Drought on Bono Editorials Ends
It has been almost three weeks since the L.A. Times ran an editorial about U2 singer Bono. This untenable situation ended today with this editorial. My favorite line:
And Bono, as anyone who has dealt with him personally knows, understands the issues. We still think he would have been a sound choice to lead the World Bank.
Translation: we met Bono! Isn’t that cool?!
But the United States should rethink its traditional claim to the job and look to some formidable candidates from the developing world, including former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and former Brazilian President Henrique Cardoso. They are highly regarded by the rich nations that contribute to the bank and would have more credibility in pushing reforms on recalcitrant developing nations than any U.S. official — even if they aren’t Bono.
Whoever wrote this editorial needs a sideline writing for the Onion. You just can’t make this stuff up.
[…] a chief architect of one of the most unpopular wars in our history” – I bet he doesn’t even know the words to “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” T […]
Patterico's Pontifications » Wolfowitz (Not Bono) Will Head World Bank (0c6a63) — 3/17/2005 @ 6:46 amSeems to me anybody with the magic checkbook can push reforms as well as the next guy. The real question is will they?
At least they didn’t name Yeltsin.
Kevin Murphy (6a7945) — 3/15/2005 @ 7:44 amI agree you should read what Bill Clinton said about him during the Davos Forum on his blog
richard johnson (eaace8) — 3/15/2005 @ 9:49 amA resolution to Estrich-Kinsley Debate
BoiFromTroy (aab581) — 3/15/2005 @ 11:14 amAfter reading Petterico’s observation that Bono has reappeared in the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times, I believe I have come up with a suggestion to ease the tensions in the liberal family fued between Times Editor Michael Kinsley…
Clinton’s blog? I’ve looked at it before and still can’t figure it out. Not that I need to.
Coincidentally, I picked up a copy of Time Mag. lying around at a health club and found that some U.N. operative named Jeffery Sacks [?] was featured as having a solution to world poverty. He didn’t, but there was Bono also pictured calling Sacks “my professor”. Or was it Susan Estrich I saw? I don’t want to meet any of them.
J. Peden (ffccb8) — 3/15/2005 @ 4:55 pmTHE FAILURE of development policy —
PRESTOPUNDIT (84db7a) — 3/28/2005 @ 10:32 pmTucker Hughes reviews William Easterly’s The Elusive Quest for Growth. Quotable: The most predominant topic in this portion of the book is the role of the people in government…
[…] What do you want to bet that the person who wrote this is the same nincompoop who repeatedly pushed for Bono to be the head of the World Bank? […]
Patterico’s Pontifications » Well, He *Was* Good At Cover-Ups . . . (421107) — 5/30/2006 @ 6:58 pmI disagree
Derek (c43016) — 9/2/2008 @ 4:26 amCan you give more info?