Romer resigns from Obama WH post
posted at 9:30 am on August 6, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Christine Romer will resign from her position as chief of Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers effective September 3rd. The White House says she wants to return to her previous career as an academic for family reasons; the AP reports that it has more to do with a conflict between Romer and Larry Summers about who gets the President’s ear on economic policy. Either way, Romer leaves a mark on this administration of failure that won’t be easily removed:
Christina Romer, one of President Barack Obama’s most pivotal economic advisers, is resigning, a change that comes as the White House struggles to show signs of clear economic gains to a hurting nation.
She will return to her job as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. The White House cast the decision as an unsurprising one driven by family reasons; in a statement, Obama said Romer has long wanted to return to California, where her son will be starting high school in the fall.
Romer has been one of the administration’s most prominent voices on the economy, making frequent appearances on television and at White House events to promote Obama’s policies. Her resignation comes as the White House labors to convince the public that the economy is on the right track amid near-double digit unemployment. …
Romer’s resignation came amid a report that she had been frustrasted that she didn’t have as much access to the president as LarrySummers, director of the White House National Economic Council. One administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal relations at the White House, played down that notion, noting that Romer met with the president daily to chart the government’s response to the financial meltdown. The official said Romer and Summers often emerged as strong allies.
Romer’s legacy will probably mostly focus on the Porkulus chart that argued for a $775 billion stimulus package and predicted it would hold the unemployment rate at 8% or below. The updated chart shows just how well Romer guessed in January 2009:
Romer also played a big role in botching the future deficits projection last year, missing the mark by $2 trillion. King Banaian showed the arbitrary (and unsupportable) assumptions that went into Romer’s initial figures, and the lame excuses that followed their exposure. Romer made a career in this administration of making unsupportable claims and bad bets, and she should have resigned a year ago over that amateurish episode.
That makes two key members of Obama’s economic team to depart this summer. Peter Orszag, the budget director who couldn’t spot Romer’s $2 trillion error and who presided over the biggest deficit expansion in modern history, hit the road for family obligations earlier. With approval ratings on the economy for Obama and Democrats crashing while unemployment skyrockets, it looks as though the White House wants to clean house and argue for a fresh start just before the midterms. Until that “fresh start” begins to reduce spending, taxes, and regulatory burdens, though, the composition of Obama’s economic team isn’t going to make any difference at all.
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Man these liberal women all look alike.
carbon_footprint on August 6, 2010 at 9:31 AM
“Austrian Economics, what Austrian Economics?”
ebrown2 on August 6, 2010 at 9:32 AM
The fresh start needed now is a new prez.
petefrt on August 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM
Good. Not only is Christopher Romer incompetent, but I couldn’t stand having to see that dude’s ugly mug every month on TV spinning bad job numbers.
Doughboy on August 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM
There are more important stories in the news …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJIlEoPWdC6lotP8mBIARilFPeyQD9HDRASO0
A.Q.’s new #3
Tony737 on August 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Uh … professor of economics? at Berkley?
That’s like being a professor of capitalism at Stalin University in Moscow.
darwin on August 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM
Janet Reno is an economic advisor?
Huh.
fossten on August 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM
So it’s back to teaching she goes. And what, precisely, does she have to offer in the way of economics expertise? Couldn’t she rightfully be called “economically illiterate”?
Rational Thought on August 6, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Man these liberal women all look alike. – Carbon
I know man, I thought it was Kagan at first.
Tony737 on August 6, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Obama Administration Rocked by Congressional Testimony of Three Year-Old Girl
Mervis Winter on August 6, 2010 at 9:37 AM
I dont think Orszag or Romer had any part in the decision making , they were just a front.
the_nile on August 6, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Don’t let the door hit ya.
I see nothing but incompetence here. Obviously I have huge ideological differences with most of these wack jobs but it would be one thing if there was an appearance of a well oiled machine.
BO and MO are parting like the king and queen while the jesters argue about who gets more face time.
Classy.
