Bush Appoints Political Backer To Ambassadorship
My first reaction to this (aside from “Who is Sam Fox again?”) was…meh. Who cares? I mean, it’s Ambassador to Belgium. A government position that’s almost as powerful and influential as White House janitor.
It would actually be more desirable than Congressional janitor if you didn’t have to, you know, live in Belgium.
But the left will go nuts over this. Mostly because Fox gave some money to the Swift Boat Vets, and because Bush didn’t subject the poor guy to a week or so of pedantic Democrat demagoguing, allowing those shallow twits to squeeze all the political juice out of procedure they could, before appointing him to the position anyway. But none of that will matter. The message the public will get from the media is that Bush did this guy a political favor in exchange for his funding the Swift Boat “attacks” on Kerry.
Which is exactly the message the Dems want the media to send. Funny how that works, isn’t it?
Regardless, what a dumb move by Bush. As though he needed more bad press right now. He should have avoided this. But, then again, I guess he’s probably saying to himself that his press couldn’t get much worse anyway. May as well fling a pie or two in their collective faces while he still can.
