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Departing U.S. Ambassador To Panama Slams Trump’s ‘Jingoistic Chest-Beating’

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...tic-chest-beating_us_5aa3310ae4b086698a9de360

The former U.S. ambassador to Panama says he left his post this week because he could no longer abide the Trump administration’s “scapegoating of immigrants, jingoistic chest-beating and ... schoolyard bully’s attitude.”

John Feeley discussed his reasons for stepping down on Friday in a scathing op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Why I Could No Longer Serve This President.” Sections of his far more restrained resignation letter to the White House were leaked in January, shortly after Feeley told the administration of his plans.
 
i found this opinion piece from the former ambassador to be an even better explanations of his reasons for leaving his post to return as an "ordinary" American:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...4bfff693d2b_story.html?utm_term=.a13023a2ff0f

... I resigned because the traditional core values of the United States, as manifested in the president’s National Security Strategy and his foreign policies, have been warped and betrayed. I could no longer represent him personally and remain faithful to my beliefs about what makes America truly great.

The amateurish promulgation of a country-specific travel ban, the push to build a “big, beautiful wall” and to expel the “dreamers” beyond it, the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the belligerent renegotiating of the North American Free Trade Agreement and counterproductive steel and aluminum tariffs are all making the United States weaker and less prosperous. America is undoubtedly less welcome in the world today, as the president pursues a unilateral and isolationist path.

These policies are purportedly being pursued to make good on nativist campaign rhetoric that resonated with many legitimately aggrieved Americans. But I know many of these voters. They are not “deplorables.” They deserve better. They deserve enlightened and informed debate about the true nature of the globalized economy, automation, and the need for education and reimagined job-skills programs to keep us competitive. ...
and i do hope he is able to make good on this public commitment. i want to hear more from former Ambassador John D Freeley:
... I plan to speak to Americans and explore our nation’s fears and perceptions about the migration challenges we face. My goal is to create the conditions for respectful and nonconfrontational dialogue between supporters of the president’s immigration policy and the full panoply of migrants — from dreamers to day laborers, engineers to chambermaids, small business owners, artists and teachers.

We need to understand each other better. As someone who is fully and proudly American, and yet by life experience fully bilingual and bicultural, I will now do my best to help. Where the president seeks to build a wall, I seek to build a bridge. ...
 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...tic-chest-beating_us_5aa3310ae4b086698a9de360

The former U.S. ambassador to Panama says he left his post this week because he could no longer abide the Trump administration’s “scapegoating of immigrants, jingoistic chest-beating and ... schoolyard bully’s attitude.”

John Feeley discussed his reasons for stepping down on Friday in a scathing op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Why I Could No Longer Serve This President.” Sections of his far more restrained resignation letter to the White House were leaked in January, shortly after Feeley told the administration of his plans.

This is important because? :shrug:

(Edit: adding this response):

i found this opinion piece from the former ambassador to be an even better explanations of his reasons for leaving his post to return as an "ordinary" American:

...The amateurish promulgation of a country-specific travel ban, the push to build a “big, beautiful wall” and to expel the “dreamers” beyond it, the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the belligerent renegotiating of the North American Free Trade Agreement and counterproductive steel and aluminum tariffs are all making the United States weaker and less prosperous. America is undoubtedly less welcome in the world today, as the president pursues a unilateral and isolationist path.

These policies are purportedly being pursued to make good on nativist campaign rhetoric that resonated with many legitimately aggrieved Americans. But I know many of these voters. They are not “deplorables.” They deserve better. They deserve enlightened and informed debate about the true nature of the globalized economy, automation, and the need for education and reimagined job-skills programs to keep us competitive. ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...4bfff693d2b_story.html?utm_term=.a13023a2ff0f

He should have resigned a while ago if these were his concerns.
 
This is important because? :shrug:

he has some excellent things to say. none complimentary of the politics of our sitting president
former Ambassador Feeley is especially appalled by tRump's approach toward immigration and America's place in international politics
the 'deplorables' he writes about would do well to read what he has to say. at least that limited portion with the ability to do so
 
he has some excellent things to say. none complimentary of the politics of our sitting president
former Ambassador Feeley is especially appalled by tRump's approach toward immigration and America's place in international politics
the 'deplorables' he writes about would do well to read what he has to say. at least that limited portion with the ability to do so

Fine.

I am particularly pleased with President Trump's approach to immigration and content with his efforts regarding America's place in international politics...at least so far.

The fact that anyone (you?) still uses the term "deplorables" and yet expects to be listened to by those so labeled is whistling dixie.
 
