US Treasury Secretary John Snow has said that he wouldn't consider
U2's Bono to be an unrealistic candidate to be the next President of the World Bank. Speaking to the New York Post Snow said:
"Most people know him as a rock star. He's in a way a rock star of the development world, too. He understands the give-and-take of development. He's a very pragmatic, effective and idealistic person." Snow doesn't elaborate on how Bono would find much time for his World Bank tasks in among touring and recording commitments - though most bankers I know never seem to do much anyway, so perhaps that wouldn't matter.