11 stunning revelations from Larry Summers’s secret economics memo to Barack Obama

11 stunning revelations from Larry Summers’s secret economics memo to Barack Obama. James Pethokoukis wades thru a 57-page “Sensitive & Confidential” memo written by economist Larry Summers (later head of the presidents’s National Economic Council) to president-elect Obama in December 2008 and finds it contains more than a few inconvenient truths which they hid from the public.

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  • Obama sez:"Secret memo? I don't read no secret memo. I don't need no stinkin' secret memo. I'm the king of earth and space."

    The One rules without advisors, without limits and without thought as the Ship of State drifts toward the fiscal rocks.

    • The One rules without advisors, without limits and without thought as the Ship of (FOOLS?) drifts toward the fiscal rocks.

  • They boy who would be king still doesn't have a clue of what the hell he is doing, even his dipshit advisers knew this was a bad idea, and I thought Barry didn't have an agenda? It appears another lie in a long list of lies by this inexperienced man child/golfer/wanna be.

      • Sorry, R-Dub. And thanks for the kind words, My Friend :o)

        p.s. I hear that if Obama loses the election, he's planning to dump Michelle and run off to Massachusetts hand-in-hand with Summers, just to make it legal.