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Obama appoints his sister and Tom Brokaw to Fellowships Commission
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Posted on 06/18/2009 10:55:45 AM PDT by reagandemocrat

President Obama Announces Appointments to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships

Washington, DC – Today, President Obama appointed 28 members to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. This accomplished group of citizens representing a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and professions are responsible for recommending a group of exceptional men and women to the President for selection as White House Fellows. The commission will be chaired by John Phillips, a partner at Phillips and Cohen Law Firm. Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green, will vice-chair the commission. A full list of commissioners and their biographies can be found below.

"The men and women of this commission embody what makes the White House Fellows program so special," said President Obama. "These leaders are diverse, non-partisan, and committed to mentoring our next generation of public servants. I'm confident that they will select a class of White House Fellows that demonstrate extraordinary leadership, strong character, and a deep commitment to serving their country."

The White House Fellowship is America’s most prestigious program for leadership and public service, providing young individuals with experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. Fellows also participate in an education program consisting of roundtable discussions with renowned leaders from the private and public sectors and complete service activities throughout the year. Alumni of this non-partisan program include former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, and author Doris Kearns Goodwin.

"The White House Fellows program is so important as it allows for a variety of perspectives to come together to offer expertise and experience on important policy issues and then these Fellows carry what they’ve learned back to their own communities to benefit Americans far outside the walls of the White House," said First Lady Michelle Obama.

The Commission will convene this week in Washington, DC to select the 2009-2010 class of White House Fellows. The Commission will select 11 to 19 fellows from among the 30 chosen as national finalists; more than one thousand people applied for the class.

Additional information about the program is available at www.whitehouse.gov/fellows.

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KEYWORDS: bho44; brokaw; obama; soetero; thekenyan; whitehouse
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1 posted on 06/18/2009 10:55:45 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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From the release:

“Maya Soetoro-Ng:
Maya Soetoro-Ng, PhD. has taught and developed Humanities curriculum in public and private schools in New York and Hawaii for fifteen years. She also taught Multicultural Education and Educational Theory at the University of Hawaii’s College of Education. In 2007 and 2008, she campaigned across more than a dozen states for her brother, President Barack Obama. Her children’s book Ladder to the Moon will be published in the winter, and she is currently working on a book about high school Peace Education.”


2 posted on 06/18/2009 10:58:12 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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3 posted on 06/18/2009 11:00:15 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts....)
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Has this creep ever heard the phrase “Arm’s Length Transaction”????


4 posted on 06/18/2009 11:02:01 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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Or “Avoiding the Appearance of Impropriety”?


5 posted on 06/18/2009 11:07:14 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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6 posted on 06/18/2009 11:07:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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If these are MO’s words, she needs another writer - or an editor. :) Not so good for an Ivy-league grad.


7 posted on 06/18/2009 11:12:39 AM PDT by ElayneJ
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OK.
Add Nepotism to his other presidential and adult quest for a historically important statesmanship legacy. The teenager from the hood, in a suit, on a government credit card.
8 posted on 06/18/2009 11:19:35 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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Alumni of this non-partisan program include former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, and author Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Non-partisan. Yeah, riiiight.

9 posted on 06/18/2009 11:19:47 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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Increasingly, zero is making the US look like a small, backward nation.

How much more of a laughingstock will we become before he is done??


10 posted on 06/18/2009 11:20:21 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Henchster

A gaggle of flaming left wingers...


11 posted on 06/18/2009 11:22:46 AM PDT by Czar ((Still Fed Up to the Teeth with Washington))
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Does Obama's appointment of his sister or half-sister or whatever she is, violate the federal anti-nepotism statute?

see http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t05t08+208+0++()%20%20AN

5 USC Sec. 3110 01/08/2008 -EXPCITE- TITLE 5 - GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES PART III - EMPLOYEES Subpart B - Employment and Retention CHAPTER 31 - AUTHORITY FOR EMPLOYMENT SUBCHAPTER I - EMPLOYMENT AUTHORITIES -HEAD- Sec. 3110. Employment of relatives; restrictions -STATUTE- (a) For the purpose of this section - (1) agency means - (A) an Executive agency; (B) an office, agency, or other establishment in the legislative branch; (C) an office, agency, or other establishment in the judicial branch; and (D) the government of the District of Columbia; (2) "public official" means an officer (including the President and a Member of Congress), a member of the uniformed service, an employee and any other individual, in whom is vested the authority by law, rule, or regulation, or to whom the authority has been delegated, to appoint, employ, promote, or advance individuals, or to recommend individuals for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement in connection with employment in an agency; and (3) "relative" means, with respect to a public official, an individual who is related to the public official as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in- law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister. (b) A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official. An individual may not be appointed, employed, promoted, or advanced in or to a civilian position in an agency if such appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement has been advocated by a public official, serving in or exercising jurisdiction or control over the agency, who is a relative of the individual. (c) An individual appointed, employed, promoted, or advanced in violation of this section is not entitled to pay, and money may not be paid from the Treasury as pay to an individual so appointed, employed, promoted, or advanced. (d) The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations authorizing the temporary employment, in the event of emergencies resulting from natural disasters or similar unforeseen events or circumstances, of individuals whose employment would otherwise be prohibited by this section. (e) This section shall not be construed to prohibit the appointment of an individual who is a preference eligible in any case in which the passing over of that individual on a certificate of eligibles furnished under section 3317(a) of this title will result in the selection for appointment of an individual who is not a preference eligible.

12 posted on 06/18/2009 11:25:07 AM PDT by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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Is Glenn Beck on the list? LOL.


13 posted on 06/18/2009 11:25:19 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: DustyMoment
Increasingly, zero is making the US look like a small, backward nation.

That is because he comes from a small backward nation -- corrupt Chicago.

14 posted on 06/18/2009 11:26:05 AM PDT by Aroostook25
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Welcome to the new Venezuela. When will they change the name of our country? Have they decided what to call it yet?
15 posted on 06/18/2009 11:35:51 AM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: AJFavish

Nice find. Indeed, 5 U.S.C. §3110 was passed in 1967, a seemingly direct response to the Kennedy clan’s familiar power-play.


16 posted on 06/18/2009 11:39:53 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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Coming close to Zimbabwe status here.


17 posted on 06/18/2009 11:41:13 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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18 posted on 06/18/2009 11:43:44 AM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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His sister huh? Oh-oh. Nepotism raises its ugly head. Say, what about his brother, you know, the one that lives in a tin shack in his homeland? I’m surprised he was left out. And his Auntie....did she ever get deported? Or does she now have an office on the top floor of the U.N.?


19 posted on 06/18/2009 11:49:33 AM PDT by CanaGuy (Go Harper!)
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Okay, now what is the purpose of this new loony tune crap he’s thought up?


20 posted on 06/18/2009 11:52:43 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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