Posts tagged barack obama
The selection of a successor to Robert Zoellick as president of the World Bank was supposed to initiate a new era of open meritocratic competition, breaking the traditional hold that the United States has had on the job. Indeed, Zoellick’s own appointment was widely regarded as ‘illegitimate’ from that perspective. But US President Barack Obama has let the world down even more distressingly with his nomination of Jim Yong Kim for the post.
CHEERS! US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle enjoy a Guinness in Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, County Offaly, the home village of his grandfather’s grandfather.
(Photograph by Reuters.)
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