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      <![CDATA[#4<br />
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      <![CDATA[Being an ambassador mostly just involves throwing parties and making people feel important. Being a high level donor is pretty good experience for that.
        
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      <![CDATA[It used to only cost between $100,000 and $200,000. Of course, back then, houses cost that much, instead of the current $500,000 to $1 million house prices we see.
        
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      <![CDATA[@7, not sure that this is necessarily true. Only 30% of ambassadorships go to political ($$$) appointees.
        
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      <![CDATA[When I was a little girl, I wanted to be an ambassador (I was a strange child). Turns out that was never a possibility for someone like me (eg working class).
        
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      <![CDATA[Yet all of her donations <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/us/politics/well-trod-path-political-donor-to-ambassador.html?hp&amp;_r=0&quot;" rel="nofollow">couldn't get</a> Anna Wintour the Court of St. James.
        
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      <![CDATA[Nothing new: you can thank our seventh president, Andrew Jackson, for establishing the Spoils System.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm going to start a Kickstarter so I get get posted to Europe.<br />
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