(ugly)
ORconservative on August 6, 2010 at 9:38 AM
Perfect for Berkley…a failed socialist economist…
right2bright on August 6, 2010 at 9:39 AM
So a massive failure will soon return to Bezerkly so she can propagate her failed ideas. And people will pay good money to sit and listen to her useless information.
How would you like to spend years paying off a student loan for that privilege?
Guardian on August 6, 2010 at 9:39 AM
He even got a recovery named after him.
Electrongod on August 6, 2010 at 9:40 AM
Replace her with Jamie Gorelick…..she is usually right in the middle of major disasters that inflict this country.
Baxter Greene on August 6, 2010 at 9:41 AM
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/13872
No worries the Lyin Pinnochio occupying the Peoples House will fix it by forgiving under water mortgages and WWS at the strata-sphere has a shout out to Ed and something Ed Missed. Is this what Obama meant when he said the difference is you have me this time?
“So how can this plan be made to work? Simple – The Fed. First Fannie Mae would vote to create $100 billion in new equities – or $200 billion, or $800 billion – the number is truly immaterial, Whatever they want. Then the Fed steps in and transfers this equity to it’s own balance sheet and hands over whatever Fannie Mae (ie, Obama) wants to carry out this plan. We are playing Calvinball here – there are no rules as to what the Fed can put on its balance sheet, and no effective oversight, not even from Congress. “
dhunter on August 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Also Napolitano. No offense, but they look like horses. Or gnomes.
Oh my god oh my god we are being taken over by the gnomes!!
GTR640 on August 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM
“noting that Romer met with the president daily to chart the government’s response to the financial meltdown. The official said”
Daily, daily!?!
She must have done a lot of travelling. I think Ozero has been in the oval office six or eight days during this term from Hell.
FOWG1 on August 6, 2010 at 9:45 AM
P.S. Didn’t Fannie just ask for 150 Billion more as reported yeaterday?
dhunter on August 6, 2010 at 9:45 AM
“Smart” people have really phuqed this country up.
artist on August 6, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Is Christina Romer really the one who pushed Porkulus? I know she was the mouthpiece, but have you read through the Romer and Romer papers from 2007 about the effect of tax cuts on the economy?
The most interesting line I found from the second PDF is this:
“The large effect stems in considerable part from a
powerful negative effect of tax increases on investment.”
If Christina Romer knows that tax cuts work and tax increases have a “powerful negatvie effect” on investment, then I can see her frustration.
VibrioCocci on August 6, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Aunt Bea’s going back to UCB to indoctrinate more empty minds in the wonders of her economic policies so they too may grow up to be employed by the govmint. The Won appoints economic advisers who add 2+2 to reach 2 trillion, judges for the SC that don’t understand the constitution to direct our future, and a doctor who would rather let you die than treat your illness. Yep, solid B+ performance.
Kissmygrits on August 6, 2010 at 9:46 AM
Gorelick at least has the sense to pocket a couple of million before what ever she’s involved in burns to the ground.
BigWyo on August 6, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
mwdiver on August 6, 2010 at 9:47 AM
I at least got a good “gallows humor” laugh when I heard the bit about her returning to the People’s Republic of Berkeley on the TV this morning.
Done trashing the United States’ Treasury and the economy as a whole? Well congratulations! C’mon back to your cushy job at Communist U!
forest on August 6, 2010 at 9:47 AM
As the old saying goes: Those who can… do; those who can’t do… teach. Those who can’t teach… publish.
Look for a book soon.
suburbanite on August 6, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Incompetent academic know-nothings at Berzerkley? No!!!
Jaibones on August 6, 2010 at 9:49 AM
I THINK CHRISTINA ROMER IS QUITTING BECAUSE SHE FAVORS EXTENDING THE BUSH TAX CUTS AND OBAMA DOESN’T
HERE’S WHY I THINK THIS: tax prof:
July 22, 2010
Romer & Romer: Tax Increases Significantly Contract the Economy
Christina D. Romer (Chair, Council of Economic Advisers) & David H. Romer (UC-Berkeley, Department of Economics) have published The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks, 100 Am. Econ. Rev. 763 (2010). Here is the abstract:
This paper investigates the impact of tax changes on economic activity. We use the narrative record, such as presidential speeches and Congressional reports, to identify the size, timing, and principal motivation for all major postwar tax policy actions.
