Diss'n David or Diss'n Canada?
Some Canadians are highly incensed, and it concerns our cousin, David Jacobson*, who is our new ambassador designate to Canada. It is not that Canadians don't want David. His credentials are impeccable. His intelligence is nearly without peer in our family. (I have to be vague about that part so as not to insult our many other brilliant cousins). He is well informed and socially graceful. He must also be a kind of expert in things Canadian, given the Palin criterion, since he spent 30 years in Chicago where he could almost see Canada across a Great Lake.
The Canadians are upset not because of Obama's nomination of this flawless instrument of diplomacy, but because he did not attract any visible opposition to his appointment. Not one Republican showed up at his confirmation hearing to grill him. And the truth be told, only one Democrat showed up. The Canadians reason that he is either a truly perfect person or that Republicans just don't really care about Canada and will let Obama have his way if it's "only Canada."
Some Canadian pundits snidely opine (which is what pundits do), but with typical Canadian modesty and self-deprecation, that David must have done something truly terrible to warrant being banished to Ottawa. I want to assure my Canadian friends that David and his whole family are thrilled and honored for him to be ambassador to our largest trading partner. I look forward to great things in our mutual relationship. Eh.
*Okay, full disclosure: He is married to my wife's cousin.
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