Libs Call for Firing of Valerie Jarrett

[Alyosha]

About time....

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/fire-valerie-jarrett-112659_Page2.html#.VF9k7_nF-b8

I was reading this and found it nuts what she was allowed to get away with and it also sort of confirmed my suspicion that Obama doesn't run the country, Michelle and Valerie do.

I think Billary was more of a partnership, Clinton was, after all, brilliant. Obama never came off articulate like Michelle, he can't freestyle like Michelle can, he requires teleprompters unlike Michelle, and compared to her his grades weren't that great.

Makes sense.

[Cigar]

WISHFUL THINKING :grin:

[Mac-7]

WISHFUL THINKING :grin:

If she is dragging obumer down then fans of the fuhrer should be the most anxious to see her go.

[Alyosha]

WISHFUL THINKING :grin:

I don't care if she stays or goes. I said it was LIBERALS who want her gone like Rahm Emmanuel wanted her gone like most of the press secretaries wanted her gone.

It's best for Republicans if she stays and for libertarians we think its all shit so more shit won't hurt, I guess.

[Redrose]

I said several years ago Jarret was big trouble. All of this falls directly in line with what many on the right have been saying for the past 7 years, Obama is the puppet president. He was selected to do the bidding of a very strong left wing subversive group of anti-American radicals.

[Cigar]

Barack Obama is The President of The United States and HE will make that call, NOT LIBERALS, NOT Emmanuel, NOT Press Secretaries.

NO ONE BUT The President of The United States

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Valerie_Jarrett_official_portrait_small.jpg

So Deal with it for the next 700 plus days

NEXT

[Alyosha]

Well duh Cigar obviously he didn't listen to anyone about her and now his staff is turning on him if you read the article.

[Cigar]

Well duh @Cigar (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=294) obviously he didn't listen to anyone about her and now his staff is turning on him if you read the article.

So they can quit ...

[Alyosha]

So they can quit ...

And they did. You do read the news occasionally, right?

Anyway from article:


Former White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was said to be another casualty of heated friction with Jarrett. In his new book, NBC’s Todd describes conflicts between Jarrett and Emanuel and Gibbs, and he adds senior adviser David Axelrod and Obama campaign manager and senior adviser David Plouffe to the list of those who had “run-ins” with Jarrett. All of them failed to persuade the president to nudge Jarrett out of the White House, Todd writes, because Jarrett held a “trump card” that the others did not—her close relationship with the first lady. Todd writes that “one advisor remembers the president sympathizing with a particular critique of Jarrett, but he made it clear that it was important that she be in the room, because it was important to Michelle that Valerie be in the room.”
West Wing staffers in general believed that Jarrett didn’t handle power well. Mark Halperin and John Heilemann report in their book Double Down (http://www.amazon.com/Double-Down-Game-Change-2012/dp/1594204403) that West Wing staffers “were scared to death” of her. Fear can be productive if the person wielding the power is accomplishing great things, but Jarrett was not.


Her undefined role combined with what by all accounts has been almost unlimited proximity to the Obamas has proved a bad mix. She seems to isolate the president from people who might help him or teach him something—and if there’s one thing that has become clear about Obama, it’s that he doesn’t get to hear enough outside voices. (According to Alter (http://books.google.com/books?id=PQR_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22We%E2%80%99re+not+making+new+friends.%22+jar rett&source=bl&ots=uXVenCwxPa&sig=KSf10WNWfPWXmR3JJzS2M7rdeBk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sD1dVIbZJInLsASvpoHABw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22We%E2%80%99re%20not%20making%20new%20friends. %22%20jarrett&f=false), she once declared that the Obamas wouldn’t be making “new friends” in Washington.)


Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/fire-valerie-jarrett-112659_Page2.html#ixzz3IamNoqGm

and


Jarrett wields real power on personnel matters, but her choices often seem based on whom she particularly likes rather than who might be best suited for the job. She reportedly pushed (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/locked-in-the-cabinet-99374_full.html#.VF0_W_nF-So) the president to give a personal favorite, Eric Holder, the attorney general’s job, then propped Holder up (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-survivor-108018_full.html#.VF0-TvnF-So) in the face of harsh (and, to the president, very damaging) criticism over controversies ranging from Holder’s “nation of cowards” speech, which accused Americans of racism, to the “Fast and Furious” quasi-scandal involving questionable sting operations run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (In doing so she acquired another nickname—“Eric’s appeals court.”) When Holder delivered his resignation speech earlier this year, he thanked (http://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/remarks-attorney-general-eric-holder-announcing-his-plans-depart-justice-department) the president, the vice president, his family and Valerie Jarrett.
She is also supposed to be the president’s liaison to business, which was “an effort that many in the West Wing believe she failed at,” writes Todd. “And yet they didn’t get why she didn’t pay a price.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/fire-valerie-jarrett-112659_Page2.html#ixzz3IambDAQp


So now we know who we have to blame for that mess Holder.

[Cigar]

Gotta Love Liberty Freedom and Choice :grin:

[Alyosha]

Gotta Love Liberty Freedom and Choice :grin:


Sure it would be nice to get those back. Send a message to the White House and ask him to keep his promise to repeal the Patriot Act, would ya?

I'm sure he'll listen to you.