It gets better. Guess who just resigned from his position as an adviser to Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president of the Ivory Coast who lost the election but refuses to step down? Lanny Davis. Yeah, that one. He was serving as an adviser to the anti-democratic incumbent.

Mr Davis said he had repeatedly tried to set up a phone conversation between Mr Gbagbo and Mr Obama which would have given the Ivorian “options for a peaceful resolution, that would avoid further bloodshed and be in the best interests of his country”.

“Unfortunately, the decision was made in Abidjan not to allow President Obama’s call to be put through to Mr Gbagbo, despite my repeated objections to that decision,” he wrote in his resignation letter, which was seen by CNN.

Davis, an American citizen and former top adviser to Bill Clinton, says he can no longer serve as a representative of the government of the Ivory Coast. Go figure.