Larry Summers falls asleep during Obama’s meeting with credit card executives.
Larry Summers falls asleep during Obama’s meeting with credit card executives.
Today, President Obama met with credit card industry officials at the White House. After the meeting, he pledged to push for a law that would offer “strong and reliable” protections for credit card users in the United States. He called the session with the industry executives “open and productive conversation.” However, one person who seemed less than interested in the meeting was White House economic adviser Larry Summers, who fell asleep. From the pool report:
President Obama met with credit card industry officials in the Roosevelt Room. You have a list of who was at the table, with Geithner to Obama’s right in the middle of the table and Jarrett to his left. At either end were Summers and Romer. Also in the room seated behind Obama were Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Gene Sperling, who serves as counselor to Geithner. You will soon have Obama’s remarks or can see them on TV.
One thing to note is that Summers appeared to be nodding off near the beginning of Obama’s remarks. And then he DID nod off, doing the head on the hand and then head falling off the hand thing. Photogs seemed to be having a field day. All other officials in the room appeared fully awake.
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I’ve been having one of those afternoons myself…
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:33 pmSummers fell asleep….GOOD! nothing can go wrong for 15 minutes!! Common Obama, we need yonge blood making our way to the future.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 pmHey TP, your title says “meeting Obama’s meeting.”
He’s probably been working pretty late lately.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:37 pmQuick, someone wave a Benjamin under his nose. Works as good as smelling salts.
I do wish this wasn’t news here, as it distracts from the actual content of the discussion. People aren’t going to remember what Obama said and proposed, but rather what happened to Summers at the meeting.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:37 pmConsumer protection is a huge sleeping pill of disinterest for our corporate shill. I predict a ‘charge off’ by the Obama administration once tenure goes into default.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:38 pmThe meeting was just that good, huh? :-D
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:38 pmSummers is just another racist/bigoted/chauvinistic neo-liberal cabinet adviser to the almighty O. He deserves to fall asleep and then get pushed off his cushy chair…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:38 pmzzzzzzzzz………
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:39 pmonce his tenure goes into default.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:40 pmLarry Summers is a POS! He has the interests of his friends on Wall Street as his priority, not working people. President Obama would be better off firing this capitalist class toady.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:40 pmPurple State Says:
Quick, someone wave a Benjamin under his nose. Works as good as smelling salts.
Just like a hunnert dollar whore! LOL@!@!
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:41 pmDrunk?
LOL
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:44 pmI wish Obama would get rid of Summers….he is one of his worst appointments….he brings nothing to the cabinet.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:50 pmBet he was awake enough to endorse the credit lobbying cheques…
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:52 pmHe was very statisfied and very comfortable with what the Credt Crads companies are charging their customers….so he slept. !
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:52 pmOH NO – that’s just too embarrassing. This is serious business and there’s no time to be asleep. Summers – YOU’RE FIRED! No just kidding – dude needs to get more sleep. It’s not like he’s toiling like the rest of us out here on the plantation!
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 pmHeavy meal of beans might do that…
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 pmPurple State Says:
People aren’t going to remember what Obama said and proposed, but rather what happened to Summers at the meeting.
Case in point, the content of the meeting is nowhere mentioned in the article at top.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:55 pmIt would be nice to hear from the President that Mr. Summers can find some other place to nap.
Like leaning against the wall in the unemployment line.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:55 pmWhat nothing on Sarah Palin for a whole 2 days? Whats the matter WITH YOU PEOPLE.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 pmSummers was up late lobbying for the credit card companies. It’s hard working two jobs so ONE job has to suffer ……
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 pmThis is a good laugh. One thing about Dems’ meetings, they are usually colorful.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pmLarry’s nodding off could be a clue to the corporate class he serves. Is he saying this “populist stuff” bores me?
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pmInteresting. In our company, an employee is subject to discipline, up to and including termination for sleeping on the job or loafing.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 pmLooks like Larry might be doing both, multitasking.
