This is related to the qualifications for being a CEO thread.
Apparently, the qualifications for running the World Bank are that you need to have failed as a CEO. Having been booted out of HP only two weeks ago, Carly Fiorina is now being back by the White House to lead the World Bank. The previous candidate, amazingly, was Paul Wolfowitz, the number #2 at the Defense department who had no idea how many soldiers have died in Iraq and who wrongly made us all think that Iraq was about to rain WMDs on our heads.
To quote Chris Rock, we've turned into nothing but a bunch of "low-expectation-having motherfuckers." What does it say when the search for a new leader comes down to two people with pretty major blemishes on their record?
Of course, declining expectations is nothing new with the current administration. After all, it was Bush himself who named John Ashcroft Attorney General after he lost a governorship race to a dead man. Can't get worse than that.
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WASHINGTON, March 1 - Carleton S. Fiorina, who lost her job as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard two weeks ago, has emerged as a strong candidate to become the next president of the World Bank, according to an official in the Bush administration.
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, is also under serious consideration, the official said, but Mr. Wolfowitz is expected to release a statement later today saying that he has been asked to stay at the Pentagon.
Apparently, the qualifications for running the World Bank are that you need to have failed as a CEO. Having been booted out of HP only two weeks ago, Carly Fiorina is now being back by the White House to lead the World Bank. The previous candidate, amazingly, was Paul Wolfowitz, the number #2 at the Defense department who had no idea how many soldiers have died in Iraq and who wrongly made us all think that Iraq was about to rain WMDs on our heads.
To quote Chris Rock, we've turned into nothing but a bunch of "low-expectation-having motherfuckers." What does it say when the search for a new leader comes down to two people with pretty major blemishes on their record?
Of course, declining expectations is nothing new with the current administration. After all, it was Bush himself who named John Ashcroft Attorney General after he lost a governorship race to a dead man. Can't get worse than that.
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WASHINGTON, March 1 - Carleton S. Fiorina, who lost her job as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard two weeks ago, has emerged as a strong candidate to become the next president of the World Bank, according to an official in the Bush administration.
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, is also under serious consideration, the official said, but Mr. Wolfowitz is expected to release a statement later today saying that he has been asked to stay at the Pentagon.