This analysis allows us to separate legislated changes into those taken for reasons related to prospective economic conditions and those taken for more exogenous reasons.
The behavior of output following these more exogenous changes indicates that tax increases are highly contractionary.
The effects are strongly significant, highly robust, and much larger than those obtained using broader measures of tax changes.
July 22, 2010 in Scholarship, Tax | Permalink
OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES FAVORS TAX INCREASES BECAUSE OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES DON’T GIVE A HOOT ABOUT THE ECONOMY;
THEIR POLICIES ARE ONLY MEANT TO SHACKLE THE USA TO SOCIALISM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
WE CAN STOP THEM THIS NOVEMBER: VOTE GOP!
reliapundit on August 6, 2010 at 9:50 AM
So Romer got the chance to experiment with the American economy, and with it American families, using a concoction of bullshiite liberal economic theory….then after having a hand in near-destroying the economy she just walks away. Nice.
Bishop on August 6, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Bada boop…..boop….boop
Another one bites the dust
Brian1972 on August 6, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Actually, she made it clear that she was not going to be there long, didn’t she?
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Romer’s resignation may have something to do with this:
July job losses hit 131,000, rate stays at 9.5%; Update: June revised downward by almost 100K jobs.
Better jump ship before it sinks entirely. Back to the warm fuzzy liberal UC Berkeley campus. :(
poxoma on August 6, 2010 at 9:54 AM
I think there is way too much capitalism still going on in the country for her liking.
Vashta.Nerada on August 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM
Now, NOW, Romer will head back to Transgendered-Lenin University to teach a new crop of wanna-be communists the same tired and useless economic theory. Ten years down the road those fools will be trying to enter government to perpetuate the cycle of liberal stupidity and destruction.
But next time it will work, promise, because the younger, newer leftist fools CARE more than previous generations and caring = effectiveness.
Bishop on August 6, 2010 at 9:57 AM
You will be – it just won’t be your loan that you are paying off.
Vashta.Nerada on August 6, 2010 at 9:57 AM
Seriously, Romer, Reno, Napolitano, Kagan….put them up against Malkin, Kelly, Palin, Bachmann…I don’t know.
carbon_footprint on August 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM
Chiefs. Directors. Czars.
Too many bosses, all doing nothing but rearranging deck chairs and expanding government instead of governing efficiently and effectively.
Dennis Miller nailed it: “Weapons-grade stupidity.”
MarkT on August 6, 2010 at 9:59 AM
She looks like Ned Beatty’s big sister.
AubieJon on August 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM
Best to get out now because the public is getting restless. No one in this administration wants to do what is necessary to take care of Americans whether it’s job creation or protecting them.
They’re incompetent ideologues who love being in power, living large on the taxpayer’s dime and explaining daily that we are stupid and have no idea what’s good for us and our families.
Too bad Romer can’t take more of these clowns with her.
Cody1991 on August 6, 2010 at 10:03 AM
What a bunch of “no-real-life-experience-acedemic” eggheads. Larry Summers is the same guy who blew Harvard’s multi-billion endowment. In the Democratic bizzaro world, failure = promotion.
parteagirl on August 6, 2010 at 10:03 AM
The exodus begins.
Metanis on August 6, 2010 at 10:04 AM
Another Obama hottie!
KeepOhioRed on August 6, 2010 at 10:05 AM
Does it matter?
antisocial on August 6, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Getting rid of the cracker girl? How racist is that.
Keemo on August 6, 2010 at 10:08 AM
If only her boss would.
NickelAndDime on August 6, 2010 at 10:08 AM
Written by an 82-year old very wise lady.
She gives us a whole new slant on the amazing job Obama is doing:
That is right – I will say it, “THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT.”
1. He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine – Driving a stake thru the heart
of Hillary’s Presidential aspirations – something that no
Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared
the daylights out of you!
2. He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty -
No more Kennedys trolling Washington looking for booze and women
wanting rides home. American
women and Freedom are safer tonight!
