Zoellick to replace Wolfowitz at World Bank.
By on May 29th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Zoellick to replace Wolfowitz at World Bank.
AP reports:
President Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a one-time U.S. trade representative and former No. 2 official at the State Department, to lead the World Bank, a senior administration official said Tuesday.
Bush will announce his decision on Wednesday.
Zoellick, who resigned from the Bush administration last June feeling “marginalized” and “subordinate,” is now an executive at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Another lackey…nice.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:44 pmwho?
May 29th, 2007 at 4:44 pmThe President should have re-submitted Wolfowitz again and again until our so called allies got the message not to mess with us over some trivial manager issue.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:45 pmThis guy is one of the signers of the PNAC document!!!
May 29th, 2007 at 4:45 pmMore friends in more high places.
Can anyone tell me if this is a senate-confirmed nomination thing or a dictator-confirmed nomination thing?
May 29th, 2007 at 4:47 pmIt’s appropriate the Wolfie be replaced by number 2.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:47 pmIs he Bolton’s clone or something? Sure looks like one.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:47 pmThis guy is one of the signers of the PNAC document!!!
Comment by Crump’s Brother — May 29, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
Well, is that a surprise….NOT! Time goes so damn slow when waiting for a regime change.
Does Robert Zoellick have to be confirmed by the Senate?
May 29th, 2007 at 4:49 pmAnd what makes you think anything will change in 2009?
May 29th, 2007 at 4:53 pmThe President should have re-submitted Wolfowitz again and again until our so called allies got the message not to mess with us over some trivial manager issue.
Comment by MAF54 — May 29, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
Yeah, because allies should be forced to do our bidding. The commander guy decider knows all.
Get a grip pedophile lover.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pmOH NO!!!! :O
The essays by Zoellick and Rice in the January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs show just how lucky the Bush regime was that 9/11 happened. http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/
Europe – please protest this appointment. Same song, second verse!
May 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pmThis guy is one of the signers of the PNAC document!!!
Comment by Crump’s Brother
Gee, what a surprise.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:56 pm#3 Yeah…no reason for chimpy to start nominating someone to a position with any credibility or competency at this late juncture.
chimpy = FAILED LEADERSHIP
May 29th, 2007 at 4:56 pmW choose someone with international experience and tunnel vision:
May 29th, 2007 at 4:57 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zoellick
19 1/2 more months of disaster in world relations.
And what makes you think anything will change in 2009?
Comment by MAF54
Your stupidity certainly won’t change.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:57 pmMAF54,
By “us”, I assume you mean the “retards”?
Love,
May 29th, 2007 at 5:02 pmUnderaged boy
Ok. I’d love to chat with you guys, but I’ve got to go. Sweet, sweet percocet and lovely dreams await…
May 29th, 2007 at 5:04 pmThis guy quit the Chimpy regime because he felt marginalized and subordinate.
He’s no Chimpy-lover. I hope he does a good job, and doesn’t have a wife and a girlfriend.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:04 pmWhy would anybody use MAF54 as a nickname.
That’s Mark Foley’s nickname. Foley is a pervert.
MAF54 must be a pervert like Foley.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:08 pmWhen I’m not trolling on progressive blogs, spewing Repuke talking point lies…
…I’m out buggering little boys.
I represent typical Repuke moral values.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:09 pmI have to agree that nothing will change in 2009. No difference between Dems and Repukes. Even if a different person was to get the Preziduncy in 2009, the rest of the government will still be the same.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:12 pmI wonder if Zoellick is CORRUPT too?
May 29th, 2007 at 5:44 pmI wonder if Zoellick is CORRUPT too?
Comment by Oversight is a Bitch. — May 29, 2007
Just do the W associate test – yeilds – he can’t cut the Congressional mustard. Ask Patrick1.
May 29th, 2007 at 6:43 pmZoellick is a philosophical neo-con clone of Paul Wolfowitz. He will be better than Wolfowitz, but that is not praise. It is like saying that lung cancer is better than cancer of the liver.
