President Obama has appointed Noah Mamet as his nominee for the ambassador to Argentina. Mamet's only qualification appears to be that he bundled $1 million in donations for Obama's presidential campaign. While political hacks are often appointed to ambassadorships, normally an appointee has "some" knowledge of the country to which he or she is being sent. Mamet has admitted never even visiting a Latin American country let alone Argentina. And evidently there have been a series of less than stellar diplomatic appointees to various posts by Obama. Obama may even out do President Ulysses S. Grant for poorly prepared appointees.
From the Washington Examiner. Mamet's ignorance is even more marked in this account. Argentina is in the middle of a crisis and he seems to know nothing.
Buzzfeed reported Mamet's nomination angered Democratic donors. "Democratic Party donors complain privately that Mamet unfairly leveraged his clients' work for his own political gain and benefited from a close personal relationship with President Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina," Ruby Cramer wrote.
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