3. He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!
Dennis Moore had never lost a race – quit
Evan Bayh had never lost a race – quit
Byron Dorgan had never lost a race – quit
Harry Reid – soon to be GONE
These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has
destroyed! By the end of 2010, dozens more will be gone.
In December of 2008, the Democrats were on the
rise. In the last two election cycles, they had picked up 14 senate
seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the
death of the Conservative Movement and the
Republican Party. In just one
year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably
give the House, if not the Senate, back to the
Republicans.
4. He has completely exposed liberals and
progressives for what they are. Every Generation seems to need to
re-learn the lesson on why they should never actually put
liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very
well.
Liberals tax, borrow and spend – check
Liberals won’t bring themselves to protect America – check
Liberals want to take over the economy – check
Liberals think they know what is best for everyone – check
Liberals aren’t happy till they are running YOUR life – check
5. He has brought more Americans back to conservatism
than anyone since Reagan. In one year, he has rejuvenated
the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of
Freedom Loving Americans. Name me one other time in your life
that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back
America !
6. His amazing leadership has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms
and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding
citizens have rallied and have provided a “stimulus” to the sporting goods
field while other industries have failed, faded or moved off-shore.
7. In all honesty, one year ago I was more afraid
than I have been in my life. Not of the economy, but of the
direction our country was going. I thought Americans had
forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends and
strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the
Greatness and Wisdom of the American people
was flat wrong.
8. When the American People wake up, no
smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!
Barack Obama woke up these Great Americans!
Again, I want to say, “Thank You Barack Obama!”
This is exactly the kind of hope and change we desperately needed !
right2bright on August 6, 2010 at 10:08 AM
Spit up a little. So true. Thanks for the laugh.
tottoritodd on August 6, 2010 at 10:09 AM
I couldn’t care less about the inner squabbles of the economic team, personally. She always indicated she was not planning on staying long-term.
What did interest me yesterday was Obama’s ridiculous speech that actually seemed to take credit for Ford’s success.
Say what?
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Setting aside her ability (or lack thereof), her demeanor always left me suspicious that she had a pint of scotch hidden in her desk drawer.
Dee2008 on August 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Don’t let the door hit ya…
CP on August 6, 2010 at 10:13 AM
The fact that there are both a “Council of Economic Advisers” and “White House National Economic Council” says a lot about our bloated government.
KS Rex on August 6, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Then why comment on an article about the inner squabbles of the economic team?
Dee2008 on August 6, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Is she decent looking? If so, forget it.
NickelAndDime on August 6, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Rats. Ship.
SurferDoc on August 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Makes you wonder how much a college degree is really worth with all these fountains of wisdom from the halls of academia screwing up everything they touch. I think Glenn Reynolds is on to something…
parteagirl on August 6, 2010 at 10:18 AM
She’s no Sibelius, Obama’s Silver Socialist Fox, grrrr! lol
NickelAndDime on August 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Liberal women do have – um, asthetic issues. Maybe that’s a good way to move young men from the liberal column to the conservative column, “Join us we have S.E. Cupp”, “Real Men Listen to Michelle”,”Our opinions have great legs”
WashingtonsWake on August 6, 2010 at 10:21 AM
What in the hell would a economics professor from Berkely possibly know about fixing a real economy? Insanity reigns throughout this administration starting at the top. When all is said and done, Biden will be known as the “smart” one.
volsense on August 6, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Republicans could make a Billion dollars on a Conservative Calendar Girl Calendar and coffee table book. Megan Kelly… Sarah Palin… S.E. Cupp…
WashingtonsWake on August 6, 2010 at 10:23 AM
You guys should knock off the looks remarks. First of all, it’s horribly sexist. And this should be a great year for banishing that type of thinking about what conservatives are like. You’re feeding a very typical stereotype when you constantly comment on looks.
Secondly, have you seen the liberal counterargument on this? They choose pictures of pot-bellied men with teabags hanging off of a greasy cap to “prove” that conservatives are all yahoos.
Neither stereotype is remotely relevant.
