Populist Reform of the Democratic Party
In reply to the discussion: Understanding the Corporate Welfare Giveaway known as the ACA... [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)That was clear the second he announced that Tim Geithner would do as he wanted to, because Obama claimed he had only studied up on the situation of the Two Wars, and that he knew "nothing" about the economy.
Obama's mother worked for the Ford Foundation, so he grew up inside a household where many things like a nation's economic situation would have been explained to him. And guess what? Geithner's dad was Obama's mother's boss, when the Ford Foundation stationed her over in the Far East.
So I guess that was one reason why Geithner felt, from not only an actual position, but a psychological position, the need to proclaim that Obama "works for me."
This was a statement G. made many times to foreign officials while attending meetings overseas.