Romer, I think, it's a shame she was a decent academic,

He is as I've said all along ,'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' playing Alinsky,
and Cloward and Piven, like a child playing with matches or scissors, one endeavors to keep him away from both,

That is one explanation, the other is Dr. Westen is a fool of immense proportions, who didn't consider the enormous implications of elevating
this hack politician of sundry ways and meager achievements, and worse yet encouraged others in this hairbrained quest.

A second possibility is that he is simply not up to the task by virtue of his lack of experience and a character defect that might not have been so debilitating at some other time in history. Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he had voted “present” (instead of “yea” or “nay”) 130 times, sometimes dodging difficult issues.