While we all may get a good laugh out of this, it’s completely unacceptable.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:02 pm.
Well, at least Cheney wasn’t present.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 3:02 pmSitting in front of the fireplace always makes me sleepy, too.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:03 pmHe had to sit at the end of the table, so the photographers could get a nice shot. :-D
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:03 pmPalin needs to STFU and take care of her state and her nutty kids. Especially the one who had a kid out of wedlock – hypocrites!
There Palin mentioned ……
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:04 pmWell, if they could afford to serve some damn coffee…
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jeff2001 Says:
What nothing on Sarah Palin for a whole 2 days? Whats the matter WITH YOU PEOPLE.
Hear hear! I could also go with a Limbaugh thread today. That often leads to some fun.
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Hope Says:
This is a good laugh. One thing about Dems’ meetings, they are usually colorful.
Oh, I’m sure the R’s meetings are extremely colorful. The difference is they do them behind closed doors and off the record.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:05 pmPhotographers had a field day.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=86168542#1
Yes, they did!
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:05 pmHey he could be on medication that makes one sleepy.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 pmHe was probably just pretending to be asleep so his banking buddies don’t get pissed at him.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:07 pmEnhanced concentration technique.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:07 pm“Larry Summers falls asleep during Obama’s meeting with credit card executives.”
Yeah, the media will have a field day with Summers falling asleep. But, no word from media when Supreme Leader Dick was caught falling asleep on several occasions at Bush’s meetings.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pmMeeting interfering with your afternoon nap, Larry? WHo do you think you are, Dick Cheney?
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 pmjeff2001 Says:
What nothing on Sarah Palin for a whole 2 days? Whats the matter WITH YOU PEOPLE.
Sarah who?
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:18 pmStealing more money from the Tax payers is not exiting anymore… There was no civil unrest, no one surrounded the WH or Congress and people took it quite gently… so a meeting devising more ‘cash for us not for them’, is quite quite boring…
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:22 pmsacopenapa Says:
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Stealing more money from the Tax payers is not exiting anymore… There was no civil unrest, no one surrounded the WH or Congress and people took it quite gently… so a meeting devising more ‘cash for us not for them’, is quite quite boring…
Those poor poor 5%s paying more, oh the humanity. Under obama they will only be able to own 8 private jets instead of 10. Damn socialists!
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:30 pmHeavy meal of beans might do that…
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm.
By him or by others? Just askin’ . . .
sacopenapa Says:
Stealing more money from the Tax payers is not exiting anymore…
Requiring appropriate taxes due to be paid is not “stealing.” Quit trying to cheat the system on my dime, ya lazy bum.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:42 pmI fell asleep reading this.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 pmamanda, of course, doesn’t like him! ; )
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pmI call hangover
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:58 pmGame of Life Says:
Hey he could be on medication that makes one sleepy.
Xisithrus Says:
I call hangover
I call one a euphemism for the other.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 pmSo friggin what.
You don’t have anything better to do than to be Drudge / Malkin Jr here at TP??? I’m tired, too, and almost fell asleep in a meeting this week, too.
Gimme a break.
We need coverage & action of the radical righties trying to push their agendas over us …
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pmI guess Summers might have had more than an ordinary night last night that didn’t end with a bottle of scotch, a sock and nodding off in a slightly peaceful/drunken fashion.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:26 pmI can’t blame him. I keep C-Span on all night and Obama’s voice always puts me to sleep. I feel safe, secure, and soothed especially after the last eight years.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 pmVikki in Oregon Says:
I can’t blame him. I keep C-Span on all night and Obama’s voice always puts me to sleep. I feel safe, secure, and soothed especially after the last eight years.
