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Bono May Make Short List for World Bank
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| 03/06/05
Posted on 03/06/2005 9:28:08 AM PST by nypokerface
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To: nypokerface
The sad part is that Bono is NOT the least qualified person mentioned. (Carly Fiorina)
Peter McPherson is probably the most qualified of those mentioned.
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posted on
03/06/2005 10:08:58 AM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
(Living in the reddest county in East Michigan)
To: nypokerface
Maybe the World Bank is trying to get U2 to play a concert on their roof?
To: Imaverygooddriver
I`m just saying if he wants to do some good, he should tell his buddies to stop supporting these animals and promote that instead of constantly asking for cash to make these animals rich, because that`s all he`s doing. He`s not relieving ANY debt. He`s taking money from the United States and putting it straight into the pockets of these a-holes. Supporting terrorism, Communism, tyranny, warlords, that`s all you ever hear and get from Hollywood and the music biz, they are promoted relentlessly, yet the ones who hate Castro, the ones who know the horror of Communism are never given any platform whatsoever, they are completely shut out from the media. Gloria Estefan for example... Point is, from what I've read, Bono has been several cuts above the normal entertainer turned political activist. He's done the hard reading, hard debating, and does a lot more than just show up and flaunt his support. For that matter he has praised President Bush as walking the walk with regard to the international AIDS crisis.
I'm not saying that Bono is the ideal candidate. However, he's shown he's serious about the issues, not just another star trying to look good. He's shown an ability to at least listen to, work with, and even praise those on the right, while maintaining his credentials with the left.
Political beliefs aside, I think he is as qualified to be head of the World Bank as Ronald Reagan was to be governor of California in 1966: A man who made his name as an entertainer, but did his homework to become a legitimate politician. Bone would be an unconventional appointment, but I think the idea deserves more than to be laughed at. He is uniquely qualified to get the left and right talking to each other and Bush could do a lot worse.
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posted on
03/06/2005 10:23:35 AM PST
by
Celtjew Libertarian
(Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
To: nypokerface
The guy can't even count to four (in spanish anyway).
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posted on
03/06/2005 10:28:46 AM PST
by
fhayek
To: nypokerface
Wait a minute.... this is actually a GREAT IDEA.
Get a liberal yapping idiot that doesn't know the diff between exchange rates and interest rates.... can't even explain a spread sheet... who has been spewing verbal sewage about "forgiving" debt and bad mouthing the US about policy... then make him RESPONSIBLE
he's a typical lib celebrity who shoots off his/her mouth but when they have to produce something that isn't scripted or written for them and then face the consequences of their actions... well guess what....boo frickin hoo.... that's why celebs tend to screw up in their personal lives.
In other words, call his bluff. Like giving the Palestinians their own "country" let them "run" it.
It really looks good to be the boss, until you're the boss and have to "make it work".
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posted on
03/06/2005 10:34:10 AM PST
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: fhayek
The guy can't even count to four (in spanish anyway). uno, dos, tres, cuatorce
one, two, three, fourteen.... uh... OK.....
but if you look at it like the government does.... at least his "intentions" were good... so he's good to go.
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posted on
03/06/2005 10:36:36 AM PST
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: Dick Vomer
and at least he wears super-cool sunglasses
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posted on
03/06/2005 10:39:21 AM PST
by
Nate1984
To: jocon307
My questions would be:
3. Are you going to run this like a bank, which has to be profitable in order to survive and not be bailed out by taxpayers, or like a huge stockpile of funds to be "leant" to third-world countries? "Leant" meaning, of course, given with no hopes of ever being paid back.
4. Are you going to end up giving that money to dictators who use it to bolster their dictatorship, oppress and starve their people, and then whine about how greedy the free-market based countries are?
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posted on
03/06/2005 10:39:29 AM PST
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: Celtjew Libertarian
Let's see Bono explain how a revenue bond works. Or an interest-only strip. Or give a concise description of the term "tranche."
To: MoralSense
Hell with revenue bonds, let's start with the basics, payables vs. receivables, does he know the difference?? LMAO!
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posted on
03/06/2005 11:00:28 AM PST
by
rockabyebaby
(What goes around, comes around!)
To: Celtjew Libertarian
I'd agree.
Bono does deserve more than a kneejerk reaction to his possible selcteion for the position.
It doesn't mean he is the best candidate, nor that he even has a good chance to receive the position, but certainly he's not the male equivalent of Garrolo.
To: nypokerface
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posted on
03/06/2005 11:09:08 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Seeing as how this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world .........)
To: nypokerface
Aww darn, I was hoping they would send Carly Fiorina in there to wreck the place.
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posted on
03/06/2005 11:18:38 AM PST
by
Nick Danger
(The only way out is through)
To: ikka
Carly Fiorina, who destroyed Lucent and HP. Bono, aging hippy-dippy rock star. I get the feeling that the Bush administration doesn't like the World Bank very much... I have a feeling that they don't like the people who pay the bills.
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posted on
03/06/2005 11:36:43 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Republican - The political party for the living.)
To: nypokerface
![](http://www.usafricaonline.com/bono.oneil.ghana.jpg)
Let's make Bono the head of the World Bank and we can bring back Paul O'Neill to head the Treasury.
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posted on
03/06/2005 11:46:57 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Republican - The political party for the living.)
To: VictoryGal
A musician to head up the World Bank. Now I've seen everything.
Yeah, next thing you know an actor will become president
To: toadthesecond
Yeah, next thing you know an actor will become president Or a rapist..............
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posted on
03/06/2005 11:55:09 AM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I'm a man, I can change, if I want to...Maybe.)
To: drt1; OldFriend
"and Christie Todd Whitman"?Oh goody. Now she'll get ot funnel billions of other people's money into her beloved wacky environmental causes. If they want a nutcase to head up the World Bank, maybe they could recruit Insane McCain.At least that would get him out of the Senate.
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posted on
03/06/2005 12:06:52 PM PST
by
holyscroller
(A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him to the left)
To: dennisw
Maybe if he looses the shades
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posted on
03/06/2005 12:08:07 PM PST
by
dennisw
(Seeing as how this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world .........)
To: nypokerface; Happygal; aculeus; slane; Irish_Thatcherite; Colosis; SomeguyfromIreland; ...
God help us!
He'd become even more insufferable!
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posted on
03/06/2005 12:10:06 PM PST
by
Incorrigible
(immanentizing the eschaton)
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