Islamofacists
 

I never really noticed it before, but Louis F. looks an awful lot like MC Hammer.

2 Legit 2 Quit.

revisionist history
 

Now i don't think this sock is who i thought this sock was.

Bono, crooning his way to third world debt
 

Wolfie has a better shot.

revisionist history
 

Absolutely. The whole going after Clinton thing had nothing to do with sex, it was that they hated him and it was an excellent excuse.

revisionist history
 

I know a number of conservatives who just felt protective for Hillary and Chelsea and felt that the impeachment was important to vindicate hil/chel's understandable rage.

revisionist history
 

penske was the leader of "felt protective for Hillary," right?

through the looking glass
 

Not according to Boeing: "The company said she did not report directly to him, and that the relationship was consensual and had no effect on the conduct of Boeing's business. But it said the relationship violated Boeing's code of conduct. "

CNN

revisionist history
 

This is ... just bizzare. How is this supposed to work? It is important that the vindication of a cheated-on woman should come through ... public procedings that have nothing to do with the cause of her "understandable rage" and disrupt the governance of the dominant nation on the planet?

God HELP us all if my aunt C--- every finds out about my uncle and the three teenage asian strippers last time he traveled on business, or it'll be "important" to nuke someone to "vindicate her understandable rage."

red red whine
 

Interesting idea. Am I the only who thinks I college degree might be a prerequisite for such a position? Or is it enough to parrot the marxist party line that US should forgive third world debt qualification enough? Hell, even this ltl/fb person is qualified then.

It is truly an analysis that only a true leftwing intelligentsia member could advocate. Nominate a guy who can't even count to four in Spanish to head a “World” bank.

On the other hand, given that these twobit socialist celebrities shoot off their pampered pieholes with reckless abandon it might be nice to see him get the job and then have to produce, in the real world, put up or shut up you drunken Irish hack, without a script or a make-up man or a lipsynch producer to do your dirty work.

I wonder if any of these celebrileftists could step up to the plate and face the consequences of their baseless ideological ravings?

I’m sure it would be much as the exercise in giving the Palis their own "country" and letting them "run" it into the ground will be.

Call his bluff, when he destroys the WB, its one less international organization we have to support. Maybe that’s Bush’s plan. Genius!

revisionist history
 

Ummm, it was a joke. conservatives don't like Hillary either, maybe more so.

through the looking glass
 

You're right. I extrapolated when I should have instrapolated.

But, my main point remains, I think. He had power over her. Thus, any relationship is deemed to be coercive.

through the looking glass
 

It may be significant that this is the guy who was brought in to clean things up after all the indictments and stuff. who probably oversaw putting in the new code of conduct etc. What a moron.

Not that I think this is a firing offense.

red red whine
 

By tradition, the head of the World Bank is American. The Europeans may be worried that the U.S. is not taking seriously the problem of finding someone for the job,* and thus may be tossing Bono's name out there to spur the U.S. to get its shit together.

Apropos of which, consider this from Sebastian Mallaby's column in the WaPo today:

• In 1986 the Reagan administration chose a new World Bank president. The Reaganites decided quickly not to reappoint the incumbent, but they were fresh out of ideas when it came to finding a replacement. They viewed anybody who knew anything about the "socialistic" World Bank as automatically suspect, which had an awkward narrowing effect on the potential field of candidates.
  
  After a long silence from the Reagan team, there were rumors that the bank's European shareholders might name someone, challenging the tradition by which the United States selects the institution's president. This caught the Reagan administration's attention: Even though it was indifferent to the World Bank, it cared a lot about White House prerogatives. So the administration called a retired congressman from New York and demanded permission to put his name forward.
  
  The former congressman was Barber Conable, and he was not at all excited. He resented distractions from his retirement hobbies; he knew nothing about the World Bank or its mission. Conable refused to let his name go forward until he was assured that this was a mere tactical ploy, designed to show Europe that the United States was not bereft of candidates. Two weeks later Treasury Secretary James Baker returned to Conable with unhappy news. "Barber," he said, "I'm sorry to tell you that you're the only guy we can agree on."
  
  This might be funny if it were not so serious. Because he was unprepared for the challenge, Conable spent an unsuccessful five years at the World Bank, and the institution suffered. After attempting a management reorganization that plunged the bank into chaos, Conable had the grace to admit the truth. "The average congressman doesn't understand the World Bank," he observed, "and I was the average congressman."

* In re this, consider this from Mallaby's column:

• Last week the rumor mill spat out two extraordinary names: Paul Wolfowitz and Carly Fiorina.
  
  This looks like a sign of desperation. Wolfowitz has most of what it takes to lead the World Bank. He is a persuasive communicator; he has experience in public-sector management; and he knows something about developing countries, having served as ambassador to Indonesia. But his association with the Iraq war makes him, unfairly but undeniably, anathema to most World Bank shareholders. The trial balloon soon popped: Wolfowitz declared that he would be staying at the Pentagon.
  
  What of Fiorina? A straw poll of pro-Bush economists last week, including one who held a senior White House position, yielded a unanimous verdict: The idea is preposterous. Fiorina was fired from the top job at Hewlett-Packard because she proved incapable of running a large organization. How could the Bush administration, which claims to respect the judgments of the marketplace, entrust her with the formidable challenge of running the bank's 10,000-strong bureaucracy?

Seems to me Fiorina is probably just doing a good job of getting her name out there.

through the looking glass
 

He was banging secretaries two at a time. Project managers couldn't get typing done.

through the looking glass
 

Since there are no feminists of that particular ilk here right now, it's nice of you to make sure their viewpoint is represented here, but since no one at Boeing appears to have offered that justification, I'm not sure why else you'd bother.