A Bushie All The Way

I very much appreciate how easy it is to pick out a Bush appointee just from the context of his speech; kind of like a white guy on a basketball team. Robert Zoellick, Bush’s choice to replace Paul Wolfowitz as the venerable president of the ‘World Bank’, spoke yesterday about the bank needn’t focus so much on the poorest countries in the world because “70 percent of the world’s poor live in countries that are prospering over all.” Kind of like, ummm, let me think, oh yeah… OUR country! The fact that he bears an eerily striking resemblance to John Bolton doesn’t help matters either. Then, of course, there is the mandatory derogatory reference to the old whipping boys, the commies! “He does not want to focus too much energy on long documents, regarding them as Soviet-style bureaucratic planning.” Yes, long documents might require that they would actually have to read them; only neocon logic would be able to tie long documents and communism together. However, I suppose considering what huge fans the neocons are of the various American long documents (e.g. Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. etc.) it kind of makes sense, now doesn’t it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/world/11worldbank.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin