Obama puts National Economic Director to sleep

WASHINGTON, DC — House’s National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers was so captivated with plans to rescue the economy with Barack Obama he fell asleep.

Most people are allowed to sleep through meetings until they are fired or yelled at.

But not when you are sitting steps away from the Greatest American President of all time the eyes of the world are watching, even if you are staring at the inside of your own eyelids.

Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

He was the Secretary of the Treasury for the last year and a half of the Clinton Administration and President of Harvard University until he made fun of women’s math skills.

According to Summers, the preponderance of males in high-end science and engineering positions could be explained by the following: first, that more men than women were willing to make the commitment in terms of time and flexibility demanded by high-powered jobs; second, and controversially, that there were differences in the intrinsic abilities of men and women at the extremes (3.5 to 4 standard deviations above the mean), as shown by higher variance in aptitude, abilities, or preferences relevant to science and engineering among men (see Gender differences); and third, that the discrepancy was due to discrimination or socialization. He also stated his view that the order given reflected the relative importance of each of the three hypotheses.

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