Barack Obama under fire for picking a crony fundraiser as his ambassador to Britain - Telegraph: "Critics said that it would have been more appropriate to dispatch a high profile diplomat at a time when there are fears in British government that Mr Obama is not as attached to the special relationship as his predecessors.
And they pointed out that there is little difference between handing a major diplomatic post to a fundraiser and the 'pay to play' scandal in which disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich apparently auctioned off Mr Obama's senate seat to the highest bidder.
Mr Susman's reputation for hoovering large amounts of cash from deep pockets saw him nicknamed 'the vacuum cleaner' when he raised more than $240million for John Kerry's White House bid in 2004."
Talk about an ambassodor that sucks! I didn't see this in the news here in the US, but it was on the front page of the Telegraph's website.
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