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The Valerie Jarrett Story. Named senior Obama White House advisor
Chicago Sun Times ^ | Nov. 15, 2008 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 11/16/2008 12:45:32 PM PST by FocusNexus

In Obama's White House, Jarrett will be a senior adviser and assistant to the president for intergovernment relations and public liaison.

Jarrett, who turned 52 Friday, gets a portfolio that will allow her to advise the Obamas while overseeing the administration's relations with other elected officials, traditional interest groups and the "movement" that Obama nurtured during his presidential campaign and wants to keep alive during his tenure.

She enters the White House battle tested as a veteran of eight years in Chicago's City Hall, most under Mayor Daley, rising to planning and development commissioner.

But Jarrett "wasn't happy with private practice," Judd Miner recalled Friday, ". . . and she wanted to get involved in the Washington administration." The corporation counsel under the late Mayor Harold Washington, Miner recruited Jarrett to the city's Law Department.

A few years later, back in private practice, Miner would make another recruiting coup: a young Harvard Law School graduate named Barack Obama. And over at City Hall, Jarrett, Daley's deputy chief of staff, would hire another lawyer fleeing corporate life, Michelle Robinson, Obama's then-fiancee.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bho2008; democrat; democrats; jarrett; obama; rezko; valeriejarrett
Change? Sounds more like Obama is appointing his old cronies.
1 posted on 11/16/2008 12:45:33 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus
Joy.
Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett Linked to Real Estate Scandals
2 posted on 11/16/2008 12:47:21 PM PST by BGHater (The GOP, the new DNC.)
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To: FocusNexus

Yeah, but is she “historical?” The “voters” in this country are more interested in “making history” than anything else.


3 posted on 11/16/2008 12:47:50 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I voted for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: FocusNexus

So...she rose to “planning and development commissioner” under Daley.....what are/were her successes?


4 posted on 11/16/2008 12:51:35 PM PST by goodnesswins (CONSERVATIVES....saving America's A** whether you like it or not!)
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To: FocusNexus; All
Her understanding of administration by Hussein the magnificent is to "take power and begin to RULE..."

27 seconds into the clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Nlq80DVpo


5 posted on 11/16/2008 12:55:13 PM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Oh, they will make history all right, as the administration that destroyed the US, turning into the USSA (United Socialist States of America) and destroyed the economy of the US by the untenable environmental regulations. Even communist countries had/have a lot more sense, they are exploring their ownnatural resources, such as oil, coal, gas and use nuclear energy - all of which Obama wants to practically ban.

Get ready to go hunting (with a club) and gathering, to keep the environment “pure”.


6 posted on 11/16/2008 12:55:51 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus

Chicago osamahussein mafia reached the WH


7 posted on 11/16/2008 1:06:15 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: FocusNexus

Voted for Obama. This is what they got. Slum Lords.....


8 posted on 11/16/2008 2:10:34 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: goodnesswins
>>>...what are/were her successes?<<<

I'll bet her accomplishments are at least on a par with Obama's....ie: ziltch, zip, nada!

...rumor; she is writing a memoir so she will have one accomplishment on a par with Obama.

9 posted on 11/16/2008 2:20:46 PM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: FocusNexus

When do we get to see how she answered the 63 questions?


10 posted on 11/16/2008 2:58:32 PM PST by depressed in 06 (Zero is president elect equates to I have no president elect.)
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To: FocusNexus
Not related to Greg Jarrett, I hope.
11 posted on 11/16/2008 3:42:14 PM PST by Guenevere
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