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...tic-chest-beating_us_5aa3310ae4b086698a9de360

The former U.S. ambassador to Panama says he left his post this week because he could no longer abide the Trump administration’s “scapegoating of immigrants, jingoistic chest-beating and ... schoolyard bully’s attitude.”

John Feeley discussed his reasons for stepping down on Friday in a scathing op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Why I Could No Longer Serve This President.” Sections of his far more restrained resignation letter to the White House were leaked in January, shortly after Feeley told the administration of his plans.
No one else in the White House wants to work for him either, so the good ambassador should not feel alone!
 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...tic-chest-beating_us_5aa3310ae4b086698a9de360

The former U.S. ambassador to Panama says he left his post this week because he could no longer abide the Trump administration’s “scapegoating of immigrants, jingoistic chest-beating and ... schoolyard bully’s attitude.”

John Feeley discussed his reasons for stepping down on Friday in a scathing op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Why I Could No Longer Serve This President.” Sections of his far more restrained resignation letter to the White House were leaked in January, shortly after Feeley told the administration of his plans.

I continue to be amazed at the lack of professionalism from Obama appointees.
 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...tic-chest-beating_us_5aa3310ae4b086698a9de360

The former U.S. ambassador to Panama says he left his post this week because he could no longer abide the Trump administration’s “scapegoating of immigrants, jingoistic chest-beating and ... schoolyard bully’s attitude.”

John Feeley discussed his reasons for stepping down on Friday in a scathing op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Why I Could No Longer Serve This President.” Sections of his far more restrained resignation letter to the White House were leaked in January, shortly after Feeley told the administration of his plans.

He's a Obama appointee, so why is this news ?
 
No one else in the White House wants to work for him either, so the good ambassador should not feel alone!

Where the hell do you folks get this stuff from?

Wishful confirmation bias...got any other nuggets you want to toss this way? I forgot to get some MiracleGro, so some extra fertilizer would be welcomed... deep wide tall mounds of the stuff...maybe like tell us how its really the slenderman's economy that has shot off like a rocket since the election, Trump is just taking credit for it...

Or, or, North Korea is ready now to talk about denuking because of, yes, you guessed it, strategic patience is finaĺly paying big dividends, hahahahaha, you know things like that. Adds value, you get to laugh and improve your lawn all at the same time. :lamo
 
Where the hell do you folks get this stuff from?

Wishful confirmation bias...got any other nuggets you want to toss this way? I forgot to get some MiracleGro, so some extra fertilizer would be welcomed... deep wide tall mounds of the stuff...maybe like tell us how its really the slenderman's economy that has shot off like a rocket since the election, Trump is just taking credit for it...

Or, or, North Korea is ready now to talk about denuking because of, yes, you guessed it, strategic patience is finaĺly paying big dividends, hahahahaha, you know things like that. Adds value, you get to laugh and improve your lawn all at the same time. :lamo
The record number of fleeing appointees, and the record number of unfilled jobs. With those leaving often running straight to the media, telling disparaging stories. Five communication directors in a little over a year, is a pretty good indicator of what's occurring inside.

Also if you'd like to make the argument that walking into an very active & highly public federal investigation is conducive to desirable employment, be my guest.
 
The fact that you need excellent legal representation before accepting employment in the West Wing ought to raise the old red flag.......look before you leap!
 
The record number of fleeing appointees, and the record number of unfilled jobs. With those leaving often running straight to the media, telling disparaging stories. Five communication directors in a little over a year, is a pretty good indicator of what's occurring inside.

Also if you'd like to make the argument that walking into an very active & highly public federal investigation is conducive to desirable employment, be my guest.

You are kidding, right? Form over substance...oh, yeah, that IS superior in the leftist hierarchy I suppose.

We, most the rest of the country, are looking for results, for a god at the very least hetter economy, for a strong national defense, fair trade and the like. Ive listed his huge, already just in one year accomplishments on site numerous times along with my colleagues. Listing them for you if your method of assessment is so skewed as to be arguing what you are arguing above, is a waste of both our time.

Myself, nearly any way, ANY, of reducing the size of our government is right track. When people quit, or are fired, retire etc... I am enamored with the idea of eliminating those jobs, a no replacement policy. Down to a more reasonable non interfering sized government.

I would suggest this last point of yours is a very insidious, evil actually, method instituted by installing a special counsel and inviting him to start continuous open ended investigation, initially based on a delusion ( no, Rosenstein is not working with or for the right , no, Team Trump didnt collude ) and what started as farce is now criminal, treasonous...now is an egregious offense to the entire nation and does, indeed, chase good people away.

