Posted on 09/18/2011 8:37:20 PM PDT by obama-facts
A new book about Barack Obama, whose Pulitzer-prize winning author received extensive co-operation from the White House, portrays the American president as indecisive, out of his depth and facing insubordination from advisers.
"Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President" by Ron Suskind, to be published tomorrow, could not have come at a worse time for Mr Obama. His popularity remains in the doldrums, he is struggling to implement a new economic plan and he faces a tough challenge to be re-elected next year.
Larry Summers, a former top economic adviser is quoted as telling Peter Orszag, then Mr Obama's budget director, at a dinner in Washington's Bombay Club: "We're home alone. There's no adult in charge. Clinton would never have made these mistakes." Mr Summers was US Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton.
Mr Orszag is quoted as telling the author: "Larry just didn't think the president knew what he was deciding."
Anita Dunn, a former Obama communications director, is quoted as saying that "looking back, this place would be in court for a hostile workplace ... Because it actually fits all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace for women."
Christine Romer, another former senior economic adviser, is quoted as saying after she was excluded from a meeting by Mr Summers: "I felt like a piece of meat." She is also said to have asked Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor and Obama ally: "Why is it always the women?" "Why are we the only ones with the balls around here?"
Mr Obama granted Mr Suskind, who wrote three bestsellers about the Bush administration that seriously damaged President George W. Bush's credibility, a 50-minute interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
OCTOBER 2004 : (NY TIMES' RON SUSKIND PIECE FABRICATES A QUOTE ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY AND ATTRIBUTES IT TO PRESIDENT BUSH; WITHIN MERE HOURS AFTER THE TIMES GOES TO PRESS, THE KERRY CAMPAIGN MANAGES TO PUT AN AD TOGETHER FEATURING THE "QUOTE" -- See BOOKDEALS)
He also claimed that a map depicting various nations' [including some not friendly to the USA] interest in oil exploration inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq should UN sanctions on Iraq be lifted--- was somehow part of a DoD plan to topple Hussein and divvy up Iraq rather than what it really was, a old map of how Saddam Hussein and his regime was likely to divvy up oil contracts to post-sanctions business partners and in fact also detailed the same info for the UAE and Saudi Arabia. It was not a Pentagon document targetting Iraq as Suskind claimed and was not a plan for an Iraq without Saddam Hussein at the helm.
Put me down for two autographed copies (one as a Christmas present for my liberal sister and her tree hugging husband).
I don’t need a book to tell me this nimrod pResident is the biggest incompetent boob the world has seen in the last five centuries...he should re-title the book to “A ball lost in tall weeds”.
Yeah. I pretty much thought she looked like a huge rump roast.
Nailed it!
LOL I almost put “No pun intended”.
For about three months I have been saying he won’t run.
I don’t trust Suskind...
August 04, 2008
Ron Suskind: White House ordered forgery to link al-Qaeda/Saddam to 9/11 attacks
Suskind appeared on the TODAY show and gave his first interview about it...He says it’s “one of the great lies in modern political history.”
The book reports (or charges) that the Bush White House faked a letter from Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief to President Saddam in late 2003, backdating it to July 2001 and reports that Saddam’s intelligence chief (Habbush) was in the protective custody of the C.I.A. at the time— even while the U.S. military had him in the “deck of cards,” a list of Saddam officials wanted dead-or-alive. The White House ordered the C.I.A. to arrange for Habbush to write the fake letter in his own handwriting. The controversial letter did find itself to the world media in December ‘03.
Liberals believed every word Suskind wrote about Bush, et al. so, how do they trash him now? Payback is a bitch isn’t it liberals?!
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Mr. Summers told The Washington Post in an e-mail on Friday that “the hearsay attributed to me” in the Suskind book “is a combination of fiction, distortion, and words taken out of context.”
Also quoted in “Confidence Men” is Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who headed the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, who describes the president as both “too self-confident” and too reliant on Mr. Summers: “Obama is smart, but smart is not enough. Leadership is another thing entirely, about knowing your mind enough to make real decisions, ones that last.”
As for how women fared within the White House, Christina D. Romer, the former chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is quoted saying she “felt like a piece of meat” after being boxed out of a meeting by Mr. Summers. And the former communications director Anita Dunn is quoted saying the Obama White House “fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.” Questioned by reporters last week about these remarks, both women have said they were misquoted or that their comments had been misconstrued.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/books/ron-suskinds-confidence-men-focuses-on-obama-review.html
But, where's Pig-nose Waxman in your line-up of losers?
He deserves a spot on your rogue wall, if only for the authorship of the $878 billion Porkulous bill
But, where's Pig-nose Waxman in your line-up of losers?
He deserves a spot on your rogue wall, if only for the authorship of the $878 billion Porkulous bill
According to the book, Summers sought to derail Obama’s push on several policies, including a financial transactions tax.
At one point, Orszag delivered a private report to the president, at his request, about what might happen if the government did not act to rein in the long-term federal budget deficit. Summers was outraged that Orszag would communicate with the president without going through the National Economic Council.
“What you’ve done is immoral!” Summers shouted.
True. Even if he leaves voluntarily or is defeated it will be impossible to repeal his lasting legacy, national health care, without a veto proof majority in the Senate. A Dem minority can filibuster any attempt to repeal it.
Then we had better make sure as to what it will be because you can be sure they will try to do the same. Our "last minute news" better trump theirs.
LOLOL!
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Obama will not, now will Michelle permit, the giving up vacations on your dime or on whitey’s dime.
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