Posted on 09/06/2009 4:24:32 PM PDT by jessduntno
Valerie Jarrett Addresses the Islamic Society of North America
Posted by Hammad Hammad
Continuing President Obama’s outreach to Muslims, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett spoke at the Islamic Society of North America's 46th Annual Convention. The Convention, themed "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," brought together thousands of Muslim Americans to our nation’s capital over the July 4th weekend.
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) maintains that it is the largest Muslim American organization in the United States. It was founded more than forty years ago and aims to serve as a meeting place for people and ideas, while building bridges of understanding and cooperation.
In her remarks, Jarrett spoke of the importance of President Obama’s Cairo speech, where he emphasized that the United States and Muslim communities share fundamental values, such as justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of human beings.
She quoted the President:
"Since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic torch."
She continued by emphasizing that:
I will tell you, it is not always easy to identify American "Muslim" business leaders, scientists, artists, athletes, and so on. Not because there aren’t any, but because there are too many, and they are known for their talents and character – not simply their religion. This is a great thing. It is a reflection of the American dream, which is ultimately rooted in these values that we all share – values that are common to all of humanity. And just as we share common values, we also share common dreams – for security, progress, and opportunity.
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Sure thing, Dean, you little fruitcake. Van Jones said this at a rally on Sept. 12th, 2001.
"The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City," said Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, who also warned against forthcoming violence by the Bush Administration. "The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad."
Amazing pictures!!
It is becoming clearer why Ogabe has bent over backwards not to criticize Iran. Not that he needed any extra motivation given his own past but Valerie Jarret is Baraka’s Brain. They are both ISLAMO-COMMIE SLEEPER AGENTS.
I really, really hate this blatant historical revisionism based on a total lie. Unless you count "running the African slave trade for 400 years until the British ended it" as a cultural contribution.
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CHICAGO A NEWCOMER TO THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS HAS SEEN ENOUGH TO REACH SOMECONCLUSIONS ABOUT RESTORING VOTERS’ TRUST.
Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - Saturday, August 3, 1996
Author: JOE FROLIK NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
EXCERPT
Before entering the race, Obama said, he spoke to about 30 elected officials in the district, which includes the integrated, middle class neighborhood around the University of Chicago as well as some of the city’s poorest precincts.
“Not one asked me where I stood on an issue,” he says, smiling.
“What they cared about was, `Who sent you? How much money you got?’
His answers were apparently good enough; the party backed his nomination.
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AIDE BRINGS OWN VISION TO CITY POST
Chicago Tribune - Sunday, December 8, 1991
Author: Wilma Randle.
Valerie Jarrett `s temporary stint at Chicago`s City Hall is turning into
quite a long affair.
Jarrett, 35, was recently named by Mayor Richard Daley to head the city`s soon-to-be-merged offices of planning and economic development. In that role
she will have a wide influence overdowntown development projects, neighborhood urban-renewal projects and the city`s numerous business-development programs. Her appointment comes only a few months after she moved from her job in
the city`s legal department to serve as Daley`s deputy chief of staff. Those
two moves, coupled with the apparent meteoric rise of her star within the
mayor`s inner circle, have set tongues wagging at City Hall.
It also has triggered talk in the city`s development circles. ``Just who
is Valerie Jarrett and why did she get this job?`` people are asking.
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SNEED
Chicago Sun-Times - Wednesday, October 7, 1992
Author: Michael Sneed
Tipsville . . .
Dateline: The Hiring Line - City Planning and Development Commissioner Valerie Jarrett began cleaning house Tuesday (as per Sneed’s tip Aug. 25) by hiring Deborah Mitchell as her first deputy. The kicker: “Not only have I known her (Mitchell) for eight years,” Jarrett told Sneed, “but she was once my client!” Translation: Jarrett used to be Mitchell’s lawyer!
The addendum: Jarrett’s broom is just beginning its job. There’s more to come.
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SNEED
Chicago Sun-Times - Thursday, October 15, 1992
Author: Michael Sneed
EXCERPT
Tipsville . . .
Dateline: City Hall - Watch for City Planning Commissioner Valerie Jarrett to hire Michelle Robinson- Obama , an assistant to Mayor Daley’s former chief of staff, Dave Mosena, as her new point person responsible for monitoring the city’s major business expansion and retention efforts.
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KUP’S COLUMN
Chicago Sun-Times - Friday, August 11, 1995
EXCERPT
City Planning Commissioner Valerie Jarrett is hosting a private autograph party Saturday for Chicago lawyer Barack Obama , author of Dreams From My Father. Obama was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
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Commentary
Daily News, The (Batavia, NY) - Monday, August 26, 2002
a farewell to an old friend
EXCERPT
“It’s easy to stand on the sidelines and make commentary. It’s harder to apply oneself to bring about change in the world,” said state Sen. Barack Obama , whom Jarrett mentored. “That in the end was Vernon Jarrett ‘s legacy.”
They lauded a man whose parents were children of former slaves, who grew up in Paris, Tenn., during Jim Crow laws and went on to earn a degree from Knoxville College. A man who went on to work alongside W.E.B. DuBois and Langston Hughes.
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Gala revels in Chicago blues
Chicago Sun-Times - Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Author: Mary Cameron Frey
Once again, the Black Creativity Gala at the Museum of Science and Industry kicked off Black History Month with a stunning new exhibit, “Sweet Home Chicago: Big City Blues 1946-1966.”
