Monday, November 24, 2008

Obama's first misstep

So I know there is about zero chance that I would agree with everything that Obama does, but this is a big deal and it seems too soon for such a big misstep. He had selected Lawrence Summers as the Director of our National Economic Council. Does this name sounds familiar to you? If you are a woman in science it should. Larry Summers is a former president of Harvard who was booted because of his comments about women in science which boiled down to they aren't smart enough to succeed in the field. (A little more information on the subject is here )

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yeah. That was mentioned on the TV news and I thought, too bad to choose someone with such faulty reasoning. At least most of the other appointees seem intelligent, well respected in general, and as thoughtful as Obama.

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