By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The diplomatic guessing game that comes with every president's second term is sweeping swank salons from Washington to Hollywood, as big-time Obama supporters gossip about who is expected to get the coveted titles of Mister Ambassador or Madam Ambassador.
"He has a business that requires his presence and contracts that go well into the next three years, so this was never even the remotest possibility," his spokesman, Marc Szafran, told the Hollywood newspaper.
