[catnipman]

“So Chu is basically repeating whatever he was told; it’s not something he knows, it’s just what we already heard.”

That’s all any of Obama’s cabinet, advisers and appointees can do, because not a single one of them knows a damn thing. Every last one of them was appointed for their ideology, not their knowledge or ability. The Obamunnist government is run by affirmative action babies, community organizers and assorted Marxist professors.

[aruanan]

“So Chu is basically repeating whatever he was told; it’s not something he knows, it’s just what we already heard.”

Basically. As Chu himself said when visiting the University of Chicago, he doesn't read the papers in his field, he has post-docs that do that for him.