The Vetting: Cassandra Butts - Bell Devotee, Obama Advisor, Judicial Scout

Breitbart.com ^ | 3/15/2012 | Charles C. Johnson

[mojitojoe]

The story of Cassandra Butts is an important example of how Critical Race Theory and its adherents continue to shape President Barack Obama's worldview and his administration.

At Harvard Law School from 1988-1991, Butts was one of the student advocates of Professor Derrick Bell’s strike for "faculty diversity." She was also a fast friend of Obama’s, whose career she has helped to promote from the halls of the Harvard Law Review to the White House.

Her role in the Obama White House is not a mystery. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. noted on MSNBC on January 22, 2009--shortly after Obama's inauguration--that Butts is “a dear, dear friend of the president” who “will watch his policy back,” and “will be willing to sort of reach out into Washington and sort of delve deeper and try to find some serious public policy answers.”

But just what sort of “policy answers” does Butts support? Her relationship with her mentor, Bell, yields some answers.

It was Butts who invited Obama to speak in front of the audience in that now infamous 1990 video in which Obama hugged Bell (Remnick 213), and it is Butts who is apparently pictured next to Bell at that rally. Bell thanked Butts in the forward to Bell’s controversial 1992 textbook, Race, Racism and American Law, for contributing research and editing. Obama later taught Bell’s texts in his own course on racism and the law at the University of Chicago Law School.

[newfreep]

IIRC, Seymour wrote the best seller, “Under The Grandstands”.

[Lazlo in PA]

Butts began her time in Washington as legislative counsel to Sen. Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania, and assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. She went on to serve as both deputy director and general counsel of the Democratic Policy Committee under then-House Minority Leader Gephardt, a position she described to The Washingtonian in September 2001 as being “Gephardt’s eyes and ears.” As Gephardt’s expert on information technology and judiciary issues, she became the Democratic Caucus’s counsel during the Clinton impeachment hearings. She also advised Gephardt in his 2004 bid for the presidency.

This nit wit Commie Pinko loves hitching her wagon to losers. Wofford got his clock cleaned by Santorum, Gephardt lead the House Rats to a crushing defeat in '94 and now she is with a President that can't get above 45% in approval polls. This broad is the kiss of death for politicians.

[mojitojoe]

I have scrutinized the stills from that video, enlarged them, messed around with them and I can’t be 100% certain but I am almost positive that is MO.

[maggief]

On the video, the hand movements with those ultra-long forearms are telling (00:11) ... and, of course that chin/jawline.

[mojitojoe]

Yes, and not only are her arms long, they are extremely odd, EXTREMELY! Her wrists and forearm are very oddly shaped and so thin they almost look as if she had polio or something, but her upper arms are big. The woman in the video has the same very unusual, almost deformed looking, arms.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[EDINVA]

“Never heard of a man named Cassandra before O.O”

My thought, exactly.

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe “ Quotalicious”...

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe “ Quotalicious”...