I first lost respect for Obama when just days after getting sworn into office back in 2009, he started to promote the horrible loser Larry Summers as a person capable of repairing the economy.
Today, I discovered that Obama’s weird dependence on this disgusting creepazoid remains in place:
For the first time, he offered up the names of three possible successors to the current Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke: Mr. Summers, a former senior economic adviser to the president; Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s vice chairwoman; and Donald L. Kohn, a former Fed vice chairman. Mr. Obama said he would probably make the decision this fall.
Speaking to members of the House Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill, Mr. Obama said in answer to a sharp question from Representative Ed Perlmutter of Colorado that he believed Mr. Summers had been maligned in the liberal news media, according to several House Democrats who attended the meeting.
Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia, said the president described Mr. Summers as a rock of stability who deserved credit for helping to steer the American economy back from the financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing recession. Mr. Obama, Mr. Connolly said, singled out the negative coverage of Mr. Summers in The Huffington Post.
Summers has been maligned by all decent people and kicked out of Harvard because he is a vicious, unintelligent jerk whose arrant stupidity made him the laughing stock of academic communities everywhere. Now Obama is pretending that he doesn’t know it. I wonder if he even realizes how many of his sincere supporters have been disgusted and repelled by his continued support of Summers.
I don’t want to venture any guesses as to why Obama, who knows exactly what kind of a loser Summers is, keeps promoting him. Any explanation I can come up with will be extremely unflattering to Obama. All I can say is that this is beyond disappointing.
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