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Cringe-worthy Obama nominee withdraws [For Ambassador to Norway]
American Thinker ^ | 12/16/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/16/2014 1:37:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind

I confess that I halfway looked forward to George Tsunis being confirmed as ambassador to Norway.  He could have made for a highly amusing storyline on Season 3 of Lilyhammer, the hilarious Netflix Original series that satirizes political correctness in Norway and the clash of cultures between American Mafiosi and Scandinavian self-righteous niceness.  But when Harry Reid failed to shove him through Senate confirmation in the back-door deal last weekend, the handwriting was on the wall for the spectacularly unqualified nominee.  No way would a GOP majority next year confirm such an ignorant putz.

David Matosko of the U.K. Daily Mail brings us the news most of the American media is too busy to report.

Opposition to President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Norway has grown in Congress to the point where Long Island, New York businessman George Tsunis now says he doesn't plan to pursue the job when the new Congress convenes in January. (snip)

During his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, however, he bungled questions about Norway's political parties and spoke of the nation's 'president' – even though it is a constitutional monarchy with a king and a prime minister.
Tsunis also claimed that the Progress Party, a Norwegian anti-Islamist party that opposes immigration above a token 1,000 people per year and advocates for AIDS testing for all new arrivals, was a fringe group and nothing more.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: ambassador; california; georgetsunis; harryreid; nancypelosi; norway

1 posted on 12/16/2014 1:37:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL, I remember seeing this buffoon’s confirmation hearing. Man, talk about not doing your homework! The guy had no clue whatsoever.


2 posted on 12/16/2014 1:42:06 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No caption needed

3 posted on 12/16/2014 1:43:02 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: DemforBush
I've been here in Oslo for the last year. When the Norwegians heard about this guy's confirmation hearing, they were pissed. Typically the Norwegians don't complain that much about Americans, Georgie Porgie, really got them going.

“The President of Norway”

What a Maroon!

4 posted on 12/16/2014 1:46:02 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Veto!

looks like the lights might be on, but there is definitely no one home.

I know, being judgmental, especially since it’s a profile shot.

Sue me! LOL


5 posted on 12/16/2014 1:47:49 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: Veto!
No caption needed

No caption desired.

6 posted on 12/16/2014 1:49:01 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Veto!

Bacon...more bacon !


7 posted on 12/16/2014 1:51:23 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“what did have for lunch?”

“Chris Cristie”


8 posted on 12/16/2014 1:55:05 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't spell liberal without label.)
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To: Veto!
We are the beautiful people.
9 posted on 12/16/2014 1:55:21 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Boiler Plate

Hope the Norwegians don’t learn that you’re a Freeper. Pretty sure that would be a hate crime of some sort.


10 posted on 12/16/2014 1:55:49 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents and supporters are Traitors.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s pining for the fjords.


11 posted on 12/16/2014 2:00:22 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Boiler Plate
“The President of Norway”

I'm sure he's also fluent in the Austrian language.

12 posted on 12/16/2014 2:01:49 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Veto!

For the fun of it: TWO PIGS AT THE SLOP TROUGH


13 posted on 12/16/2014 2:05:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Personally if any US citizen become ambassor to Norway should be this dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9rhb37iAMk


14 posted on 12/16/2014 2:07:11 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Veto!

No joke, is he retarded?


15 posted on 12/16/2014 2:17:58 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Dagnabitt
Actually no. They are more conservative than most of Europe and there are in fact there A LOT of Guns here. One of the locals has promised me a day with a MG-42.

It has been interesting educating them on Obamacare. Once they discover it is nothing more than a tax they are suddenly not so enamored with the 0.

The Swedes and Danes are just too full of themselves to actually learn anything. Its actually comically as to how the think they can tell an American how America works.

16 posted on 12/16/2014 2:34:09 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Boiler Plate

Maybe. They’ve still managed to significant parts of their capital city into Karachi/Mogadishu.


17 posted on 12/16/2014 2:44:50 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents and supporters are Traitors.)
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To: Veto!

Did this criminal nancy ghoul just feed him a dozen jelly-doughnuts?


18 posted on 12/16/2014 4:16:24 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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