General Discussion

Cool to speculate about, but unlike the Ukrainian situation at the time Zelensky took office, we have plenty of Democratic talent who has actually been training for the job, and I frankly doubt that Colbert wants to be doing anything other than what he is doing now.

Besides, who would be willing to take THAT kind of a pay cut? It's easy to say it's no big deal, but ten years ago, I was casually asked by someone at the DNC if I would be interested in being US Ambassador to Germany under President Hillary, and I said it sounded like one very cool gig, but the pay cut would be drastic. A friend of mine who was once Canada's ambassador to the USA (and then their Ambassador to France) said the pay sucked, but the perks were amazing. He got to live in a renovated urban 18th century castle in the heart of Paris on the Faubourg St. Honoré. Now THOSE were some digs!! Raymond told me that Canada was able to pick it up for a song at the end of World War II, and they didn't have to asked twice. I'm sure the US Embassy Residence in Berlin is pretty fabulous, too, but it's a choice I never got to agonize over. Probably just as well. I'm not always as diplomatic as I should be.