WASHINGTON POST: Still depressed that you didn’t get that cushy ambassadorship? Able and willing to donate and bundle ginormous amounts of money for President Obama‘s reelection and for the D’s in 2012?
Then buck up! If history is any guide, there could be some fine ambassadorial openings starting toward the end of this year, and even more next year. These jobs are getting very, very expensive – the really plum ones are likely to go for upward of $1 million. So you’d best be preparing, getting your lists together…
Only two of the open jobs are in the traditionally-for-sale category – one in lovely Barbados (which includes a group of West Indies isles with phenomenal beaches, scuba diving and such) and, as of just last week, one at the embassy in Luxembourg, where mega-donor Cynthia Stroum quit after less than a year on the job… (more)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Not to worry. There is a foreign service officer who is the conduit with the State Department. In such cases, the ambassador is a social emmisary, like members of the British royal family.
