Posted on 03/26/2014 9:41:15 AM PDT by Dqban22
OBAMA’S RASPUTIN Valerie Jarrett’s Influence on Obama
Posted By Jamie Glazov On March 26, 2014 @ 12:55 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/jamie-glazov/valerie-jarretts-influence-on-obama/print/
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Paul Kengor, a professor of political science at Grove City College. His books include The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. His latest book is 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative.
FP: Paul Kengor, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I would like to talk to you today about Valerie Jarrett, her background, her relationship with Barack Obama, and her influence in the Obama White House. Let’s begin first with who Valerie Jarrett is — and her relationship with Barack Obama.
Kengor: Thanks Jamie.
Valerie Jarrett is President Obama’s single most important and influential adviser. No one else in the White or the entire administration is as close to Obama. She has been described as everything from his “right-hand woman” to like a sister and even a mother to Obama. To cite some mainstream/leftist sources: The New York Times says she’s Obama’s “closest friend in the White House,” his “envoy,” his “emissary,” and his “all-purpose ambassador.” The Times calls her the “ultimate Obama insider.” Dana Milbank says her connection to Obama is “deep and personal” and that she’s “the real center of Obama’s inner circle.”
Obama himself calls her one of his “oldest friends” and says “I trust her completely.”
As for Jarrett, she says that she and Obama have a “shared view of where the United States fits in the world.” She says they “have kind of a mind meld.” She’s says that “chances are, what he wants to do is what I’d want to do.”
FP: Ok, so that begs the next question: What is it exactly that they want to do?
Kengor: That’s a very good question. I think the best I can say, which is admittedly at times vague from a policy standpoint, is that both favor some form of leftist “fundamental transformation.”
In domestic policy, we can expect them to desire and pursue the kinds of policies that Obama was able to implement in 2009-10 when he had a leftist Pelosi-Reid Congress. The current Republican majority in Congress gets a lot of heat from conservatives, but at least it has slowed the radical push to the left that occurred under Obama, Pelosi, and Reid during those first two years of the Obama presidency. Those first two years were an Obama-Jarrett policy fest. That what an Obama-Jarrett agenda looks like.
So, to sum up, Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, worked with the literal relatives of Valerie Jarrett—her grandfather and future father-in-law—in Chicago’s Communist Party circles in the 1940s.
FP: Amazing. And it was in Chicago, of course, that Valerie Jarrett and Obama eventually met?
Kengor: They first met in Chicago in the early 1990s. During her stint as deputy chief of staff to Mayor Daley (the second Mayor Daley), Jarrett met a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson, who worked for the firm Sidley Austin. They hit it off. Michelle told Jarrett she should meet another young lawyer named Barack Obama, her fiancé. They agreed, and the rest is history. By the way, David Remnick, a top Obama biographer, reported that Valerie said of that meeting: “Barack felt extraordinarily familiar.” How so? She said that she and Barack “shared a view of where the United States fit in the world.” As David Remnick translates, this was a more “objective” view of an America that was not “the center of all wisdom and experience.” This was not an exceptional America. Of course it wasn’t.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud_yNFnfrSI&feature=player_embedded
So, in short, the meaning and significance of Valerie Jarrett’s close friendship and enormous influence on the president is an America that increasingly moves left domestically and, I suspect, becomes weaker in the world internationally. FP: Professor Kengor, thanks for your time. Kengor: Anytime, Jamie. I thank you, Front Page, and David Horowitz for your time and courage.
She is his pusher/dealer. You can get anyone to do anything in that position.
I think she is his “handler”. The Boss must be higher up than her. High enough that no one will look into Hussein’s background.
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I think the article is vague w/regards to her actual documented political views. I expected much more specificity that one would be able to indict her on; as it was it’s just too vague and gives us no real ammunition.
“As for Jarrett, she says that she and Obama have a “shared view of where the United States fits in the world.”
Obama 2008-2010 was all about domestic policy. But “where the United States fits in the world” screams “foreign policy”. Other than “US weakness”, the article sheds no light. What are VJ’s specific expertise, history, and views on US foreign policy?
More on Valerie Jarrett Here.
So much data out there and Obama still has an approval rating of around 40%. Absolutely amazing. .
I seriously think she is his “control”. He’s just a useful idiot for the US communist party.
No real ammunition? “Communist relatives” does not raise a “red flag”?
reminds me of diana from the original V only VJ isn’t even close to being as hot as diana was until her daughter killed her off in V2.
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