Shame on all of you who inspired and continue to applaud this affront to truth.
 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...tic-chest-beating_us_5aa3310ae4b086698a9de360

The former U.S. ambassador to Panama says he left his post this week because he could no longer abide the Trump administration’s “scapegoating of immigrants, jingoistic chest-beating and ... schoolyard bully’s attitude.”

John Feeley discussed his reasons for stepping down on Friday in a scathing op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Why I Could No Longer Serve This President.” Sections of his far more restrained resignation letter to the White House were leaked in January, shortly after Feeley told the administration of his plans.

Seems to be a fair observation from a knowledgeable insider.
 
You are kidding, right? Form over substance...oh, yeah, that IS superior in the leftist hierarchy I suppose.

We, most the rest of the country, are looking for results, for a god at the very least hetter economy, for a strong national defense, fair trade and the like. Ive listed his huge, already just in one year accomplishments on site numerous times along with my colleagues. Listing them for you if your method of assessment is so skewed as to be arguing what you are arguing above, is a waste of both our time.

Myself, nearly any way, ANY, of reducing the size of our government is right track. When people quit, or are fired, retire etc... I am enamored with the idea of eliminating those jobs, a no replacement policy. Down to a more reasonable non interfering sized government.
The bolded displays simplistic niavity, quite honestly. Like most things Trump, besides just your thoughts here.

I would suggest this last point of yours is a very insidious, evil actually, method instituted by installing a special counsel and inviting him to start continuous open ended investigation, initially based on a delusion ( no, Rosenstein is not working with or for the right , no, Team Trump didnt collude ) and what started as farce is now criminal, treasonous...now is an egregious offense to the entire nation and does, indeed, chase good people away.
But yet Trump brought this upon himself. Through Trump's actions, and Trump's alone, Mueller was appointed. It's Trump's baby.

Shame on all of you who inspired and continue to applaud this affront to truth.
I assure you I feel no shame at all. And it's interesting how you claim to regale in "truth", but want to cut it off and secret it away!

I applaud Mueller's investigation. Mueller's investigation has already reaped a bounty of rewards in rooting-out criminal activity in our government and Trump's Campaign. And it appears he has a long way to go. Mueller is doing what Trump promised, but has only turned back the clock on - draining the swamp!

You may want to consider why you are condolent of the crime & dirt Mueller is exorcizing from our government? Are you going to stand for country & Constitution? Or allow Flynn, Manafort, Page, Kushner, et al, to sell us out to the highest bidder? You've got choices to make, and history's watching. Be on the right side.
 
The bolded displays simplistic niavity, quite honestly. Like most things Trump, besides just your thoughts here.

But yet Trump brought this upon himself. Through Trump's actions, and Trump's alone, Mueller was appointed. It's Trump's baby.

I assure you I feel no shame at all. And it's interesting how you claim to regale in "truth", but want to cut it off and secret it away!

I applaud Mueller's investigation. Mueller's investigation has already reaped a bounty of rewards in rooting-out criminal activity in our government and Trump's Campaign. And it appears he has a long way to go. Mueller is doing what Trump promised, but has only turned back the clock on - draining the swamp!

You may want to consider why you are condolent of the crime & dirt Mueller is exorcizing from our government? Are you going to stand for country & Constitution? Or allow Flynn, Manafort, Page, Kushner, et al, to sell us out to the highest bidder? You've got choices to make, and history's watching. Be on the right side.

And so that we may be clear on the point, how is reducing federal employment by attrition untenable or, as you forgivably misspelled it, naive?

It not only can be done, it should and must be done. The power of distant bureaucrats to negatively affect almost every single aspect of our lives, the sheer amount of rules, laws and regulations that need more and more of the non productive to enforce all these hinderance provoking dictums, decrees and fiats ...on the productive is simply unconscionable.

Your side has TDS...that you are unwilling to see the good and expect to be not only heard but you expect to be regarded with credibility. Pfffft. Obama administration's 8 v Trump's 1 year is hands down a Trump win...If the Koreas were an analogy, Obama, fittingly, would be an anemic North and Trump would be the bustling, lively energetic South Korea.

The only things Trump did to bring the mule on was beat Hillary and appoint the one guy, very nice and honorable man, who cannot run a tight DOJ ship, cannot weed out all the corruption, the political weaponizing of that department, one of many perverted by Obama....the appointment of Rosenstein was the egregious error...who knew people that high up, fellow Americans, would subvert the system in such a degrading manner? They will pay, however, messages need be sent.

I totally take you at your word on this one thing, you feel no shame...leftists arent for America, they want to destroy it, debauch it, bring it down.

