Obama nominates fundraiser to Paris post

[MADem]

40. Yes, it does, actually! She was at a party with Henry Kissinger--that's how everyone gets jobs?

Nooooo...that's not how professional diplomats are hired! However, rich people wanting a bit of excitement and purpose and "position" in their lives...well, there ya go!

How do you think she GOT that UN posting from Nixon? Because he just, ya know, liked her? Naaah--here's how it went down:

Black indeed came back, but perhaps not in the way she initially imagined. In 1968, she went on a European fundraising tour for the Nixon presidential campaign. In 1969, President Nixon appointed her to the five-member delegation to the UN General Assembly, where she earned praise for speaking out on issues such as environmental problems and refugee crises. She later served as US ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, President Gerald Ford's chief of protocol for the State Department from 1976 to 1977, and ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1989, serving there during the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.



http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/02/shirley-temple-dead-85-politics-congress-vietnam-nixon

And, you DO know that an AMBASSADORSHIP, under the Nixon administration, went for a minimum of a cool quarter million dollars in campaign contributions? All he gave her was a lousy UN delegation slot--and she pulled in far more than that! Of course Shirley had some serious "draw" and name recognition; she could make that amount with a hand tied behind her back:

Seven years after that, she ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California but stayed in politics, helping raise more than $2 million for President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-shirley-temple-idUSBREA1A0LD20140211

The bottom line is this: Shirley Temple Black's diplomatic career was founded on her early screen career coupled with her enormous wealth and prodigious ability to fundraise. THAT is why she danced in the rarefied air where she could meet Henry Kissinger at a dinner party; that's why she delivered over two million bucks to the GOP in just one election cycle. Money talks--no, it SCREAMS. Now, she may have done well at her jobs--and good for her--but if she had been Shirley Temple Black, unknown but clever graduate of a doctoral program at one of America's finest universities, with the VERY SAME knowledge, the VERY SAME political view, and the VERY SAME physical appearance, but without the bankroll, she would not have been given the time of day.

Money talks. She had it. She knew how to raise it. Quid pro quo, indeed. And that's the name of that tune!!