Posted on 09/23/2010 12:31:53 PM PDT by mojito
In his nearly two years in office, President Obama has relied on a very small clique of advisers that serves as his most trusted sounding board on politics and policy.
Members of his staff describe Obama as wary of outsiders and reluctant to widen his inner circle. As one of his advisers bluntly put it, the president "doesn't like new people."
Like it or not, he will soon be surrounded by them as an expected staff shuffle will deprive Obama of two of his closest aides and an influx of replacements will take their places within the West Wing.
The inner circle - Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, senior advisers David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, press secretary Robert Gibbs and Vice President Biden - is breaking up, or at least breaking open. Emanuel is widely expected to run for mayor of Chicago, and Axelrod is likely to leave this spring to prepare for Obama's 2012 reelection effort.
Obama will soon lose other top advisers. His chief economic adviser, Lawrence H. Summers, announced that he will return to Harvard, where he is a professor; Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina is expected to join Axelrod in Chicago; and national security adviser James L. Jones is said to want out by the end of the year.
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I hear Tokyo Rove is looking for work.
Osama bin laden will be grateful to a fellow Mooslum if he was appointed by the Won.
Iceberg dead ahead, Captain!......................
“As one of his advisers bluntly put it, the president “doesn’t like new people.”
If only the voters had felt that way in 2008...
I didn’t agree with McCain on many issues, but at this juncture one would have to be insane to claim he would have (or could have) been worse than BHO. So just as it was a disaster for Republicans to hand the nomination to another aging war hero in 1996 on grounds he’d stuck around long enough to be entitled to it, I think making McCain the standard-bearer in 2008 was most unwise. But I held my nose and voted for him anyway. I wish many more voters had done the same.
LOL! Good carton!!!
Of course he doesn't like new people. He doesn't know if he can trust them to keep his secrets.
When you are running a con, trust is everything.
His downfall (what a sweet dream that is) might be that he simply runs out of sycophants (or in his case psychophants).
Absolutely, he has to limit the number of people who know his “truth”.
Maybe they chose that avenue rather than a sexual lawsuit against mac daddy for being to touchy/touchy with them.
And a McCain win would have cemented the GOP's move to the Left and kept the rotting, putrid innards of the party under the thin veneer of a pyrrhic victory. Moreover, the McCain loss gave us an unparalled opportunity to see what liberals would do given their overwhelming majorities in Congress. It has galvanized conservatives as never before. We would never have had the Tea Party movement. It would still be politics as usual. Bush guaranteed an Obama victory. No matter who the Reps nominated would have won. McCain was the worst of all candidates.
It would be hard for the next bunch of buffoons to be worse. With odumbo all is possible though
Jenny Granholm is going to be looking for a job soon.
She was his financial advisor on his transition team.
White House shuffle?.....
Bull crap!...It’s a Chinese fire drill!
every administration, every midterm.
Odd career choice for someone who doesn’t like new people.
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