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 10:27 AM
One down, 6,874 to go.
Will Lisa Jackson bail before the midterms, or hang around to spend the rest of her Federal career under subpoena?
JEM on August 6, 2010 at 10:30 AM
It would be nice if Romer, (now not obligated to this administration), would publish the fact that this economy is still in a freefall meltdown mode, and the government is falsely producing “rosey numbers” to prevent a world-wide panic. It is only the Treasury and the Federal Reserve pumping billions into the markets that is propping up this country—and some one still has to pay the final bill.
Rovin on August 6, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Is this what you presume to teach, teacher?
Kralizec on August 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM
going from being a failure in academia, to a failure in gov’t, back to a failure in academia….
what a deal./
ted c on August 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM
Looks lke harmless tongue-in-cheek comments to me AnninCA.
Truthfully, it doesn’t matter what we say. The MSM will never show fairness. If we were all perfect angels, they would make things up whole cloth.
Irritable Pundit on August 6, 2010 at 10:35 AM
And yet, two people who are largely to blame for our economic crisis, Thelma Geithner and Louise Summers, are still in charge, and will now be even more powerful.
Awesome. The collapse of the American Empire is going to be epic.
Rae on August 6, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Sad…very sad and too true. :(
brtex on August 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Don’t forget Sens. McCaskill, Stabbenow, and Klobochur and Rep. Maxine Waters–and all of them are even more unappealing for what comes out of their mouths. A hall of fame for nitwits.
BuckeyeSam on August 6, 2010 at 10:41 AM
She seemed to not be able to keep facts from intruding on her assigned lies.
tarpon on August 6, 2010 at 10:42 AM
AnninCA,
Yes, it is sexist. It is also funny. Yes, of course the liberals could trot out thousands of pics of asthetically unpleasing conservatives. In fact they often do. And yet, in my opinion, it is far worse when we are afraid to do this. When we can’t be ridiculous and tongue-in-cheek, when we can’t say the wrong thing and be a bit snarky, a bit perverted, a bit wrong-headed, then we’re as bad as the liberals.
WashingtonsWake on August 6, 2010 at 10:43 AM
I don’t personally think economists are any better working on Wall St., teaching, or writing for newspapers.
It’s basically all the same: projecting the future, and that’s always a case of playing God, so to speak, or reading the tealeaves.
None of them know for sure.
Personally, I thought the biggest sin of the stimulus was not the stimulus. That was actually a state bailout plan, and I personally thought 80% of it made good sense. Give states a year to get their own houses into order. Otherwise, the cutbacks in state services would have further shocked people, and we were already shocked beyond action.
It worked, on that level. Look at what Crist is doing in NJ. He’s using the time to bring people there into reality.
I thought Palin tried doing the same in Alaska. Ditto for even Arnold in CA, though he didn’t succeed.
What was awful about the stimulus bill, speaking as a former Democrat, is the stupidity of the communications people. They honestly tried to sell that as a jobs creator.
I’d be willing to bet my last dollar that this particular person never actually thought that way. She did go along with her boss’s strategy, of course.
But frankly, economists don’t think that way, other than those who are into public adoration via the media.
In short, she’s guilty of overestimating the economy’s ability to bounce back.
I can’t explain why, but I always knew they were wrong on this one. Call it gut instinct, but we’re not coming back.
We hit the peak in the 90′s. And now, we’re experiencing the adage, “What goes up, comes down.”
And that includes the US Economy. Frankly, watching the overheated spending in the 90′s made me convinced that the tipping point was coming. Everyone wants granite counters and stainless steel appliances in new homes and a new car?
It was the roaring 90′s, for sure. Makes sense to me we hit bottom.
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Seriously, my theory is that Romer wants to have elective gastric surgery before Obamacare rules her out of coverage, and she wants to get back into the Cal pension system so that she has a better chance of being grandfathered before the state goes belly up.
BuckeyeSam on August 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM
(Taking a moment to swoon over all the hot conservative chicks and their big brains full of big ideas and big senses of humor and their big ability to lay a big smack down on a big pig like me.)
