This is a joke, right?
Someone please tell me there's a real, genuine financial wizard somewhere in the nominating pipeline to run the world bank.
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So, let's compare.
Experience in Running a Bank
Bono-No
Wolfowitz-No
Bono DOES have experience running a rock group that probably collects more money than most banks. Wolfie has experience running the Pentagon, the black hole into which the American taxpayers throw money.
(I'm shortening it to Wolfie just because I don't want to be here typing out his name all daggone day.)
Degree in Finance or Similar Field
Bono-No
Wolfie-No
Bono writes some good songs, though, and imagine the television ads. Wow! They'd make those i-pod commericals look sick. Wolfie knows how to blow stuff up.
Compassion
Bono-Yes
Wolfie-No
Bono's got a good record of helping the downtrodden and impoverished. Wolfie has a long record of grossing us out. The comb-licking episode is permanently scarred into my brain. He's not on record as showing any sort of compassionate behavior.
Connections
Bono-Yes
Wolfie-Yes
Everyone knows who Bono is and a lot of folks like him. Wolfie has Dubya, and like Lola in the song, what Dubya wants, Dubya gets.
Maybe it's part of a new deficit reduction scheme. Plunder the world bank! Yee haw!
(I loved The Daily Show's sendup of the whole "they're both big" thing. Made me laugh until I realized he was serious, then I cried.)