Monday, March 17, 2008 - 11:18 AM
World Bank President Robert Zoellick, formerly the number two in the State Department, told Europeans at the Brussels Forum that the next U.S. president is going to piss them off:
Zoellick began his session by challenging European expectations for a new U.S. president. "My major concern is that the tenor of the debate in Europe is raising expectations – regardless of who the next president is – that overlooks a range of interests that I think both parties in the United States would pursue and also some ideologies… they would pursue, and that those heightened expectations will inevitably have to be adjusted," Zoellick said.
Zoellick's European interlocutors are no doubt motivated by the idea that things couldn't get any worse than they are now. I was at the State Dept. during the 2000 presidential campaign. When it started to look like Bush might actually win, European diplomats we worked with asked us: you're not really going to elect this guy, are you?
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