Four names emerge for UN position: report

The Hill ^ | Feb 18, 2019 | Miranda Green

[9YearLurker]

You’re not getting around the only reason he’s even being considered as such is his skin color. Millions of Americans with better qualifications.

And the UN ambassador doesn’t really have much of anything to do with deciding to go to war. Certainly didn’t re: Iraq.

[grania]

He’s got that WP degree and served his time. He runs and grew a family business. He doesn’t look at all compromised or in line to get favors. He’s very impressive. I’m glad he’s on our side, not theirs.

[entropy12]

I did not imply UN ambassador made the decision to invade Iraq. I was pointing to the foreign policy blunders made by “experienced” foreign policy experts.

Main problem in my opinion is people like George Bush and his advisers are not familiar with the mindset of radical Islam in middle-east.

And yes, the best approach to break the stranglehold democrats currently have on African-American voters (95%) is to show republicans have no problem promoting African_Americans. If republicans can snatch 15% of blacks away from democrats in major elections, it will be seismic change.

[qaz123]

Academics....great point.

Isn’t interesting when you see some of the people that are touted out as advisers for this and that. Especially things like, National Security Adviser and a few other sensitive posts like that.

Fox has that redhead, good looking, that was apparently a National Security Adviser to someone, somewhere. Don’t know her name. I know nothing about her, her background, her education and she might be as sharp as they come and has been on the right side of everything since the day she walked thru the door. And I’m not trying to be a chauvinist, but........when I think of a National Security Adviser, I want Jack Bauer, Cofer Black(real CIA guy, BTW), Jason Bourne, Chesty Puller, Patton. I don’t want some Ivy League, over-educated person that doesn’t know which end of the gun the bullet comes out of. I know that there’s more to it, but it’d be nice to have someone in those positions that knows the difference between an M1 Abrams and a HumVee.

Look at Ben Rhodes...no experience in anything and there he is, advising obama on national security issues. He was a f*cking speechwriter.

Rhodes then spent five years as an assistant to Hamilton, helping to draft the Iraq Study Group Report and the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

In 2007, Rhodes began working as a speechwriter for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

Rhodes wrote Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech “A New Beginning”. Rhodes was the adviser who counseled Obama to withdraw support from Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, becoming a key adviser during the 2011 Arab Spring.

Boy, that Arab Spring thing sure did turn out ok, didn’t it? Good Lord!!!!!!

[9YearLurker]

We as a country and as a party need to learn to stop desperately pushing African-Americans ahead to where they are beyond their preparation and likely to fail.

Far better to bring him along reasonably. He probably could have won a House seat and needs something of the equivalent of that in Trump’s admin.

That is not the UN ambassadorship for a guy with so little of that kind of public international and PR experience. It just isn’t. My guess is he’s in there as a floated name only, but I think giving him that position now would not be doing him any favors.

[9YearLurker]

The problem with Bush and his team was much deeper than that.

But no, Trump didn’t win the level of support he has now from AAs, which is higher than a Republican has had in decades, by pandering. That’s not what we need.

[grania]

It would be far better than Nikki Haley when she was there. You put in someone established, and who know’s what deep pockets already own them.

[9YearLurker]

Haley is anti-Trump, of course—despite her playing nice to get the added credential.

But again, you’re presenting a false dichotomy.

Also, isn’t he planning to run for the other Senate seat in MI in 2020? The primary is just 12 months out.