Larry Summers Falls Asleep During Meeting Again

[Reform]

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1. is that any different than McCain (presidential candidate btw) falling asleep in meetings?

oh yes, one has and R and one has a D next to their title. I see the difference completely now

[mikehiggins]

2. Falling asleep

I once had a run-in with a boss and she was bad mouthing me really severely in front of several of my co-workers. There was little I could do about it except get into an argument with her but she was so adamant (and so wrong) there seemed little point to even trying. And then things went blank...

I woke up and found myself alone and out of a job ;)

For some reason the woman thought my falling asleep during her ranting was a sign of disrespect or something.

Well, here's a guy who is involved in one of the major crises of the last few decades and he falls asleep at the switch. It doesn't matter if he's a Dem or a Repuke, he's way out of line. You have to wonder where all this professionalism and wisdom is that justifies making him an administration official. What he has made himself is an embarrassment.

Truth is, I never liked the idea of his being in the admin at all. This is just one more good reason to dump him that anyone could recognise.

And, oh yeah. Let's not play the Repuke game by "politicizing" something like this by comparing it to McCain. Who cares what McCain does or doesn't do? The US public already let him know what they think of him, asleep or awake, and he doesn't (never did) work for us.

[Lancer]

4. In all fairness, he could have a medical problem

eom

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5. the reason I agree there could be another reason

I worked at a Japanese company where an older Japanese guy kept falling asleep in our staff meetings and it was driving me batty because I'm thinking, hey, this isn't fair. I'm in the meeting. I'm awake - what's his problem?!! Everyone just gonna ignore this? I finally talked to the boss, and he said 'it doesn't matter - he was in the meeting'. I was like 'WTF?'

Later, our office manager told me that this old Japanese guy had been working nearly non-stop, not even going home, trying to get our company some desperately needed work from new vendors because he felt if the company went down, he would have failed because both the company and he were Japanese. Of course I always left work at 5 and never saw it - outta sight, outta mind. So I get it that there always might be another reason that someone is showing signs of exhaustion. Here I was mad at someone for their dozing in a meeting and had no idea it was a sign of exhaustion by someone who was literally saving our butts behind the scenes.

Anyway, just wanted to share that.

[avaistheone1]

9. Then he is probably in the wrong job.

Summers should not be a key figure in our nation's policy making process if he can not stay awake at work and at key meetings. Maybe he should get a job watching paint dry, or something where the stakes of being alert are not so critical to our nation.

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3. Clinton dozed off on stage once, so he's a failure - I get it

[JI7]

6. good thing he isn't President

[spiritual_gunfighter]

7. I seem to remember the video of John McCain dozing off

all over DU with a lot of comments about his age etc. So I guess when Larry Summers does it he is "overworked" and may have a "medical condition". Dick Cheney dozed off in a few public settings and we raised holy hell about that as well, and he does have an actual medical condition. Not defending those people but the hypocrite meter is off the chart on this one.

[ExPatLeftist]

8. Please keep in mind

that there is only hypocrisy at play here if the same individuals made both arguments. And then that hypocrisy apples only to those specific individuals.

We are not a hive mind and should not be held personally responsible for the words of every person that happens to share our political affiliation.

This is what the GOP and Fox News do all the time - try to take the words of one "liberal" and pin those words on anyone and everyone that they deem a liberal.

I am truly hoping that our party will help to destroy such propaganda - even against the GOP - and logically allow individuals to be individuals rather than lumping them together based on a single trait - even if that trait is party affiliation.