Barack Obama

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3. The one quality that everyone seems to agree that Summers has is that

Fri Sep 13, 2013, 09:14 AM

Sep 2013

he doesn't appear to be afraid to piss people off and confront them directly.

So he has developed a lot of enemies, not the least of which is Cornell West who Summers pushed as President of Harvard to do more academic publication to match his earlier brilliant work.

Maybe it is that kind of "in your face" hutzpah that the President sees as being particularly useful for a Fed Chairman.

As I said I don't understand the decision but I do know that the President gave it a lot of serious consideration and made a serious attempt to see the question from multiple angles.

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Interesting that you posted this in the BOG group grantcart Sep 2013 #1

I've wondered if it was a "Hahvad" thing...n/t monmouth3 Sep 2013 #2

The one quality that everyone seems to agree that Summers has is that grantcart Sep 2013 #3

How do you KNOW this? chimpymustgo Sep 2013 #4

All we can hope and pray for is that he will be "Borked"..I'm counting on it...n/t monmouth3 Sep 2013 #5

Because of the President's epistemology grantcart Sep 2013 #6

What's MOST revealing is what a person DOES. We can never really know what they are thinking. chimpymustgo Sep 2013 #9

Actually communicating is doing something, and as a leader its very important. grantcart Sep 2013 #10

I haven't followed the career of Summers treestar Sep 2013 #7

Hopefully false, but "unnamed sources" should be forbidden in journalism.\nt Mass Sep 2013 #8