Talk:Robert Zoellick

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Contents 1 Initial comments 2 Cleanup and improvements 3 Zoellikcs Jewish Heritage 4 Please sign your comments with four tildes 5 Zoellick's wife?

[edit] Initial comments

Is it inappropriate to add "(Fannie Mae)" after "Federal National Mortgage Association" in the Business and Academia paragraph? 71.179.99.45 23:31, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I'd say the Wiki views on Mr. Zoellick are inconsistent with his resume.

"Zoellick's approach to public policy to date appears to be more that of a committed nationalist than that of a free-trader"

Committed nationalists don't seek out UN intervention and don't join the Council on Foreign relations nationalists don't invade foreign nations which aren't threats to their nation and nationalists don't advocate foreign invasion of their own territory, Fannie Mae is engaged in subsidizing foreign invaders and social engineering which isn't surprising since he admired the "idealism" of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

"Zoellick "regards free trade philosophy and free trade agreements as instruments of U.S. national interests"

Our socalled "free trade" policies are annihilating America's industry and gutting the middle class while miring America in trillions of unsustainable debt while enouraging massive 3 world emigration all to prop up the racist hostile commie nation of China.

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Yeah, uh, the first half of that is potentially valid. Your second is not. It just says what Zoellick believes; whether his beliefs are valid are for the reader to judge, perhaps at the free trade page.

[edit] Cleanup and improvements

With his nomination for the World Bank position today the article has gained major importance. The quality is not up to scratch at the moment. I invite editors with particular knowledge on the issue to do a thorough cleanup and other improvements. Javit 23:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

My question about his Jewish heritage was legitimate.

[edit] Zoellikcs Jewish Heritage

Robert Bruce Zoellick was confirmed at Bethany Lutheran Church in Naperville, IL on March 19, 1967. This is a verifiable fact. Canda2Canda2 (talk) 17:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC) Zoellicks Jewish heritage is questionable I haven't found any sources that confirm his Jewishness or membership in a Jewish community.

okay, let's keep that out until a source and reference are provided. Javit 16:19, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Actually, i've found some articles that indicate he is indeed jewish, but haven't yet found a source that would pass as credible. A google search does the trick, but unfortunately the list is full of unreliable and unverifiable blogs etc. Still looking for a newspaper article or a verifiable NPOV statement. Javit 16:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Where is the information about him being German from? It keeps getting restored by anon editors with no references. Ritto Revolto 19:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Zoellick is clearly a German name. Some anon vandals keeps inserting bullshit like "He is a hawkish pro-Israel Jew in the Bush (Jr) Administration"

A last name doesn't do it. There needs to be a reliable source, see WP:V, WP:NOR. Ritto Revolto 20:13, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

People with German names are usually German. How about the New York Times? "A Midwesterner with German ancestors, Mr. Zoellick received the Knight Commanders Cross from the unified German government."[1] He also served on the board of the German Marshall Fund and other German-American institutions.

"People with German names are usually German" is not a reliable source, but the New York Times is. I'll format the citation into proper style. Ritto Revolto 21:51, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

An article (Hebrew) in Ynet claims he is Jewish. Scarlight 18:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

How come everybody we nominate for a major international post is a heeb? I understand the need not to exclude people because of their religion, but these hooks represent 1/50th of the US population. They're WAY over-represented. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.183.178.138 (talk • contribs)

I'm not exactly sure what your problem is, but Robert Zoellick isn't even Jewish to begin with. It really seems that alot of people, including the author of that Israeli article, buy into anti-semetic myths about "international Jewish bankers."

A significant portion of international bankers are Jewish. The vast majority of laureates for the Nobel Prize in Economics are Jews. The President/CEO of four of the five US broadcast television network are not only Jews, but active Zionist activists (Robert Iger, for example), and the fifth (Murdoch) has Jewish ancestry. And oh yeah, they represent approximately 1/500th of the world's population. YOU connect the dots. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.183.178.138 (talk • contribs)

So... no, your attempts to malign people who "buy into anti-semetic myths about 'international Jewish bankers'" doesn't bother me, because I know that the era of the reign of people like you is coming to an end. Your words bother me no more than how, back during the days of the old USSR, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union would attempt to malign pro-democracy/pro-freedom dissidents by portraying them as "imperialists" and "fascists". That's all the phrase "anti-semitic" amounts to these days -- it's just a buzzword that the entrenched corpro-zionist entity, and it's supporters, uses against people who DARE speak the truth -- much in the same way Stalin and Brezhnev's henchmen would try to peg dissidents as "imperialists" for speaking the truth. And just like in the 1980's USSR, just before it came crashing down on the heads of the evil communist monsters who used false accusations and buzzwords to malign the fighters of righteousness, fewer and fewer people are listening to you... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.183.178.138 (talk • contribs)

THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL, JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, The corrupt media and government can use it's high intelligence to sway our society into secularism all it wants, but what is true is always right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.243.168.201 (talk) 05:00, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please sign your comments with four tildes

I love that whoever put this up didn't sign it :) Mathiastck 21:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Someone needs to take the "Jews" comment out. It is biggoted.

[edit] Zoellick's wife?

Isn't he married? Sidebar lists him as single ...