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Obama’s Friends Form Strategy to Stay Close
ny times ^ | December 13, 2008 | JODI KANTOR

Posted on 11/09/2011 8:39:07 AM PST by george76

Barack Obama’s three closest friends — Valerie Jarrett, Martin Nesbitt and Dr. Eric Whitaker — sat down in the study of Mr. Nesbitt’s house in Chicago for one of their increasingly frequent heart-to-hearts.

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In the presidential campaign, the Obamas had a “no new friends” rule, surrounding themselves with a coterie of familiar faces. Even if the Obamas lift that rule in Washington, newcomers are unlikely to replicate the intensity of this group’s ties, formed over more than a decade

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They vacationed together: in December, with the Obamas in Hawaii; in August, with Ms. Jarrett on Martha’s Vineyard. Mr. Nesbitt’s wife, Dr. Anita Blanchard, delivered nearly all the children, and the adults became their godparents.

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The ride could be painful at times. Dr. Whitaker, a member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, had to watch a yearlong falling-out between his best friend and his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. The doctor and Ms. Jarrett have become minor figures in two corruption scandals (Dr. Whitaker with the one involving the real-estate developer Antoin Rezko, Ms. Jarrett with the one involving the Illinois governor, Rod R. Blagojevich).

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antoinrezko; ericwhitaker; jarrett; martinnesbitt; nesbitt; rezko; valeriejarrett; whitaker
from way back
1 posted on 11/09/2011 8:39:09 AM PST by george76
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To: george76

Like I give a fat, smelly Obama about what these creeps do.

How about a time machine so we can book ‘em all on the Titanic?


2 posted on 11/09/2011 8:41:39 AM PST by Da Coyote (Liberalism - when you absolutely, positively have no ability to produce wealth.)
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To: george76

How about housing them in the same correctional facility.


3 posted on 11/09/2011 8:45:14 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: george76; All

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t Hussein trying to make Valerie Jarrett his successor in the Senate? But Blagovich wasn’t playing...and look what happened to him.

Hussein’s cult destroys the lives of people: good people, bad people, Republicans, Democrats, rich, poor, doesn’t matter.

The cult will ruin you in the end if you don’t obey.

The stakes are very high for 2012. Whoever we Republicans have as a nominee, they MUST win.

363 days.


4 posted on 11/09/2011 8:45:51 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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