Who is Valerie Jarrett? (Shadow president! “Amateur” Barry is a sock puppet)
The Daily Caller ^ | May 22, 2012 | Edward Klein
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2887097/posts
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Excerpt:
No other White House official in history has enjoyed such a unique relationship with both a president and a first lady, and yet the mainstream media have ignored Jarretts enormous influence over the shape and direction of the Obama administration.
Jarretts official title senior adviser and assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and public engagement doesnt begin to do justice to her unrivaled status in the White House. She is Ground Zero in the Obama operation the first couples first friend and consigliere, the last person to leave the Oval Office after meetings, and the only White House official who dines with the first family in their private quarters at night.
Valerie is the quintessential insider, one of her longtime friends told me during an interview for my book, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House. She functions as the eyes, ears, and nose of the president and first lady. She tells them whos saying what about who, whos loyal and whos not. She advises them about who they should see when they visit a city or a foreign country. She determines who gets invited to the White House and who is left out in the cold.
In the White House pecking order, Jarrett has more clout than the presidents chief of staff. During the savage internecine warfare between Jarrett and Obamas first two chiefs of staff Rahm Emanuel and Bill Daley Obama sided most of the time with Jarrett, a classic limousine liberal who believes that Obama was elected president in order to engineer social change. Ultimately, Jarrett emasculated Emanuel and Daley and forced them from their jobs.
She has also been responsible for much of the incompetence and amateurism that have been the hallmarks of Obamas time in office. Indeed, Jarrett has been on the wrong side of practically every consequential issue to come across the presidents desk. Some examples of her bonehead advice:
Though both Emanuel and political strategist David Axelrod warned Obama time and again that he didnt have the votes to ram a comprehensive healthcare bill through Congress, Jarrett was among those who persuaded the president to ignore their advice and go for broke.
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