Ambassador swap
The White House yesterday announced the nomination of High Point businessman S. Davis "Dave" Phillips as U.S. ambassador to Estonia.
He'll replace Dr. Aldona Wos of Greensboro.
Nothing like keeping the job in Guilford County hands.
I can't find an announcement of Wos' departure. Just last week, she joined President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in a meeting with Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip in Tallinn. In October, she and her husband, Louis DeJoy, hosted Bush for a Republican fundraiser at their Greensboro home.
Dave Phillips is a former state commerce secretary under former Gov. Jim Hunt, a Democrat. He was a developer of the Market Square furniture showroom complex, now part of the Chicago-based Merchandise Mart Properties.
Bush seems to favor diplomats with Guilford County connections.
Dave Phillips' brother, Earl N. "Phil" Phillips Jr., was ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean during Bush's first term.
Greensboro's Bonnie McElveen Hunter, now national chairwoman of the American Red Cross, was U.S. ambassador to Finland.
U.S. ambassador to Denmark James P. Cain, former president of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team, lived in High Point as a teenager.
I want the White House to know I'm available, too. Is the job in Tahiti open?
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I want the White House to know I'm available, too. Is the job in Tahiti open? * Ambassador of bad will Doug
Good news Doug! I have just secure a Ambassdorship for you at no cost for you having to do fundraising efforts for Bush and the Republican party nor having to suckup to higher ups at DC cocktail parties or lying like heck how well we are doing in Iraq. Don't ask me how I pull this off, but pack your bags and spacesuit along with tons of DVD's Blockbuster rentals. You were chosen to be the first ambassdor of editorial journalism on our NASA Moon base in 2024. You do understand that you will be call strange names for this great adventure into space for the President. The Democrats will call you the first "Moonbat" of the Right once you get there.
Whatever do once you are at the Moon's Ambassorship suit. Do not invest in any NHL Hockey team that has a accepted entry into the leaque here.
ps....your second job for the Good Ole USA is to keep the Russians on Mars from declaring war on the rest of War of the Worlds Tom Cruise Cast for sorryest bunch of actors ever put together in a movie. Oh one other thing. You are struck there until the Russian shuttle space team fiqures out how to get another paid faring client on the return trip to earth.
Posted on December 5, 2006 8:40 PM
Tahiti'd be nice. But Fiji? Not so much.
Posted on December 6, 2006 6:27 AM
That would explain why our ambassador to Fiji is a career diplomat, not a political appointee.
Posted on December 6, 2006 8:32 AM
Lets just hope the IRS doesn't get this Phillips brother before his tenure's up.
Posted on December 6, 2006 1:08 PM