Posted on 08/14/2013 11:04:48 AM PDT by smoothsailing
August 14, 2013
(Courtesy Artists & Athletes Alliance)
Sure, the most famous image from the day Osama bin Laden died was taken in the Situation Room, with President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden’s pursed faces clearly in view. But former Obama “body man” Reggie Love painted another picture from that day, too.
“Most people were like down in the Situation Room and [President Obama] was like, ‘I’m not going to be down there, I can’t watch this entire thing,’” Love recalled.
So the POTUS, Love, White House photographer Pete Souza and staffer Marvin Nicholson holed up in the nearby private dining room and played cards. “We must have played 15 games of spades,” Love said....
(Excerpt) Read more at redalertpolitics.com ...
I am thinking he must have gotten a rodeo clown to make that birth certificate...lol.
Yep...nothing but a photo op for Obama. It is all politics..all the time. Pathetic.
UCLA still has its article on the luncheon and the later Artists & Athletes event with Rggie Love.
Obama’s former aide shares glimpses of life with president
Luskin senior fellow Jim Newton, editor-at-large with the L.A. Times, interviews Love at an Artists and Athletes Alliance forum in Beverly Hills.
BTW: I haven't seen this mentioned in any of the Reggie-interview threads. Newton asked Love who Obama trusts the most. Love replied (paraphrase), Beside his wife, Pete Rouse aand Valerie Jarrett.
That comment isn't mentioned in the article.
“Newton asked Love who Obama trusts the most. Love replied (paraphrase), Beside his wife, Pete Rouse aand Valerie Jarrett.”
Caught that, too!
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/pete-rouse-white-house-95312.html
Pete Rouse planning to leave the White House
More on Rouse on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594875/posts
Must have gotten the call from WH to shut it down. Good catch! Peter Rouse...hmmmm. Would not have seen that one coming. Jarrett, yes.
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