on her office digs, travel, and personal expenses. What a freaking joke this is.


Reply 11 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 12/4/2012 5:54:39 PM     (No. 9048635)

Is there no end to Zero´s attempts to disgrace this great nation?!


Reply 12 - Posted by: beca, 12/4/2012 6:16:44 PM     (No. 9048670)

more rewards for obama sniffers....this woman is a JOKE........but then so is the president


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Susannah, 12/4/2012 6:22:38 PM     (No. 9048673)

Great pun, OP. And yes, this is a sign of his total contempt for the U.K.


Reply 14 - Posted by: ScarletPimpernel, 12/4/2012 6:23:41 PM     (No. 9048674)

Wintour has dual British/U.S. citizenship; she was born in the UK. Type in her name at Wikipedia. She sounds like a real piece of work. She would not make a good representative of these United States.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Flipper3, 12/4/2012 6:24:52 PM     (No. 9048675)

God, she´s ugly.


Reply 16 - Posted by: coldoc, 12/4/2012 6:48:04 PM     (No. 9048706)

I think it´s a great idea. We can stop the pretense of 52% of this country not being a bunch of idiots. Who better to represent obama in great britain then some pretentious narcissistic clown.


Reply 17 - Posted by: happywarrior, 12/4/2012 6:55:21 PM     (No. 9048714)

´Baby, that´s a man!´


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: earlybird, 12/4/2012 7:12:03 PM     (No. 9048727)

Ha! This pretentious, superficial, egomaniacal woman is being mocked on both sides of the Atlantic. She´s being Alinskyed! How rich is that?

Some payback for all of her fundraising efforts. Obit put her out there with a target on her chest.

Few will ever forget her abysmally arrogant feature article on the Assads, published about the time that he was killing his own people in the streets. The mass murdering had been going on long enough for Anna to have pulled the feature, but no. It is still up on the Assads´ own website. Have your barf bag ready and tell me if Wintour is SoS material:

http://www.presidentassad.net/ASMA_AL_ASSAD/Asma_Al_Assad_News_2011/Asma_Assad_Vogue_February_2011.htm


Reply 19 - Posted by: Teleologicus, 12/4/2012 7:18:33 PM     (No. 9048736)

Perfect. The show is only getting started. Conservatives need to get their popcorn and take a seat. Americans are about to find out more about Obama than they, many of them, had any idea when they gave him another four years to foul things up. He really did need the extra four years to make a domestic and international mess so big that it would be impossible to deny, excuse, or blame on someone else. Too bad, but the election proves that a majority of the electorate can only learn the hard way, by bitter experience. Then we will be able to crow and rub it in and say "We told you so! We tried to warn you, but O no, you wouldn´t listen! How do you like the situation NOW?" That, of course, is petty and irrelevant. The greater hope that the inevitable collision of Obama´s Ship of Fools with the iceberg of reality will be a memorable disaster that will spare America from the sophomoric fantasies of Leftists for a long time to come. "Remember Obama!" will enter the language like "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember the Maine!" We will in a curious way have cause to be grateful to him and his cronies for what they in their infinite folly have done to themselves and their ideology.

Go for it, dude! Appoint the fashion lady as Ambassador to U.K. Hold out for tax increases, refuse to make meaningful spending cuts. Keep encouraging the enemies of Israel(and America) to resort to violence. Keep lying about Benghazi and everything else. Be yourself! Don´t hold back!


Reply 20 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 12/4/2012 7:25:53 PM     (No. 9048746)

Play word-swap & drop to fix headline: Anna Wintour is a ludicrous pick from US President: the Special snot a fashion statement.

PS: We don´t like him either. Churchill´s bust would make a better chief executive.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Starlady, 12/4/2012 7:28:35 PM     (No. 9048748)

Just remember if you accept the post of ambassedors under Zero, he does NOT have your back. You may end up dead.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 12/4/2012 7:44:04 PM     (No. 9048766)

Makes for a very James Bondian setting though.

The day she arrives to begin her ambassadorship in a country that is offended by her triviality would make a great opening scene for a novel.

Sucks that we´re livin´ it.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: stablemoney, 12/4/2012 8:02:30 PM     (No. 9048787)

Just consider the alternative nuts that Obama has on his list of possible appointments and it becomes apparent that it doesn´t matter if it is Anna Wintour or some other nut.


Reply 24 - Posted by: surgedr, 12/4/2012 9:24:01 PM     (No. 9048883)

All of Europe wanted Obama reelected..including Great Britain

Just remember be careful what you wish for!



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