WashingtonsWake on August 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM
OK, but I’d like to see conservatives make some headway with real women, and as a former Democrat, now Independent, I guess I’m just saying that this type of stuff matters to me.
Ugly women have things to offer all of us. I don’t subscribe to the “beautiful” is better thinking.
I also don’t subscribe to the idea that homeliness is superior in brains, either.
I just am a bit of a nut of judging people individually, and being inclusive. That’s the liberal talking, I suppose.
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 10:47 AM
It might be relevant, have you ever seen MadisonConservative?
Bishop on August 6, 2010 at 10:50 AM
She’s leaving just in time for the next corrupt incompetent hack to fill her post.
Mojave Mark on August 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM
“Romer also played a big role in botching the future deficits projection last year, missing the mark by $2 trillion. “
..man, that’s gonna look real good on her resume.
The War Planner on August 6, 2010 at 10:52 AM
Oh, please, AnninCA.
Romer’s looks are irrelevent. I don’t think Romer is ugly by any stretch. It is humorous that most lib women in position of power look similar and they sure as hell aren’t swimsuit models. Maybe MO has to approve their looks first.
Who knows. Doesn’t matter, one down a heck of alot to go.
ORconservative on August 6, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Going back to Berkley so her son can be indoctrinated by that liberal cesspool of hippie – pass the bong – rejects. She certaintly couldn’t have him attending high school in conservative Fairfax County, that would just pollute his mind…..
jbh45 on August 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Apparently it fits Berkley’s standards…
right2bright on August 6, 2010 at 10:58 AM
My argument is that Obama wants it both ways. If he had really wanted people to understand the full scope of the crash and how it would truly affect our lives for years to come, he could have done so. And, he’d have an argument that our notion that tax cuts and war go together. Most people got that.
Wars should be funded. Period. That’s a check-and-balance to the deployment of troops. Otherwise, we’re letting presidents have way too much power.
But he chose to sell his stimulus plan as a big jobs creator, which has fallen way short.
She’s not the culprit. His inner strategists are the culprits.
That’s my point.
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Long after they are out of Office, the damage that they have done to the Country will last for decades. Obama could have not done all this damage without the help of the entire democrat party- who by trick and devise passed legislation such as Obamacare and Financial Reform. The latter hampers the economy more than it helps it-Obamacare will cause our Health Care Systems now in place to disappear. Huge tax increases are on the horizon and those taxes will hamper further growth. I really believe that this is the intent of Obama and the democrat party. They want to destroy the Country as we once knew it. The leftist media has gone right along with program. They have become another extension of the democrat party. Obama and the democrat party with help of some RINOS put two unqualified women to sit on the Supreme Court. They will be there long after the destroyers have left Office.
Agreed, liberal women have not been blessed with good looks but the damage they have and will do- will be with us for a very long time.
flintstone on August 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM
I know. I’m just wierd about this type of talk. It really is just personal. I hated the focus on looks.
If you’re pretty, then everyone thinks you’re stupid. If you’re ugly, then everyone thinks you’re stupid.
It’s just plain sexism to me. I listen to someone who is obviously bright, like Carl Rove, and picture him, well, you know….and it just never works. But I still adore him when he speaks. Even when I disagree, I admire him.
I wish women were given the same option, that’s all.
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 11:02 AM
Couldn’t scenario us rosily any longer, huh, ChrIstine? Not to worry, we’ll always have your lovely graphical works to remind us of you …
ya2daup on August 6, 2010 at 11:02 AM
Now, Clinton worked on all levels. :)
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Do you actually believe what you post?
You are about as independent as Pelosi, or Hillary…you are a leftist wanting to be accepted as independent, you are a democrat wanting to post on this site.
At least be honest…you want universal health care, abortions, welfare, tax the corps, against insurance companies (because they stood in the way of your trough) there is very little about you that is anything
but left of centerworthwhile.right2bright on August 6, 2010 at 11:04 AM
This won’t help our country. Bammie builds a cocoon around himself of people that are Marxists like himself. He must be very intellectually insecure to be unwilling to tolerate any difference in worldview.
