Indeed, the greatest confidence man of the last few years, at least going by Suskind’s definition, was not Larry Summers or Timothy Geithner, but Barack Obama. Being a confidence man is almost in the job description of the insurgent presidential candidate. Having not been president before, you must, by definition, ask the American people for a trust you have not earned.
Obama’s Flunking Economy: The Real Cause
Ezra Klein | New York Review of Books | November 24, 2011 | 4,573 words