[Doogle]

...the magnificent one HAS to appear in order to look
benevolent....it is HE who passes the ball to a child, thus completing HIS involvement. Little does the child realize the ever gracious one has laid at the child's feet, an enormous burden, all for the legacy of the Messiah. It is not about the health of children,it's about the governments involvement in every thing you do...it wasn't at a stadium,a park,or a playground,it was the White House.

[cushman]

Full court press to get O’s numbers up. The Oprah special, these types of commercials, anything to get Mr and Mrs O in front of independents. He's all smoke and mirrors, still in campaign mode and a perpetual PR campaign by Axelrod and his brand manager Desiree Rogers. All they care about it branding the O’s as likable. Incompetents running the show, she fired the person who checks the guest lists and prefers to back door guests in order to get more coverage on Bravo.

Diva in the White House: Does Desiree Rogers Have the Obamas’ Back?

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Perhaps such pedestrian concerns as guest lists have escaped the notice of Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary, whose job it was to plan and execute the Obama’s first state dinner. In an April 30 interview with WSJ, the Wall Street Journal’s magazine, she focused on using her Harvard MBA to “brand” the Obama presidency using the White House as its “crown jewel.” That may be good business speak, but it doesn’t translate as good public service.

Said Rogers: “You have to think about it [my job], in my mind, almost like a business. Otherwise, you never get there. You get caught in linen hell and flower hell, list hell.”

As they say, the devil is in the details. And if Ms. Rogers is not going to attend to them, she better damn well make sure somebody else does. A social secretary is normally a work horse, not a show horse.

A longtime Chicago friend of the Obamas, Rogers established her diva role in June by making quick work of Jackie Norris, the First Lady’s then chief of staff. Norris had been instrumental to Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucus. When Norris insisted on having Rogers report to her directly, not the First Lady, out she went—and in came Susan Sher, another one of the Obama’s Chicago friends.

The Obamas came to the White House with a Chicago clique that can sometimes act as though they made the president, not the other way around. Not that there’s anything wrong with having friends—it’s just that they seldom make the best employees, especially after you become the leader of the free world. Better to have your friends on the outside, where they can do you the most good, rather than on the inside where you have to clean up after them.

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[chemicalman]

Just what I got out of it. All about HIM.