Odd that the liberals who force diversity on the rest of us will not tolerate diversity of political outlook in their inner circles.
slickwillie2001 on August 6, 2010 at 11:05 AM
AnninCA,
I absolutely respect that. And as an ugly man, appreciate that most folks are generally kind regardless of my lack of asthetics. I don’t beleive that we are limited to a single perception. I am not only the man you read here, but i’m also the father to a daughter, the husband to a wife, the son to a mother, the brother to a sister, the friend to a friend. I would never want any of them hurt or disparaged for their looks or their minds or their souls.
Each of us, regardless of our looks, mental capacity, age or gender has something to offer.. something important to offer. It is no small thing to be endowed by our creator with life and the liberty to pursue happiness, and it is a great responsibility that goes with it.
To me, that means laughter and kindness. If there is one thing that I sometimes walk away from here ashamed of, it is that I am not always as kind as I should be. But, I don’t think it is unkind to call someone beautiful, but I am brutally unkind to the president – out of anger and frustration. Yes, I should be better than that.
I suppose, since I put so little weight on my own looks and brains, it hard to imagine anyone taking a joking jab as anything remotely serious. BUT, let’s face it, this is the internet, you can’t know that I’m fat and ugly. (The stupid part, I’m pretty sure is obvious. (hehehe)
WashingtonsWake on August 6, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Yeah, and I’m the freaking tooth fairy.
Ain’t gonna happen. Barry’s socialist training won’t let it.
GarandFan on August 6, 2010 at 11:11 AM
As a ‘recovering’ UC Berkeley MBA myself, I kinda wish she’d stay at the WH. She’d do far less damage in the long run staying in public service instead of clouding the minds of thinking students. Ditto for other UCB Economic Solons I had the pleasure of learning ‘under’ such as Laura D’Andrea Tyson and Janet Yellen, though the latter is much more down the middle than the other two, ESPECIALLY Tyson!
bobnox on August 6, 2010 at 11:13 AM
Weird isn’t it?
Tim_CA on August 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM
It wasn’t a state bailout plan, it was a union bailout plan.
darwin on August 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM
And like any good wannabe DICKtator he refuses press conferences and refuses to take ANY questions!
If Bush never had a press conference?
Where the HELL is the Press demanding access and answers.
A bunch of lazy a$$e$ that for all intensive purposes are on the public payroll as they prop up the DICKtator through their actions and non-actions!
dhunter on August 6, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Typical. One of our resident ninnies is sidetracking the discussion because we ‘re “mean.”
Well, Romer is a fat, ugly doofus. I won’t shut up, and I’ll call these idiots whatever I like. None of them are listening, anyway, but they will soon.
Marie Antoinette, another FUGLY, is vacationing in ERP, Barf took another retinue to Chicago. The dog gets a free ride, too.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are panicked about their futures and those of their children.
This is an outrage, and no one should give a damn about about these creeps.
Keep shouting!
Cody1991 on August 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM
What a lovely post, and I bet every single person appreciates you in their lives.
Seriously, this was my own personal hangup. I just had to overprove my own brains. I never remember a time when I escaped the entire image deal, and it always struck me as totally unfair.
I feel, and still do, that should be a case of my personal choices, marriage, lovers, etc. Then, looks make a difference, naturally.
But good gravy, in work, too?
It’s fairly tough for women to find a space in life where they can relax about this issue.
I don’t honestly understand how homely women survive without extreme low self-esteem issues.
My only smart thought is a woman I met in my early 20′s who had beautiful blond hair but a horse face. But she had such a winning personality that the more you got to know her, the prettier she appeared. Everyone I knew was attracted to her.
And it wasn’t some phony deal. She was just sincerely beautiful inside.
That clued me in that looks aren’t always about symmetry.
The opposite was meeting several fairly ugly people who were mean-spirited and bitter.
I guess it all comes down to how people handle it.
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 11:23 AM
Oh yeah, I’d love a universal health plan that really helps people. I just don’t think that’s actually plausible.
So, I’m liberal in spirit and pragmatic.
AnninCA on August 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM
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