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White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that President Bush 'will have a candidate to announce soon, allowing for an orderly transition that will have the World Bank refocused on its mission.' But a couple of the names being floated indicate that the administration has not learned its lessons from the Wolfowitz scandal.

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gspur
May 18, 2007, 12:27 p.m.
why can't the candidates just apply for the job? like they do in all other fields.
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SantaM
May 18, 2007, 12:27 p.m.
"Frist also falsely claimed in 2004 that HIV can be spread through tears and sweat."
I love that they point that out. They don't mention that he himself has an M.D. and offered his medical prognosis on Teri Schivo from the Senate floor after viewing a short home movie clip. She was aware and responsive he said. The autopsy later proved him entirely wrong.
Wrongly diagnosing someone he has never from met the Senate floor makes him BOTH an awful and unethical Senator AND doctor.
I have no reason to believe his attention to detail or morality would be any more attune at the World Bank.
Why is this administration dead set on giving people jobs that they are wholly unqualified for?
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Truzseeker
May 18, 2007, 12:37 p.m.
meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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SantaM
May 18, 2007, 12:45 p.m.
i'll credit you on this one. We are jumping the gun a little. I feel after 6 years of this joke we need to get infront of the wave...
You know what the President says...
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, ... uh... Can't be fooled again."
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Obaku
May 18, 2007, 12:53 p.m.
Like every word out of you isn't 'biased'?
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angelfire777
May 18, 2007, 2:24 p.m.
America plainly does not want Bush's appointees, past, present or future. For good reason.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS
May 18, 2007, 3:40 p.m.
Judging by the two front runners for the job one can form an opinion as to who, or which, is qualified for the job. How short your memory is. Blare, often called bush's puppet by the Brits and who knows nothing about finance and the idiot Dr. from the do nothing 109th congress who stands on the Senate floor and makes medical diagnoses from home movies and says one can catch HIV from tears, a thief, and a liar. Surely there is someone else better qualified for the job.
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kctrixter
May 19, 2007, 2:22 a.m.
luv, I agree until this is more than speculation it is less than a story.
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Obaku
May 18, 2007, 12:59 p.m.
Why, in the Name of all that is Holy, would Dick Lugar leave the Senate to go to the World Bank?
Now anyplace Bush wants to send Hank Paulson that isn't in the U.S. government, I am in favor - and the hotter the temperature there, the more in favor I am.
Bill Frist just got cleared from one investigation by the SEC, maybe he should lay low awile longer...
I just can't think what Tony Blair would want with the World Bank job, but if he does, let him.
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rightfromwrong
May 18, 2007, 12:59 p.m.
Great...Tony Blair. Another Bush crony and flunky
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h8ter027
May 18, 2007, 1:23 p.m.
They are all crooked starting with our leader. Big business, oil and the elite run this country so we're just going to get another one of their representatives. It's all a scam to get the American peoples money. Let a qualified person do the job who is looking out for America's best interest and not the interests and pocketbook of our friends.
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bonaroo
May 18, 2007, 1:40 p.m.
Poodle boy and the decider ride again. I can just see the British headlines if Blair is nominated. Also isn't the idea of the US seclecting the President of the bank to represent American interests? Or is Blair so adept at supporting American interests that no one will even notice that he is British.
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Petom1
May 18, 2007, 1:49 p.m.
Surprised he didn't push for Harriet Meyers.
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slate
May 18, 2007, 2:10 p.m.
I like Tony,,,, could he handle the job?
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pongping
May 18, 2007, 2:16 p.m.
Frist = they're joking, right?
Blair = run away as fast as you can from anything remotely related to G.W.
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angelfire777
May 18, 2007, 2:21 p.m.
Anyone looking for Osama? Offer him the World Bank - and see if she surfaces.
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angelfire777
May 18, 2007, 2:25 p.m.
Give Bill Gates the job! He could fund the poor all by himself.
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angelfire777
May 18, 2007, 2:30 p.m.
http://www.citizen.org/documents/050406Pandemic...
Who is undoing the damage Frist has already caused? Like we need him to head up the World Bank. Nuts.
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bubba2
May 18, 2007, 4:55 p.m.
Bush does NOT have total 'control' of the World Bank. There is a tradition of letting the U.S select a president, but that may change.
From the article "Wolfowitz Scandal Spotlights U.S. Reign at Bank" -- http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37742
On Tuesday, the anonymous World Bank whistleblower who initially helped leak documents about the hefty pay and promotion package Wolfowitz engineered for his girlfriend and fellow Bank official, Shaha Riza, spoke out in a letter published on the Internet and called for more a democratic process to select the World Bank president.
"As Bank staff, we watched incredulously with the rest of the world as this man demonstrated that he was accountable solely to the leader of a single country, a country which owns only 16 percent of the Bank's shares and whose policies show that it remains unaffected by views of its global neighbors," said the letter referring to the U.S. unilateral style at the Bank.
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quackpot
May 18, 2007, 5:38 p.m.
I am hoping that the Wolfowitz disgrace will give the World Bank Board some power to rise above the MUCK.
Are The Board Members looking to help the world poor or only looking to develop their individual pockets? This appointment will show.
Lets see if they can convinve the world that they are more than a bunch of scam artists that rip off the poor in favor of Bush's failed politics.
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DrWatson
May 18, 2007, 5:40 p.m.
I sure as hell prefer Blair over Frist. Who in the world wants another Bush crony??? We've got enough of them corrupting and milking the system.
At least Blair will add some credibility to this institution, which would be no mean feat as it's as corrupt as hell.
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mamasan
May 18, 2007, 8:57 p.m.
Cockroaches all of them.
They just scuttle form one creepy death ridden
job to the next.
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aceofspades1
May 18, 2007, 9:59 p.m.
Tony Soprano would work out just fine in this cabal of crooks
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Tcaros
May 18, 2007, 11:46 p.m.
Tony Blair? We need to impeach this band of rogues.