EXCERPT
Michelle Obama arrived with Valerie Jarrett — and a shopping bag full of “ Obama for Senator” buttons for her husband, candidate Barack Obama . “Everyone’s always asking me for them, so I thought I’d be prepared tonight,” she said.
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STELLA’S COLUMN
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Author: Stella Foster
EXCERPT
WE WERE MAKING a joyful noise and dancing up a storm at Ebony/Jet mag’s Linda Johnson Rice and hubby Mel Farr’s holiday bash Friday. The party people included Linda’s beautiful parents, John and Eunice Johnson; radio’s Tom Joyner with wife, Donna Richardson; Johnathan Rodgers and wife, Royal Kennedy; U.S. Sen.-elect Barack Obama with lovely wife Michelle; Valerie Jarrett and Kevin Duckworth; WVON’s Melody Spann with hubby Pierre Cooper; Nora Daley Conroy and husband, Sean; Boeing’s James Bell and wife, Mary; ComEd’s Frank Clark and wife Vera; Starcom Media’s Renetta McCann with husband, Kevin; Bill Smithburg with wife, Maria, and Avis Lavelle and hubby Osekre Hoes.
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Obama riding momentum
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Thursday, October 19, 2006
Author: Lynn Sweet, The Chicago Sun-Times
Monday night, on the eve of his book tour, Sen. Barack Obama was feted by some of his closest friends and supporters.
Just a few blocks from his own house, the reception was at the Kenwood home of Barbara and Jim Bowman, the parents of Valerie Jarrett , who until recently was the treasurer of HOPEFUND, Obama ‘s national political action committee.
The guests — people who were there at the beginning of his 2004 Senate bid and some of his best donors, even comedian Bernie Mack — were given copies of The Audacity of Hope that Obama already autographed.
The invitation was sent out on behalf of Obama 2010, the war chest for Obama ‘s Senate re-election campaign — presuming, that is, if he is not elected president or vice president in 2008, a prospect that was the buzz at the party and increasingly in political circles.
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More important, she is fiercely loyal to the Obamas, whom she has known since 1991 when she persuaded Michelle Robinson to leave a high-paying law firm job to come to work on the staff of Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Then Daley’s deputy chief of staff, Jarrett reportedly assured Obama that his fiance would not be asked to do anything untoward.
“She is one of our best friends, somebody who is practically a sister,” Obama told the Wall Street Journal. “I don’t make any major decisions about asking her about them first.”
Jarrett traveled extensively with the Obamas through the long presidential campaign, playing the role of honest broker.
“I’m very frank,” she told Time. “I always tell them what I think. But that’s probably easier to do when you’re good friends.”
Her job title in the new administration will be White House senior adviser and assistant to the president for intergovernmental relations and public liaison.
Besides advising the president-elect on a wide-ranging set of issues, she told the New York Times, she will be the White House point person for state and local officials and will supervise the Office of Public Liaison, which she hopes to make a channel for government-citizen collaboration.
“The level of the engagement in the campaign was tremendous, and we want people to understand this will be their White House,” she said.
While lacking Washington experience, Jarrett has well-honed political instincts after years spent in the trenches, often playing the role of conciliator and fixer.
As a court-appointed overseer to the desegregation of public housing in Chicago, for instance, she negotiated between residents of several notorious housing projects and the real-estate developers who were replacing them with middle-income housing.
In her latest iteration, she was CEO of The Habitat Co., a real estate development and management company, as well as vice chair of the 2016 Chicago Olympic Committee, which is spearheading the city’s bid for the Summer Olympics.
Jarrett comes from a distinguished family.
Her great-grandfather was the first African-American to graduate from M.I.T., her grandfather was the first African-American to head the Chicago Housing Authority; and her father, James Bowman, is a pathologist who was the first African-American to receive tenure in the University of Chicago’s department of biological sciences.
Her mother, Barbara Bowman, is a child psychologist and co-founder of the Erikson Institute for child development in Chicago.
Her great-uncle, Vernon Jordan, is the Washington super lawyer and Clinton confidante.
Like the Obamas, she lives in Hyde Park. Her daughter, Laura Jarrett, attends Harvard Law School.
I'm 'burdened' by a personal history of prejudice against marxist activists, racists, and those that exhibit an unnatural zeal for slaughtering the unborn ...
That's why I was quite surprised that Barack could win (and sickened when he actually did)...
Acckkk, my eyes! my eyes!
Please post a friendly warning before showing pics like that again.
Got some mean-lookin’ mofos right there.
Yike-ola.
“I’m ‘burdened’ by a personal history of prejudice against marxist activists, racists, and those that exhibit an unnatural zeal for slaughtering the unborn ... That’s why I was quite surprised that Barack could win (and sickened when he actually did)...”
That, unfortunately, could make a grown man weep from its truth...
This is the alteration of our “traditions, culture, and HISTORY” that Michele Antoinette Obama was talking about recently.
She hired not only Van Jones,supported many of his beliefs and but hired many of the “czars.Take her out, the entire Obama machine will break down.She should be considered a legitimate target.
I like your handle name.
Golly! I feel so much better now...
After all, this is the kind of hysterical revisionism that all government school books teach..
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