Obama's Appointees

[I35]

What do the majority of them have in common?

They Plead the 5th.

 

[AustinBat]

Some of them are then appointed to the Supreme Court.

 

[ShinerTX]

Culture of corruption. It's the Chicago way.

 

[DFWAg]

Many of them have primarily academic backgrounds that make them poor fits for overseeing massive bureaucracies. Steven Chu for Energy Secretary? The latest, Jim Yong Kim at the World Bank is another head-scratcher. I suppose Obama himself is an academic so he feels comfortable with this background.

My two cents.

 

[Perham1]

A majority of them? Hardly.

Why is Jim Kim such a head scrather? Because he's not a banker?

 

[DFWAg]

The primary role of the World Bank is reducing poverty and tackling health and development issues by lending money to spur development of national structures and institutions.

I don't think you need a banker for the job. I do think you need someone that is familiar with negotiating with foreign governments, combating corruption, and making sure money is spent developing national infrastructure and government programs that in turn address the issues of poverty, malnutrition, disease, etc.

Mr. Kim has very admirable and commendable background but it is not a great fit with the skills needed to tackle the wide variety of issues that the World Bank President is expected to tackle.

That is why I think it is an odd choice.

 

[DFWAg]

And I retract my majority statement. That is not accurate.

 

[gecko]

Bad managers tend to surround themselves with other bad managers. Things tend to rot from the top.

 

[ShinerTX]

Culture of Corruption

Michelle Malkin does as good a job as anyone of illustrating the corrupt collection of people in high places in the Obama White House. Tim Geitner, anyone?

 

[RomaVicta]

 

[ShinerTX]

Despite it all, at least Roma is satisfied.

 

[RomaVicta]

 

[I35]

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