re: #255 Lidane

Don’t you mean Jon Huntsman?

Personally, I don’t blame the guy for getting the hell out of dodge. He’s fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien, which puts him to very good use overseas. It also removes him from all this teabagger nonsense, since he can just shrug and say he was abroad at the time and wasn’t in a position to get involved.

Smart move all around for him. He’s burnishing his foreign policy credentials and staying out of the current GOP circular firing squad.

And also smart for Obama, since appointing Hustsman removes him from any 2012 competition. Plus it removes the GOP of a rare non-lunatic, so it makes the Dems seem better by default.