PHOTOS Larry Summers giddy with excitement after meeting with officials from credit card industry

Jackeens

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Thu Apr-23-09 02:33 PM
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PHOTOS Larry Summers giddy with excitement after meeting with officials from credit card industry

Edited on Thu Apr-23-09 03:23 PM by Jackeens

White House National Economic Council Director Larry Summers nods off while President Barack Obama talks to the press after a meeting with officials from the credit card industry at the White House April 23, 2009

As his boss spoke about creating a consumer-friendly credit card system Thursday morning, National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers fell asleep.

Summers at first appeared to be nodding off while President Obama delivered brief remarks after a meeting with credit card executives. Then he did nod off, with his head on his hand, then with his head falling off his hand, according to a pool report.

It's not the first time Summers has publicly dozed off on the job. He first fell asleep during a White House "fiscal responsibility summit" in February.

The pool report futher noted: All other officials in the room appeared fully awake.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21637.html

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babylonsister

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Thu Apr-23-09 02:34 PM
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1. Bwhahaha! nt

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monmouth

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Thu Apr-23-09 02:35 PM
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2. He will never live this one down...Bwahahahaha......n/t

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Zynx

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Thu Apr-23-09 03:24 PM
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3. He gets bored easily apparently.

In his defense it's always possible he just had a really bad headache.

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flpoljunkie

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Thu Apr-23-09 03:29 PM
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4. Mr. Summers' concern has been limited to people being responsible with their credit cards.

Edited on Thu Apr-23-09 03:31 PM by flpoljunkie

It shows. Obama's choice of Summers for such an important post is concerning. I do not trust Summers.

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FrenchieCat

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Thu Apr-23-09 03:32 PM
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5. He wasn't the one that needed to be listening in this case....

This is the pic that we need to focus on.....and understand who should be doing the listening.

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Thu Apr-23-09 03:34 PM
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6. LMAO

I've had massive hangovers that looked better than that.

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Historic NY

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Thu Apr-23-09 09:27 PM
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7. Health - sugar problem?

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