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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: txradioguy on January 13, 2015, 09:58:04 AM
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It’s high time the news media paid more attention to Valerie Jarrett. An old Chicago friend of both Barack and Michelle Obama’s, she exercises unusual influence in the White House as a “senior adviser.†Many in Washington believe that she is at the heart of the disappointment the Obama administration has become. They are unwilling to say so in public. But the evidence keeps piling up.
One who is isn’t afraid to speak up is Steven Brill, the author of a searing new book analyzing American health care called “America’s Bitter Pill.†Brill is a liberal and still thinks that Obamacare should have been passed. But in his exhaustively researched book (he spoke with 243 people over a 27-month period), he slams “incompetence in the White House†for the catastrophic launch of Obamacare in 2013: “Never [has there] been a group of people who more incompetently launched something.†During an interview on NPR’s “Fresh Air†last week, he lay much of the blame at Jarrett’s doorstep. “The people in the administration who knew it was going wrong went to the president directly with memos, in person, to his chief of staff,†he told NPR’s Terry Gross. But “the president was protected, mostly by Valerie Jarrett, from doing anything.†Although Obama had no idea of the issues until they ultimately reared their head, he still bears the blame, Brill said. “At the end of the day, he’s responsible. . . . The president, whatever we can say about him on policy and on giving speeches, as a manager, he failed. He didn’t know what was going on in the single most important initiative of his administration."
How important is Jarrett inside the Obama White House? Brill was able to interview the president about the struggles of Obamacare and reports that he concluded: “At this point, I am not so interested in Monday morning quarterbacking the past.†That must be one reason Jarrett is still at his side, in the same outsize role she’s held since both arrived in D.C. in January 2009. How outsize? Brill told the president that five of the highest-ranking Obama officials had told him that “as a practical matter . . . Jarrett was the real chief of staff on any issues that she wanted to weigh in on, and she jealously protected that position by making sure the president never gave anyone else too much power.†When Brill asked the president about these aides’ assessment of Jarrett, Obama “declined comment,†Brill wrote in his book. That, in and of itself, is an answer.
Brill isn’t the first liberal journalist to remark on Jarrett’s looming shadow. Jonathan Alter, author of a sympathetic book on Obama’s first term, reported this about Jarrett:
Staffers feared her, but didn’t like her or trust her. At meetings she said little or nothing, instead lingering afterwards to express her views directly to the president, creating anxiety for her underlings and insulting them, saying, “I don’t talk just to hear myself talking.â€
After Obama’s inexplicable failure to note the rise of the Islamic State and to deal with problems involving veterans’ health care, I wrote last year that “Jarrett appears to exercise such extraordinary influence that in some quarters on Capitol Hill she is known as ‘Rasputin,’ a reference to the mystical monk who held sway over Russia’s Czar Nicholas as he increasingly lost touch with reality during World War I.†After my column appeared, I ran into a top aide to a Democratic senator. “You don’t know the half of it,†he told me. “[Jarrett is] not only Rasputin, she’s the Berlin Wall preventing us from even getting messages to the president.†The aide is convinced that the lack of communication between the then-Democratic Senate majority and the White House contributed to the GOP landslide takeover last November.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396165/valerie-jarrett-obamas-berlin-wall-john-fund
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I think Jarrett is the reason that Obama is taking it easy on Iran .
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I think Jarrett is the reason that Obama is taking it easy on Iran .
And Cuba, Russia, North Korea...
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She does the job he was elected to do so he can play golf.
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Valerie is a big part of what got owebuma into the White House.
Hopefully history will treat her poorly.
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Valerie is a big part of what got owebuma into the White House.
Hopefully history will treat her poorly.
I'm thinking history will treat Obama poorly, Valerie will escape blame......ironically.
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I think Jarrett is the reason that Obama is taking it easy on Iran .
I think she is a flaming Muslim sympathizer who is an anti-American POS.
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a picture i saw of jeb bush and Valerie side by side and both all smiles speaks volumes about where the republican establishment will take us. a picture is worth a million words.
jctejas
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a picture i saw of jeb bush and Valerie side by side and both all smiles speaks volumes about where the republican establishment will take us. a picture is worth a million words.
jctejas
This is how Rome falls.
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I think Jarrett is the reason that Obama is taking it easy on Iran .
You're right.
Despite the information being easily accessed, most Americans are likely still unaware that Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran, and spent her first five years in that country. Like Barack Obama, Jarrett’s initial experience was not as an American, but an American/Muslim hybrid. According to an American Spectator report in August of 2008, the Obama campaign had initiated an aggressive program to hide Jarrett’s Iranian background. This program received significant help from certain media figures who were only too happy to comply with the Obama camp’s request that Jarrett’s Middle East ties were not made a public matter – even as Iranian.com declared Jarrett its “Iranian of the Day†that same month of August. Also during that same time period, Barack Obama admitted to the New York Times that, “I trust her (Jarrett) to speak for me, particularly when we’re dealing with delicate issues†and that he ran every important decision by her first.
Jarrett’s family history is rife with radical ties, including those of her father-in-law Vernon Jarrett, a supporter of such communist-American icons of the 1940s as Langston Hughes. Vernon Jarrett was the strongest link to Chicago’s Hyde Park environment that would be of such great influence on Valerie Jarrett, and then through her, shape both Barack and Michelle Obama’s adult outlook upon American and its place in the world. Again largely ignored by the media in 2008, Chicago’s Hyde Park was home to such radical figures as the socialist Arnold Wolf, an anti-Israel rabbi (yes, those do in fact exist) who had pushed for increased support for the terrorist PLO. At around that same time Rabbi Wolf was also deeply involved with the Chicago Communist Party. Mr. Wolf declared in a 2008 Chicago Sun Times interview of other Hyde Park elites’ excitement over the political potential of a young Barack Obama a decade earlier, declaring they believed to have found in Obama, “A guy who could sell our product, and sell it with splendor!â€
http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/the-ulsterman-report-valerie-jarrett-and-the-muslim-brotherhood/
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Reggie Love gave teh Messiah his Granite ... :popcorn:
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It’s high time the news media paid more attention to Valerie Jarrett.
Too little, too late.
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VJ needs to be porked by an uncut Redneck Heathen like Gator Monroe ... :popcorn:
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VJ needs to be porked by an uncut Redneck Heathen like Gator Monroe ... :popcorn:
I can't see how a comment like that is called for.
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Uh, Gator can see it , but hey Lesbians need love too ... :cheerleader2: