Dominicans Rage Against Obama's Gay Ambassador Pick

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32. I'd actually imagine quite a few ambassadors to the United States hold odious views

I'm open to the possibility that, e.g., the Sudanese or Saudi ambassadors to the United States, or the Vatican's nuncio, might be egalitarian feminists, or that the Japanese ambassador holds reasonable views about war crimes and desires a transparent and fair criminal justice system by our standards, but I'd be rather surprised if any of those were the case.

Ambassadors represent their host governments by definition, and that means they're occasionally going to be hold stances which the government they're speaking to despises. It's probably actually better for any kind of honest diplomacy rather than putting up that much of a false front. After all, the US and the Soviets maintained embassies through the Cold War even though each utterly despised the other's positions on most things. On a local and pettier level, I would've been thrilled had the Canadian government PNGd Cellucci for his overall attitude, but he sure as hell represented the stances and goals of the Bush administration.

The policies overall are something else entirely, but with the representatives in general there's pretty much always going to be a certain level of nose-holding. It's part of the diplomatic game and has been for centuries.