May 29th, 2007 at 7:09 pm#7 Is he Bolton’s clone or something? Sure looks like one.
Comment by Klerck — May 29, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
Just so Klerck. Zoellick is a younger clone of the Bolton model. You notice this one’s mustache has not filled out or turned white. This is a sign that the clone is reaching the end of its planned obsolence period. When that time comes, the mustache will fall off and the clone will expire.
May 29th, 2007 at 7:10 pmtesting
May 29th, 2007 at 7:27 pmI guess it’s OK to be marginalized and subordinated if they pay you enough…
May 29th, 2007 at 8:22 pmSee Bush appoints another incompetent crony who wants to rip off the World Bank like Wolfowitz did.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:10 pmThis guy is one of the signers of the PNAC document!!!
Goldman Sachs is really corrupt. Rep. John Corzine, recent suspicious car accident was one of the head honchos when they were being investigated.
I believe that Dov Zakheim, one of the master minds of 911, duel israeli citizenship was Comptroller at the Pentagon on 911 and “lost” 2 Trillion Dollars.
May 30th, 2007 at 12:02 amWho says the Bush Administration is not into recycling?
Another PNACer in the same job. Please, please, find a way to stop this gene pool.
May 30th, 2007 at 12:41 am“This guy is one of the signers of the PNAC document!!!”
After all that’s gone down, you would have thought Bush would be at least trying to appear to be free of the neocons.
I’m dumbfounded by this appointment. The PNAC connection makes it big news. I wonder if it will be taken up by the MSM?
Is Bush thumbing his nose at us?
Is he saying that Wolfowitz shouldn’t have been sacked?
Or is he a puppet of the PNACers?
May 30th, 2007 at 4:32 amI believe that Dov Zakheim, one of the master minds of 911, duel israeli citizenship was Comptroller at the Pentagon on 911 and “lost†2 Trillion Dollars.
Comment by irina — May 30, 2007 @ 12:02 am.
I believe if you stop reading anti-semetic conspiracy theory bullshit and instead read his actual biography, you’ll find he was the man in charge of tracking down that missing money which he accomplished within five years to a 99.9% degree.
I believe that means he didn’t “lose” 2 trillion dollars, he found it.
I believe that leaves you pointing to him as a mastermind of 9/11 for no other reason than he’s Jewish.
I believe that when such pathetic, easily refuted, nonsensical and Jew-based conspiracy theory bullshit passes unchallenged on TP it make this place no better than LGF.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:54 am“feeling “marginalized†and “subordinate,â€
Well, I guess that Bush gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse. I don’t blame the guy for taking the job. It’s a cushy job. Hang around for a couple of years raping and pillaging the bank and then when you are caught with your pants down, they will give you a huge bonus to go away. Sounds like a sweet deal to me.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:35 amYou know what I like about this?
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Business/Article.aspx?id=477675
After Zoellick’s upcoming nomination was revealed by the Bush administration, the World Bank’s board issued a statement outlining the “essential†qualities for the organisation’s next president.
The board said the next bank chief should have “a proven track record of leadership,†â€experience managing large, international organisations,†â€a firm commitment to development,†â€a commitment to and appreciation for multilateral cooperation, and political objectivity and independence.â€
Nice, warm reception by the World Bank eh?
May 30th, 2007 at 12:24 pmI’m happy Bush selected another PNAC intellectual to replace Wolfowitz. The World Bank is an important organ to help promote American and Western values throughout the world and we should make sure that anyone who we put in charge of the World Bank already understands the value of this.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:34 pmWhy is it that when the rich get together to do something about the poor its called charity. But, when the poor get together to do something about the rich its called a riot.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:55 amRowland Driskell
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Rowland when the poor usually get together to do something about the rich is it because they demanding something of them or is it because they are behaving in a charitable and benevolent manner towards them?
I think you’ll find that when Wolfowitz was cutting off funding to certain African countries it was because that money was going to finance corruption. The money would have been eaten up by corrupt governments long before it would have a chance to reach the people.
May 31st, 2007 at 3:14 pm