Posted on 09/16/2011 2:17:48 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Top female advisers felt left out by a boy's club in the White House where rampant infighting sabotaged the administration's economic decisions, according to a controversial new book.
Sidelined and ignored in the West Wing, some women aides reportedly complained to President Obama about their treatment in 2009. In an excerpt obtained by the Washington Post, a female senior aide is quoted as calling the White House a hostile environment for women.
Confidence Men: Wall Steet, Washington and the Education of a President, by journalist Ron Suskind, is due out in the shops next Tuesday.
Former Communications Director Anita Dunn calls the work environment 'hostile' in the book, which she now denies having said According to the Post, former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn says in the book: 'This place would be in court for a hostile workplace because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.'
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In the world of Islam, women rank below camels & goats.
Faces of evil.
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,’ it’s still going to stink.”
The woman thing is just not that big a deal anymore.
A number of articles have come out in the past week either praising Hillary or attacking Obama in a way that promotes Hillary (i.e. hostility to women accusations trying to peel off some of the female vote).
Anybody think this tactic has a chance of succeeding? Does Hillary's decision to play on Obama's team scuttle her chances? Is there anybody else in the wings?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I never would have taken “Little Lotta” seriously, either.
Night of the Long Knives.
I think you are right, but for the life of me i don’t see how Hillary could ever be seriously considered. She has silently agreed with every decision he made.
Hillary is nothing buy an elderly white female Obama.
Trotsky vs Stalin. Himmler vs Heidrich,,,
her work as SecState has stunk up the joint . what does she have to run on?
You know those liberals, they'll believe anything.
no, she is incompetent
Ya done good, son!
anyone watch that pbs show “The Warning” about how these same guys treated Brookesly Born?
She was right - they were wrong.
They’re still wrong. Of course these women are wrong too.
Obama appointed both a camel and a goat to the Supreme Court to substantiate your claim.
Muslims treat women like dirt, so this is no surprise. But I bet Barry thinks twice before he messes with Chewbacca...
One big problem with this claim.
valerie jarrett.
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