That expression implies someone who is innocent and is sacrificed for the Obamas’ careers.
Sacrifice for 0bama's career, yes. Innocent?! Absolutely not - e.g. Rev. Wright; Samantha Power; Van Jones; Anita Dunn; Tom Daschle; there are plenty more ...
Posted on 03/14/2010 11:09:17 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Is the real reason White House social secretary Desiree Rogers was stripped of her power and "pushed" to resign that she was stealing the thunder of first lady Michelle Obama and first friend Valerie Jarrett?
You bet.
White House social secretary Desiree Rogers says she will step down next month, after presiding over 330 events in the White House in 14 months. Rogers, a friend of President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, is part of a high-profile group of Chicagoans in the Obama White House.
• It was Desiree who publicly corrected Michelle Obama in front of White House visitors when the first lady incorrectly identified the presidential era of a piece of White House china.
• It was Desiree who insisted on calling her bosses "Barack" and "Michelle."
• It was Desiree who was accepting hip invites, luncheons with the swells and dining and being drooled over by New York media mavens such as Barbara Walters.
• It was Desiree who saw nothing wrong in admitting to wearing Japanese couture Comme des Garcons gowns -- when the first lady was stuck publicly wearing American frocks. (Privately, the Michelle closet and jewelry box are filled with tres expensive stuff -- and not all made in the USA.)
• It was Desiree who was garnering as much publicity as her boss -- and loving every bit of it. (Remember, Desiree is the ego meter who placed herself in all the TV ads for Peoples Gas when she was the company's president.)
• It was Desiree who was not invited to Michelle Obama's recent birthday party. (Sneedscoop)
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Believe me, I've called him WAY worse than that. But neither I, nor you (I assume) works for the guy. You can't have the help calling him Barry, especially while in the White House. It undermines not only Obama personally (which I really don't care about), but it also undermines the Office, which I care about deeply.
It’s actually kinda pathetic. Desiree Rogers was no threat to Michelle Obama- at least not when it came to your average Joe. Your average voter had no idea who Desiree Rogers was. But the elites- the magazine publishers, the socialites, the movie stars did know. And this drove the small minded, petty Michelle Obama crazy.
That's it precisely. This is a cat-fight, plain and simple.
Looks like the last place entry in a quilting bee ;-)
That expression implies someone who is innocent and is sacrificed for the Obamas’ careers.
Sacrifice for 0bama's career, yes. Innocent?! Absolutely not - e.g. Rev. Wright; Samantha Power; Van Jones; Anita Dunn; Tom Daschle; there are plenty more ...
What a hideous dress! It looks like it was made out of an old nightgown and kitchen towels. I bet it cost big bucks too.
Is that for real?
DUH!
A tell ALL book coming?
Who was the social secretary during the W years? Was there more than one?
Yep.
Probably but she still has a bit butt.
Long before the State Dinner party crashers and the tension with her White House colleagues and the strain in her relationship with the first lady, Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned her to his office last spring to scold her.
Ms. Rogers had appeared in another glossy magazine, posing in a White House garden in a borrowed $3,495 silk pleated dress and $110,000 diamond earrings. But if the image was jarring in a time of recession, Mr. Axelrod was as bothered by the words and her discussion of “the Obama brand” and her role in promoting it, according to people informed about the conversation.
“The president is a person, not a product,” he was said to tell her. “We shouldn’t be referring to him as a brand.”
She was told she could not attend the Kennedy Center Honors, a major annual Washington event. And even her decision to finally resign leaked before she could secure a new job.
“It’s been very difficult for her,” said Amy Zantzinger, who was President George W. Bush’s last social secretary and has become a friend of Ms. Rogers’s.
After taking an apartment in the same exclusive Georgetown building as her friend, Ms. Jarrett, Ms. Rogers quickly became a hot Washington draw. She posed for a spread for Vogue and later accompanied its editor, Anna Wintour, to Fashion Week in New York. Within months, other magazines came calling, including Town & Country, Vanity Fair, Michigan Avenue and Capitol File.
Mr. Gibbs, the White House press secretary, had already canceled a proposed photo shoot of Ms. Rogers wearing an Oscar de la Renta ball gown in the first lady’s garden, officials said. Michelle Obama’s new chief of staff, Susan Sher, more closely scrutinized Ms. Rogers’s public activities, to her aggravation.
She managed to put on 309 events in 2009, compared with 231 produced in the last year of the Bush White House.
How burkah-like....
Don’t have to read beyond number 1. She was gone!
Pardon my typo....BIG.
Obama’s New Social Secretary Julianna Smoot Has Strong Ties to Norman Hsu and Was Obama 2008 Fundraising Chief;
UPDATE: Single Biggest Hsu Donation Went to Smoot’s DSCC in 2005
Smoot apparently has little problem with associating with unsavory characters, such as now-imprisoned Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu. The two were quite close, has mutual “respect” for each other as Hsu served as one of Smoot’s “most reliable donors from her tenure as finance chair for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.” Smoot aggressively pursued Hsu on behalf of the Obama campaign, as noted by the 2007 WaPo “$75 Million Dollar Woman” piece:
The NY Daily News detailed the various campaign fundraising crimes that Hsu was convicted of after his May 2008 trial, and at his sentencing (he received 24 years in jail), presiding Judge Victor Marrero declared that “Hsu’s dishonest use of political campaigns to perpetuate his fraud strikes at the very core of our democracy.” CNN reports on the sentencing:
Meanwhile, Jay-Z the rapper sits in the situation room...
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