{"id":25262,"date":"2014-04-22T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T14:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25262"},"modified":"2014-04-22T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T14:13:53","slug":"obamas-afterthought-appointment-as-us-ambassador-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/22\/obamas-afterthought-appointment-as-us-ambassador-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s afterthought appointment as US ambassador to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgarysun.com\/2014\/04\/21\/obama-gives-canada-cold-shoulder\" target=\"_blank\">Ezra Levant<\/a> isn&#8217;t impressed with President Obama&#8217;s choice for ambassador:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barack Obama waited nine months before replacing the last U.S. ambassador to Canada. The post was empty, and Obama just didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t much like Stephen Harper \u2013 compare Obama\u2019s icy body language towards Harper, to Obama\u2019s deep bow when he met the Saudi king, or his high fives with the Hugo Chavez, the late ruler of Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t feel singled out. That\u2019s how Obama treats many of America\u2019s traditional allies. He spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s cellphone. The White House&#8217;s bust of Winston Churchill was returned to the United Kingdom when Obama became president.<\/p>\n<p>Get used to it. Obama treats his friends worse than his enemies.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think a $600-billion-a-year trade relationship between Canada and the U.S. would warrant sending a new ambassador quickly. Apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>When Ottawa was finally blessed with Obama\u2019s choice this month, it was yet another Chicago crony capitalist \u2013 Bruce Heyman, a former Goldman Sachs banker who, together with his socialite wife, bundled $1.7 million for Obama\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Obama thinks of the diplomatic corps: a reward for personal service, and an incentive to future donors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Levant isn&#8217;t impressed with President Obama&#8217;s choice for ambassador: Barack Obama waited nine months before replacing the last U.S. ambassador to Canada. The post was empty, and Obama just didn\u2019t care. He doesn\u2019t much like Stephen Harper \u2013 compare Obama\u2019s icy body language towards Harper, to Obama\u2019s deep bow when he met the Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[158,727,432],"class_list":["post-25262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-diplomacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25263,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions\/25263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}