Where do I want to shut truth down, hide it? If you mean ending an investigation that in two years has resulted in only process convictions and prior infractions none having the slightest bit to do with Trump doing ANYTHING wrong, especialy in the area of supposed inquiry. There is nothing there and where there is collusion with already produced evidence of payoffs, kickbacks, influence peddling, money laundering, national security and FOIA breaches, perjury, illegal unmaskings, illegal surveillences, paying foreign agents going back to the colluding with top Russian operatives...that was all, ALL, Hillary and slendermans doing.

And that just the tip of a treason darkened iceberg. I would say black iceberg but know the word black will have your lefty buddies lighting their hair on fire...so be it. I can smell the sulfur from here.

If the mule would actually go after some of the real culpits, but he cant, he is amongst their numbers. Uranium One. Besides, he should have recused himself and have appiinted an upright person put in his place. Investigate away...but its been two years, NOT A SINGLE THING, NONE, has been produced in evidence of Team Trump collusion, which isnt even a crime, yano?

Sell us out to the highest bidder? that ship already sailed when Hillary, Holder and Obama sold 20% control over our national security asset, uranium, to our enemy, Russia. $500k Bill pocketed, the faux Clinton Foundation got another $145 milion from the Russian oligarchs... but doesnt concern you, if it isnt Trump you literally cannot see it.

I have no problem with finding corruption wherever evidence points. If anybody is breaking the national laws, making us less secure, undermining the government, get em...but you cannot truthfully make the same pledge.
 
This is important because? :shrug:

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He should have resigned a while ago if these were his concerns.

Greetings, Captain Adverse. :2wave:

:agree: It just doesn't seem honorable or respectful for someone to write a polite letter of resignation to a boss, then write a second scathing and angry editorial letter about how he feels about Trump in a major newspaper like The Washington Post for the world to read!

Since he obviously doesn't agree with Trump's overall objectives, which shouldn't surprise anyone since he was appointed by Obama, it's probably best that he decided to resign rather than be constantly upset about the things that Trump is doing that he doesn't agree with.
 
Greetings, Captain Adverse. :2wave:

:agree: It just doesn't seem honorable or respectful for someone to write a polite letter of resignation to a boss, then write a second scathing and angry editorial letter about how he feels about Trump in a major newspaper like The Washington Post for the world to read!

Since he obviously doesn't agree with Trump's overall objectives, which shouldn't surprise anyone since he was appointed by Obama, it's probably best that he decided to resign rather than be constantly upset about the things that Trump is doing that he doesn't agree with
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former Ambassador Freeley agrees that he should no longer serve a president, whose agenda he is unable to advocate
and that is exactly what he did: resigned from the foreign service. quit his ambassadorship

and now that he is an "ordinary" citizen with a lot of expertise about international relations, he is free to share with us why tRump's policies are so ****ed up
in that way, he is still fulfilling a public service
and that is what makes his NY Times opinion piece such an intriguing read
at least for those who are willing to be exposed to an alternative perspective
 
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Hailing from down here in Panama, this is the first I have heard of this idiot.

Glad to hear he is on his way out with this Sally Yates light immitation of his. Dont let the canal lock door hit your ace on the way out, Ambassador. Good tiddance.
 
He is exceptionally well spoken. Sad to lose good people like this.

in an odd way, maybe it is for the best

his personal take was hidden from us while serving as ambassador to panama. now that he is home and no longer obligated to present the president's position on international affairs, Freely has a newfound posium from which to speak to a public that did not know of him before
i hope to hear a lot more from him between now and 2020
 
in an odd way, maybe it is for the best

his personal take was hidden from us while serving as ambassador to panama. now that he is home and no longer obligated to present the president's position on international affairs, Freely has a newfound posium from which to speak to a public that did not know of him before
i hope to hear a lot more from him between now and 2020

He will be showcased on MSNBC & CNN in the near future!
 
Trumpy went to Pennsylvania to support one of his cronies and instead talked for a whopping 70 minutes about himself.
 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...tic-chest-beating_us_5aa3310ae4b086698a9de360

The former U.S. ambassador to Panama says he left his post this week because he could no longer abide the Trump administration’s “scapegoating of immigrants, jingoistic chest-beating and ... schoolyard bully’s attitude.”

John Feeley discussed his reasons for stepping down on Friday in a scathing op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Why I Could No Longer Serve This President.” Sections of his far more restrained resignation letter to the White House were leaked in January, shortly after Feeley told the administration of his plans.

Democrat political appointee says can't stand working for Republican. In other news the sun rose in the east and the moon waxes and wanes...
 
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