New Brit Ambassador’s Embarrassing Family Connection
The great irony in Susie Nemazee’s becoming an ambassador’s wife is that her brother had long harbored ambitions of being made an ambassador of the United States. He came close to being appointed ambassador to Argentina by Bill Clinton, but Senate Republicans opposed his nomination, which was eventually withdrawn amid questions about his business practices. As The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove tells it (his piece is also a good round-up of the Nemazee affair in general), so confident had Nemazee been of getting the post that he was taking Spanish lessons, which hopefully are at least enabling him to broaden his circle of friends in the clink.
According to Grove, Nemazee’s ambitions were rekindled when Obama won the White House. He thought his close friendship with Joe Biden would be enough to secure him an ambassadorship, but the law caught up with him before his dream could be realized (how a perceptive and urbane individual as Biden failed to see through Nemazee remains a mystery).
It would be nice to think that as Nemazee contemplates his remaining years of incarceration, he can take some pleasure in the fact that, while he’ll never get to be an ambassador of the United States, his sister is, after a fashion, living the dream on his behalf and will soon be doing so on U.S. soil.
And you never know: between the new family connection in Washington, his own connections to the famously forgiving Clinton, and Obama’s coddling of assorted crooks and fraudsters, he might just find himself free in time to pay them a visit.
Also read: Euro Deal Leaves Britain in Splendid Isolation
Agree on comments.
Congress should really start looking into these “bundlers.” After all, why would a person want to “bundle” so much money for any candidate? The obvious answer is that there is something in it for him or her if that candidate is elected, something big. And Barry Obama certainly did not disappoint his bundlers, as the Solyndra scandal openly pointed out. But Congress will probably not look into “bundlers” scandal simply because all of its members need them too, which is why people hate Congress so much. So long as we have a corrupt system that allows the use of these “bundlers,” we will have an American public that will remain disenchanted with the political process in this nation.
Short, sweet, and simple: “Birds of a feather flock together.”
An even bigger problem is that labor unions are allowed to extract money from their members (often unwillingly) and funnel it to political parties and campaigns. If corporations are forbidden to do this, then unions should be forbidden also.
Greetings:
You’re not thinking that this is some kind of payback by Great Britain for President Obama’s return of the Churchill bust, are you ???
Not only that, but also about the Falklands.
Call this a broad hint that the UK doesn’t appreciate receiving shabby treatment from the Obamaniacs.
i dont’ really understand the whole thing…they’re all a bunch of trashy social climbers, beat the other guy out of his cash etc…nothing new…what am i missing???
So what does this have to do with the sister?
Sir Peter Westmacott’s runing of the Paris embassy has come under scrutiny not just for lavish expenditure but also for his rather off-hand management style which resulted recently in some of his staff taking FCO to court in France and in Britain. In this You Tube clip he describes the ‘pin the donkey’s tail’ technique which failed to alert him to impending legal action – presumably because he allowed his army of middle-managers to weed out suggestions which impacted on their conduct?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hltPbMuqi0c ‘A Day In The Life of Sir Peter Westmacott, UK Ambassador to France (who in that post also had overall line management responsibility for the UK Ambassadors to OECD and to Unesco also in Paris).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8024961/Millions-spent-to-allow-ambassador-to-live-in-luxury-in-Paris.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8459166/British-ambassador-to-Paris-tops-the-Ferrero-Rocher-spending-league.html Note that ‘his one concession to austerity’ was to stop serving champagne … i wonder how that went down with the French?!
Notice how ‘his one concession to austerity’ was to start serving ‘crémant’ (sparkling wine) instead of Champagne. But I wonder how that went down with the French?!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8459166/British-ambassador-to-Paris-tops-the-Ferrero-Rocher-spending-league.html
One of the British Embassy in Paris management issues which Sir Peter Westmacott (the new Ambassador to Washington) leaves behind for his successor: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062876/You-Nazi–want-work-Distress-German-civil-servant-forced-Government-department.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7CtI8nx1Wc ‘I was the first to discover his terrible secret’ (Homer Simpson on JFK)