So you use the conservative call-in’s in the morning as a loud-as-can-be alarm clock? :)
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pmIn his defense, he’s probably not getting a lot of sleep lately.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:12 pmherecomestheangst Says:
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:39 pmSo you use the conservative call-in’s in the morning as a loud-as-can-be alarm clock? :)
How did you know? Washington Journal is my alarm clock. But at least sane people call in also. Tried watching Morning Joe. He just kept making me pissed off.
Who does Summers think he is, Cheney?
Frankly, this is embarrassing, and if he felt that tired, then he needed to grab some Red Bull – but this display should warrant a private conversation with the president.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 pmCome on everyone!
We’re HUMANS. Terribly flawed and we all make mistakes! I think it’s great that TP pokes fun at it. We expect perfection, which isn’t possible, especially in today’s bright 24 hour spotlight.
OT: Go Sharks!
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:43 pmMaybe he should get some tea. I like coffee.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:46 pmThey’ve all been working hard in these crucial first 100 days! I think this new political environment provides a great opportunity to address crucial issues that have been forgotten. The U.S. should be doing way more to address the Millennium Development Goals. The plan to end world hunger has been getting seriously ignored.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.
(source: borgenproject.org.)
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:48 pmThis man was NOT sleeping. He was ruining highly complex and complicated mathematical equations conjured up by turbo tax cheat Tim Geithner through his mind calculating how much longer he needed this silly job so he could retire to the Hampton’s. Which was much more important than anything anyone else in the meeting would have to say.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 pmGood one slappy,
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:41 pmNo surprise here, just another o’messiah appointee. When they aren’t paying taxes, spewing DNA over the oval office, stealing files out of dead friends offices and destroying evidence against their husband, water boarding or driving off bridges killing people…. they sleep. Besides o, must be asleep too, or he just doesn’t listen very well.
Either way, we get screwed
And how much does Summers get paid for his (sleeping) services?
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:58 pmWe can only hope that the whole lot of Commies in charge right now fall asleep for the next 3.5 years…
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:07 pmI guess there are only so many “economic central planning meetings” one can go to before the boredom hits.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:09 pmHey Tenisci….
“They’ve all been working hard in these crucial first 100 days! I think this new political environment provides a great opportunity to address crucial issues that have been forgotten. The U.S. should be doing way more to address the Millennium Development Goals. The plan to end world hunger has been getting seriously ignored.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.”
That defense budget is what’s keeping this country safe. The U.S. is already supporting most of the world. If we stopped giving food aid, over 100 countries would go hungry immediately. Maybe some other wealthy countries should step it up a little.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:10 pmdemorat Says:
When they aren’t paying taxes, spewing DNA over the oval office, stealing files out of dead friends offices and destroying evidence against their husband, water boarding…
Let me just maek sure I have this straight, (slappy’s other account) – you believe that the Democrats are responsible for waterboarding?
Wow, you must have an educated informed opinion worth listening to.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:50 pmgatorman Says:
That defense budget is what’s keeping this country safe.
Correct. As long as we keep slush-funding half of it off to Dick Cheney’s offshore account, he won’t destroy the world with his moon laser.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:52 pmProbably dreaming of the tens of millions he’s going to rake in from his Wall Street pals for services already rendered when he leaves office.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 pmdrunken Irish whackjob…
April 24th, 2009 at 12:09 amI try to impart to my students the following: when you are second chair at a deposition, keep your hands on the table. That way, when you fall asleep, your hands and pen will not fall to the floor. You may be able to recover without anyone noticing.
April 24th, 2009 at 12:10 amWasn’t Summers Clinton’s Treasury Secretary when the Financial Services Modernization act was passed?
Now he’s Obama’s economic adviser?
His deregulation was the prime cause of the bubble and consequent economic meltdown, and now he has a chance to ‘fix’ the economy again?
I’m just a blue collar guy, but where I come from if you screw up the job that bad, you don’t usually get another chance to run the show. In fact, they’ll probably take away your tools so you don’t hurt yourself.
April 24th, 2009 at 11:19 amFire his incompetent ass.
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