Clean sweep at State

This should go a long way towards repairing our foreign relations. President-elect Obama notified all Bush appointed ambassadors that they're going to be out of a job come Jan. 20th. I suppose it's possible that some of them might have been good people who were merely hamstrung by directives from the White House but on a symbolic level, I can't think of a better way for Obama to signal that our foreign policy is about to undergo a complete turnaround.

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