Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Japan

[kpete]

Source: Washington Post

Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Japan
By Emily Heil

Caroline Kennedy will be the U.S. ambassador to Japan. (Mary Altaffer - AP) Looks like there will be a Camelot East — make that Far East: Caroline Kennedy is heading to Tokyo to be the U.S. ambassador. Kennedy, whose support for President Obama during his 2008 campaign was seen as crucial, had been widely talked about as a candidate for the plum diplomatic post, but now things have apparently been firmed up.

The move, which her office did not return a call about, is almost certain to thrill the Japanese, who like their American ambassadors to be superstars. Kennedy’s predecessors include luminaries like legendary Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield, former vice president Walter Mondale, former House speaker Tom Foley, and former Senate majority leader Howard Baker.

We hear that her husband Edwin Schlossberg, who owns a New York-based design firm, won’t be joining her full-time in Tokyo.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/caroline-kennedy-to-be-ambassador-to-japan/2013/03/29/3bb59450-989e-11e2-b68f-dc5c4b47e519_blog.html?wprss=rss_in-the-loop

[ucrdem]

1. "a Camelot East" for Easter

is better than an April Fool, and this is great news! Thanks kpete

[Paul E Ester]

2. That might be the coolest gig in the world, minus the radiation....nt

[oldandhappy]

3. She will be lovely

[L0oniX]

4. Camelot??? Someone always has to say that shit.

[marshall]

5. Glad they found a post for her

She deserves to have a good job. Good luck to her, she will do very well.

[walkerbait41]

6. Ms. Ambassador

Caroline Kennedy

[Cha]

7. Caroline Kennedy will be a lovely Ambassador to Japan.

thanks kpete

[Zorro]

8. Smells like an April Fool's joke

[BeyondGeography]

9. Payback time, plus the Japanese will be flattered

Kennedy was a very important donor for the Obama campaign in 2008 and again in 201, when she was a co-chair of the Preisdent's re-election campaign. She apparently had her choice of ambassadorships as a kind of reward — Japan or Canada, according to the Wall Street Journal, and living in Ottawa is like living in a Boston with less personality. So it's not surprising she took the more exotic route, is what we're saying. The Post says the move should appease the Japanese because they like their ambassadors to be "superstars."

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/04/caroline-kennedy-japan-ambassador/63731/

[sannemoore]

10. Superstars become Ambassadors..

Caroline most certainly will be a good Ambassador to Japan. Someone ask me a few days ago, how I felt about my half sister becoming Ambassador, I have mixed feeling about her appointment, wishing her well yet worried about her safety. And then they ask when will it be your time. I answered Never.. My time being JFK's daughter has come and gone, turning 65. 9-17, I am really, The underground Democratic.

[Agschmid]

11. Um...

So she is your half sister? For real?