Maggie's Farm

Barrister ... The White House is filled with academics, and academics are notorious for living in their own little protected universe. They can float all sorts of nutty ideas which have never been tested in gritty, real-world circumstances, and not have to pay the consequences of a bad business decisions. Heck, even if the idea turns out to be totally impractical, they can still make money out of it by writing a book about it and selling it to some credulous publisher. And other equally credulous folks will buy it. And maybe some young hopeful beginner in business will buy it, try it, and only then find out how awful the idea was.

As for Mr. Obama being called lazy, that idea was reported on during his Presidential campaign by a curious reporter who interviewed his fellow professors and lecturers at the University of Chicago. Their consensus was that he was a pretty lazy guy and never bothered to attend staff meetings. They didn't like him very much.

Marianne