Friday, January 07, 2011 10:47:20 AM · by Nachum · 18 replies
The Telegraph ^ | 1/7/11 | Toby Harnden
Posted on 01/07/2011 10:04:16 AM PST by Sub-Driver
New chief of staff says he did not push Robert Gibbs out of White House By Sam Youngman - 01/07/11 12:17 PM ET
Bill Daley, President Obama's new chief of staff, said Friday that reports he pushed press secretary Robert Gibbs out of the White House are untrue.
A story in the London Telegraph, which was also linked on the Drudge Report, said Daley would not come to work if Gibbs was allowed to stay in the White House as a chief adviser.
But Daley said in a statement that Gibbs's name "never, ever came up once in any discussion I had with the president or staff about me coming to the White House."
"In my view, he has done a great job as press secretary for President Obama, and I look forward to working with him as he continues to help provide advice to the president and our team over the next two years," Daley said.
Gibbs announced earlier this week that he is stepping down from the podium in February, but he will continue to advise and advocate for Obama.
He didn’t push him out. He kicked him out. That’s different.
Right! And I believe him....NOT!
The fatal flaw in this story is that it assumes a Daley can be taken at his word.
He pulled him out.
Didnt Daley come out against Obama and his tactics months ago. He hated the way health care was handled and he said Obama was arrogant. Maybe it was someone else
I push Bobby Gibbs out every morning.
I pushed out a big steaming pil of Gibbs this morning. I need more fiber in my diet
Sure, I believe that.
Obama mouthpiece Robert Gibbs was forced out by new henchman William Daley
I wondered yesterday whether Robert Gibbs jumped or was pushed and noted that President Barack Obama’s words indicated that it was “not an entirely voluntary departure”.
It’s being reported by John King on CNN right now that Gibbs wanted to be a presidential counsellor – something he’s been putting about for quite a while – but William Daley, the new chief of staff, nixed this because he believed that too many cooks would spoil the presidential broth. So that’s why Gibbs is out.
Additionally, King reports that Valerie Jarrett, whose sole qualification to being a senior counsellor seems to be that she’s a long-time Chicago buddy of Barack and Michelle Obama, will have her wings clipped. Daley, not Jarrett, will be the person speaking to the business community.
It’s no secret that Rahm Emanuel, a Daley protege, clashed with Jarrett. Or that David Plouffe, about to join the White House, was often at odds with her when he was the 2008 Obama campaign manager. Obama is nothing if not ruthless. He dropped Jane Dystel, the agent who approached him to write “Dreams from my Father”, and has previously cut loose long-time advisers. One aide described him as “the most unsentimental man I’ve ever met”.
So the next question is: with Gibbs and David Axelrod gone, how much longer will Valerie Jarrett last?
He wanted to keep Gibbs??? So he's a corrupt Chicago pol, AND a moron?
These are supposed to be the best and brightest in our most revered Presidential Executive Office??
And I thought Bill Clinton had reached the epitome of sleazy!
Civil? Classy? Professional? God help us all.
Obama’s words indicated that it was “not an entirely voluntary departure”.
What did Obama say?
So, he told someone else not the president.
How Chicago of him.
First official lie.
I am confused? Did they already vote for a new mayor in Chicago?
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