President Obama has just nominated Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a physician and president of Dartmouth College, to be president of the World Bank.
The choice ends speculation that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is known to be wanting to leave her current post, would be tipped for the job. Reuters reported last summer that Clinton was in talks to lead the organization, which Clinton’s camp denied.
“Jim has spent more than two decades working to improve conditions in developing countries around the world,” Obama said in a statement announcing the surprise pick. “The World Bank is one of the most powerful tools we have to reduce poverty and raise standards of living around the globe, and Jim’s personal experience and years of service make him an ideal candidate for this job.”
Kim was director of the World Health Organization’s Department of HIV/AIDS and was once on TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”
In 2007, Kim gave $5,000 to the America Works PAC, which was founded by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in 1997 to elect liberals to the Senate and House.
Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and came to the U.S. at age 5. Tonight, Obama flies to Seoul for the Nuclear Security Summit and various bilateral talks.
Tickin’ off Hillary is not a good move.
Now, that’s funny.
A definite plus for Dartmouth. Thank you, Obama.
Don’t know anything about the man.
However, if Obama likes him, you can bet your bottom dollar he’s a one world government statist.
I would nominate my father to head the World Bank.
Like Dr. Kim, my father is a naturalized US citizen, but that’s where the similarity ends. My father grew up in Mexico. Quit school at 13 years old to work full time. Then at 18 years old got a green card and went straight into the US Army. After the Army he got married, bought a house, and raised four kids all on a factory worker’s salary.
The reason I nominate my dad for head of the World Bank is that I saw first hand just how far he could stretch a dollar. He may not have any formal training in finance, but he has a proven 40 year track record at maximizing use of capital resources unmatched by anyone I know. Getting even a small loan out of him was also next to impossible. If I, his own flesh and blood, was unsuccessful in getting a loan from him in 18 years of trying, just imagine how hard he would be on corrupt foreign governments seeking handouts. I can just picture some well-dressed bureaucrat asking for a $100M loan while giving him a sob story about the poor barefoot children back home and him just saying, “big deal, that’s how I grew up, and I turned out OK”.
My dad would have the World Bank whipped into shape in no time.
– we will always have with us. O is just going for the Asian vote.
As per the powerline blog, this guy is not good news for us – after all he feels that ‘meeting Soros is a dream come true’!
They have a detailed write up on this guy and, it’s not all pretty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Yong_Kim
A globalist.
Was responsible for giving away aid to Haiti, without controls(is Haiti any better today than since the earthquake? NO!). Believes in NGO’s, known forms of corruption (especially in Brazil’s Amazon Region).
An insider, from everything one gathers in his background. A political lackey, not too much different than how politics is practiced in Korea.
Is definitely 100% in sync with Mr. Obama’s philosophical views of “wealth distribution.”
Is secretive about FOA (Freedom Of Information Act). While President at Dartmouth resisted publishing school’s budget, especially expenditures over $10,000 dollars.
A dyed-in-the-wool progressive, sycronized to Mr. Obama’s socialization, golabalization, domination jauggernaut. God Bless America. Cloward-Piven recruit.