President Phone-It-In


The comparisons to Herbert Hoover are apt, but at least Hoover was a reasonably astute man who additionally had overseen two major humanitarian efforts (postwar Europe and post-flood Mississippi and Louisiana). Collins, though, hits it spot-on in her description of the Chimperor:

...you [have] to wonder what the international financial community makes of a country whose president could show up to talk economics in the middle of a liquidity crisis and kind of flop around the stage as if he was emcee at the Iowa Republican Pig Roast.

And, I apparently thought the same thing as WIIIAI--Paulson's expression speaks volumes.