Keep your friends close......

..... and your enemies closer. In the same way that The Chosen One chose his primary Democratic rival for the presidency, Hilary Clinton, to be his Secretary of State, he has decided to remove yet another obstacle from his re-election bid in 2012 by naming Utah governor John Huntsman to be the new ambassador to China. However, unlike other political appointments, Gov. Huntsman is very qualified to be the ambassador, having served in Taiwan as a LDS missionary and speaking the language, having already served as the ambassador to Singapore and also having performed trade missions in China. Still, after hearing rumors of how much The Chosen One feared running against a "moderate" as Gov. Huntsman for president in 2012, it seems rather "convienent" that he would more or less remove Gov. Huntsman from the playing field in 2012. Can we expect that he will tap Gov. Romney to clean up the auto industry in the near future?