US President Barack Obama has named Democratic fundraiser Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis as his country’s ambassador to Hungary, the White House announced on Friday.
Sources in Washington told Népszabadság that they were not aware that the candidate has any connections to Hungary.
Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis is the chairwoman of Sacramento company AKT Development Corp., and is well-known for her charity work and for promoting inter-faith relations.
She backed Obama’s rival Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions as head of Greek-Americans for Clinton, but also contributed to Obama’s campaign.
The appointment of Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis continues Washington’s 15-year tradition of politically appointed ambassadors to Hungary, Népszabadság observes. The 1.3 million strong Greek-American community is about the same size as the Hungarian-American, the newspaper adds.
Was George Papadapolis busy?
Makes as much sense as giving Obama a Nobel peace prize !
Ricsi, you are just pissed because they did not give the Nobel Peace Prize to Vona for promoting relations with the Roma minority in Hungary.
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Otherwise it is nice the US found someone who has a name that is harder to spell/remember than many Hungarian names. How long time did it not take foreign media to learn Gujzcarn, or whatever his name was.
A fundraiser, seriously? US corruption borders on that of Hungary’s…
“Well Greece – that’s like, quite near Hungary on the map right? Do they speak Grecian there as well?”
Hi TDS,
Knowing a little about how little Americans know, I appreciate the sarcasm and humor of your comment.
I hate to be picayune, but her compound last name sounds like a joke badly told, complete with dropped punchline. It’s looks and sounds absurd, and makes me want to dismiss her before I know anything about her. She needs to drop one of those compound monikers, but I doubt she will.
Noble prize is scam..I question the value of this prize. In recent decades, so many of the choices have been bizarre and wrong Henry Kissinger, Le Doc Tho, Yasser Arafat. Warmakers getting peace prizes. Beautiful.
Any thinking person should be an environmentalist, and to try to make some of their choices accordingly. Which does not mean that you can’t take a critical eye to all or some of the Global Warming Theory. (There’s observed Global Warming on Mars. What’s the cause of that?)
And which does not mean you accept as a leader a man who does not personally live an environmentally ethical life. He’s the environmental equivalent of Bono, who preaches (government-financed) debt relief in Africa while not paying income tax in Ireland.
(Bono takes advantage of Irish law that exempts artists’ income from the income tax. When the Irish government sought to tax one of his companies, he moved the company to the Netherlands.
Gore preaches environmentalism, and burns energy on a manic scale, Bono seeks huge revenue flows for Africa, but makes damned sure that he doesn’t pay into it.
I could see these two meeting in some private-jet airport, and winking at one another. They’ve world champion scammers, and the living is very good.