"The President Has a Real Woman Problem"
Or at least so claims Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, a new book by Ron Suskind. From a review in the Washington Post:
It says that women occupied many of the West Wing’s senior positions, but felt outgunned and outmaneuvered by male colleagues such as former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Summers.
“I felt like a piece of meat,” Christina Romer, former head of the Council of Economic Advisers, said of one meeting in which Suskind writes she was “boxed out” by Summers
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“The president has a real woman problem,” an unnamed high-ranking female official told Suskind. “ The idea of the boys’ club being just Larry and Rahm isn’t really fair. He [Obama] was just as responsible himself.”
...According to the book, female staffers, like Dunn and Romer, felt sidelined. In November 2009, female aides complained to the president about being left out of meetings, or ignored.
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Jun '10
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I haven't held a corporate position for quite a while, but I do know that my bossI would have laughed me out of the office if I'd complained to him or her about being igonored.....or left out.
BooHoo! Are these idiotic women really planning to use sexism as their excuse for every slight, every unkind word. Toughen up. Make yourself indispensible by being damn good at your job & then nobody would ever think of leaving you out of a meeting.
Dec '10
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Power is not given. It is taken.
Apr '11
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I wonder if the steel fist in the velvet glove has that problem?
Dec '10
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Look, I'm not saying he doesn't, but Christina Romer is the last person who should be complaining about not getting Obama's attention.
She is the person who made that ridiculous chart indicating that, with the stimulus, unemployment would be under 8% with the stimulus (and, in fact, under 9% without it).
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/assets/Geoff8%206%2011.gif
Oh, and with that epic failure under her belt, she gets a prestigious academic job.
Mar '11
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You are comparing the private sector with the public and they are very different, especially when run by leftists. Depending on who you work for being exceptional, or even very good can be a liability.
Mar '11
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This tack would make sense if they were making it to distance themselves from the gawd-awful mess we are in.
"I told him that Cash-for-Clunkers was dimwitted, and the Stimulus was a disaster, and Obamacare stunk on ice, and Solyndra couldn't make any money making solar panels for $6 and selling them for $3, but did he listen? He did not, because he's a sexist!"
Dec '10
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Give Me Liberty
You are comparing the private sector with the public and they are very different, especially when run by leftists. Depending on who you work for being exceptional, or even very good can be a liability. · Sep 16 at 4:34pm
Yeah, I've noticed the following: Liberals assume that success is via access to citadels of power. You get into the right club, one way or another, and you are "in". Then you work your way up by cultivating those relationships.
Cynically, competence is downplayed in favor of credentials and those credentials are quite resilient to poor performance.
And in the world they inhabit, that's often true. The Ivy League law degree carries a lot of weight and even if it doesn't guarantee a SCOTUS clerk job, you aren't going to hurt for employment. In the academic humanities (and a lot of others as well), it's all about where you got your Ph.D., forget the actual results.
May '10
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The question on my mind is:
Did excluding women from the decision-making process make our country under President Obama more worse or less worse? Discuss.
Dec '10
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Mark Wilson: The question on my mind is:
Did excluding women from the decision-making process make our country under President Obama more worse or less worse? Discuss. · Sep 16 at 5:07pm
It is playng hell with grammer.
May '10
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Foxman
Mark Wilson: The question on my mind is:
Did excluding women from the decision-making process make our country under President Obama more worse or less worse? Discuss. · Sep 16 at 5:07pm
It is playng hell with grammer. · Sep 16 at 5:11pm
Ha. That was intentional. Our country is undoubtedly worse; I'm just wondering about the degree of worse-ness. Concave up or concave down?
Edited on Sep 16, 2011 at 5:28pmJan '11
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Its bush's fault.
[Edited to comply w/CoC]
Edited on Sep 16, 2011 at 5:56pmDec '10
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I see what you did there. I think you managed to skirt the code of conduct rather deftly with that one.
Edited on Sep 16, 2011 at 5:56pmJul '10
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Foxman
Mark Wilson: The question on my mind is:
Did excluding women from the decision-making process make our country under President Obama more worse or less worse? Discuss. · Sep 16 at 5:07pm
It is playng hell with grammer. · Sep 16 at 5:11pm
The spelling, though, is the real victim.
Mar '11
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I was told there would be no grammar or spelling cops!
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AmishDude
I see what you did there. I think you managed to skirt the code of conduct rather deftly with that one. · Sep 16 at 5:32pm
And you just outed him! I was looking at Yeah...ok's comment and wondering, "bad grammar, or intentional lewdness?" I suppose I'm going to have to be a wet blanket and correct the grammar.
Edited on Sep 16, 2011 at 5:57pmAug '11
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Christina Romer is a piece of meat? Wow, who knew?
I guess that makes Elena Kagan a smokin' hottie.
Jul '10
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If an oblique reference to Gerald Ford is COC compliant, then it seems to me that mention of the bushes shouldn't be out of bounds.
May '10
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They were created on page 1,836 of the Obamacare bill.
Jul '10
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Tom Paine: Christina Romer is a piece of meat? Wow, who knew?
I guess that makes Elena Kagan a smokin' hottie. · Sep 16 at 5:55pm
That's the last time I read Ricochet while eating.
Oct '10
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To be honest, this does fit with the reputations of Rahm Emanuel and Lawrance Summers. Both have a reputation for being arrogant enough with men, much less women (though Rahm significantly less so then Summers).