A new book by Pulitzer-prize winning author Ron Suskind titled, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President will be published tomorrow.
It is a book about Barack Obama, whose author received extensive co-operation from the White House, portrays the president as indecisive, out of his depth and facing insubordination from advisers.
The book could not have come at a worse time for Mr. Obama. His popularity remains in the doldrums, he is struggling to implement a new economic plan and he faces a tough challenge to be re-elected next year.
More from the report at the link below:
Larry Summers, a former top economic adviser is quoted as telling Peter Orszag, then Mr Obama's budget director, at a dinner in Washington's Bombay Club: "We're home alone. There's no adult in charge. Clinton would never have made these mistakes." Mr Summers was US Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton.
Mr Orszag is quoted as telling the author: "Larry just didn't think the president knew what he was deciding."
Obama stated that "Carter, Clinton and I all have sort of the disease of being policy wonks".
President Jimmy Carter, who failed to win re-election in 1980, has long been a byword for a failed, out-of-touch, one-term president. White House aides go to great length never to compare Mr Obama to Mr Carter.
Publication comes as the White House is on the back foot over calls from James Carville, a former top Clinton aide, for Mr Obama to "panic" and fire senior staff after the Democratic loss of a previously safe congressional seat in New York.
The White House has mounted an aggressive operation to discredit the book, scrambling to obtain copies and contacting reporters to point out minor errors.
The author quotes Obama as saying what a burden it is to be President. I that why the President has set records for rounds of golf and taken so many vacation trips?
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