Now 50 years ago, that was a laughably simple question.

This announcement seemed intended to offend the peoples of Africa and try their patience, due to the laughably small sum (2,500 million dollars annually is slightly more than twice the annual turnover of Disneyland in France) and the fact that the World Bank, along with IMF, is one of the main perpetrators of economic and social genocide in Africa in recent decades.

Indeed, like Clinton before him, Obama has been unable to get Republican senators like Susan Collins to vote for her own campaign finance policies, McCain to vote for his own climate change policy, and most laughably Romney to support his own health care plan. Likewise, he has been unable to get Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan to endorse his own Medicare cost control proposals.