Porcine flight

If that highlighted quote below [emphasis mine] doesn't make you fall off your chair laughing, you haven't been paying attention at all.

"The current unjust arrangement by which the U.S. gets to appoint the head of the World Bank and the Europeans pick the head of the IMF has to end," said Bernice Romero, advocacy director for international development group Oxfam.

Nancy Birdsall, president of the Washington-based Center for Global Development, said the Wolfowitz case illustrated the need for change, but she questioned whether the United States would budge.

"I wish the Bush administration would announce its support for an open, competitive and merit-based process," Birdsall said.

"When pigs fly," SPIIDERWEB™ said.

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