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The White House Boys’ Club: President Obama Has a Woman Problem
Time ^ | September 21, 2011 | Amy Sullivan

Posted on 04/05/2012 11:35:53 AM PDT by Arcy

Look at the senior women meeting with Obama in this White House photo at a dinner they called to discuss their invisibility. Look at their faces and body language. They are pissed off.

Coverage in the Washington Post...focused attention on the frustration of Obama’s female advisers. But the problem has been obvious almost since Obama took office. And while the explanations so far have blamed members of the mostly-departed boys club–Robert Gibbs, Rahm Emanuel–Obama himself is responsible for a work atmosphere that marginalizes and ignores women.

"...there were only 58 women in the 142 highest senior staff positions at the Obama White House."

Even when women are in the room with Obama, they are sometimes seen but not heard.

Christina Romer [former chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors] talked about the difficulty she had getting the floor in policy discussions. Suskind relates the story of how Obama reacted angrily to one suggestion by Romer, and yet calmly heard out the same point from Larry Summers a few days later.

These complaints will ring familiar to most professional women. And we know that the difference between temporary annoyances and an intolerable situation is a boss who acknowledges the issue and moves quickly to address it.

Even at the dinner pushed for by top female staffers so they could air their grievances directly with Obama, his reaction–as told by Suskind–amounted to an apologetic shrug.

The men who cut their female colleagues out of meetings and decision-making were his friends and closest advisers.

(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...


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KEYWORDS: augusta; bho44; club; obama; womensvote
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To: Aliska

What a group of hags! Bunch of dogs every one of em.


21 posted on 04/05/2012 12:07:01 PM PDT by albie
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To: Arcy
Even when women are in the room with Obama, they are sometimes seen but not heard.

Its the Muslim influence minus the Burquas.

22 posted on 04/05/2012 12:07:11 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Aliska

How come elena kagan isn’t in that picture?


23 posted on 04/05/2012 12:12:36 PM PDT by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: Arcy
I'm betting the closest he ever got to a woman was a t _ _ _ _ _ b _ _ _ _ _ .
24 posted on 04/05/2012 12:12:43 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan
Hmm. Now let's see... t _ _ _ _ _ b _ _ _ _ _



I'm not getin' it...





Oh, wait!

Turkey Baster! Right?
25 posted on 04/05/2012 12:18:08 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: Arcy

Chipper looking group. LOL


26 posted on 04/05/2012 12:29:24 PM PDT by BaylorDad (I can't always buy American, but when I can, it's not UAW!)
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To: All

Boy, they look p****d.

I wonder what he said.


27 posted on 04/05/2012 12:31:03 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: Arcy

Muslims do not consider any woman to have any say in anything. Women are below the value of camels, sheep & guns.

What part don’t you women in the White House get???

You work for a pig, then complain because he acts like a pig. DUH!!!

Not new in the workplace, but probably new inside the White House.

You are all drinking the Kool Aid, and have been for years. Now, you are finding out that YOUR Kool Aid is served in a Dribble Glass!!!!

No sympathy here.


28 posted on 04/05/2012 12:39:19 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: I Drive Too Fast

Obama is sticking his nose into another place in the USA where he has no business being.

Is there anything which will keep him off the TV for even one day? My TV clicker is getting worn out changing channels every time he shows up- even for 20 seconds.


29 posted on 04/05/2012 12:41:07 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Arcy

More likely a case of Queen Bee Syndrome.

Moochelle and Valerie Jarrett call all the shots.


30 posted on 04/05/2012 12:44:37 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Arcy
Do you remember when it was big news when Obama invited the first women to go golfing with his group? It happened after about 30 or 40 rounds. He had been receiving increased pressure to do it.

I would love to have a list of all the people who have golfed with him and when. I bet there were not many women. A few hours ago, I found whole pages on google about the first time he took a women golfing. I emailed one to Rush. Obama takes Melody Barnes, the president's chief domestic policy adviser golfing Now, all I see are pages of Obama standing up for women against big bad Augusta National. I had to go back to my email to get the link.

It is wild an wooly times we are in.

31 posted on 04/05/2012 12:47:54 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: az_gila
I wonder what he said.

He probably told them to take a pain pill.

32 posted on 04/05/2012 12:49:23 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Naah. He was floating a trial balloon about a special tax on AA and C-sized batteries.

It didn’t go over well...


33 posted on 04/05/2012 12:53:34 PM PDT by BrewingFrog (I brew, therefore I am!)
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To: Arcy

Looks like Michelle set the table, heh no food share one anothers burden yessiree!


34 posted on 04/05/2012 1:06:01 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Arcy

Looks like Michelle set the table, heh no food share one anothers burden yessiree!


35 posted on 04/05/2012 1:06:10 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Paine in the Neck

36 posted on 04/05/2012 1:19:18 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Nachum; Arcy; tomdavidd; Freeper; Gvl_M3; Flotsam_Jetsome; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; ...
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Wonder if this article will help explain "The White House Boys' Club?"

http://james4america.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/obamas-story-as-reflected-in-his-poem-pops/

37 posted on 04/05/2012 1:20:55 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Aliska

Mac Daddy, “I just want to be one of the girls”.

Women around the table, “What a f-ing a-hole this person really is, was and always will be”.


38 posted on 04/05/2012 1:22:52 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Arcy

He looks like he’s been put in his place. Valerie doesn’t look happy either. There’s a lot more going on there than women not being heard as the article states.

Notice that Valerie is strategically placed so she can manage that portion of the table.


39 posted on 04/05/2012 1:32:56 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Arcy

To be fair to the Kenyan anti-American Marxist Communist who is overtly trying to destroy the republic, it can get very tiresome listening to women in meetings.


40 posted on 04/05/2012 1:34:49 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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