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'The chief of staff has decided to be Bernie Sanders': Democrats slam Biden's top aide Ron Klain for dragging the president too far left after he promised to govern from the center
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 22 2022 | EMILY GOODIN

Posted on 01/22/2022 6:05:29 AM PST by knighthawk

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To: knighthawk

Kelly was upset that Trump didn’t do what he demanded. If Kelly wanted to be President, he should either run himself, or be Brandon’s chief staff.


21 posted on 01/22/2022 7:23:22 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: knighthawk

So now we FINALLY know who the puppet master is that we never see, but we know is running the country.

But others, who worry about their future, see the frog (Middle America) jumping out of the boiling water and now are naming names to get him to turn down the heat.


22 posted on 01/22/2022 7:42:04 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: knighthawk
Again, we have to get this information from foreign press.
23 posted on 01/22/2022 7:43:50 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: knighthawk

The books coming out after this moron is gobpne will be interesting.


24 posted on 01/22/2022 7:53:44 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: DownInFlames

Gone


25 posted on 01/22/2022 7:55:47 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: knighthawk
dragging the president too far left
***The prez doesn't even know what day it is, he just knows his butt is wiped. Of COURse he'll be manipulated by those around him.


26 posted on 01/22/2022 8:03:44 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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They don’t get it.

They (the puppet masters) WANTED the country to go ‘too far left’...and they want it ALL THE WAY far left. Absolute control, absolute power over every aspect of our lives. THEY say who lives, THEY say who dies, THEY say what we are allowed to do, speak, and think.

The only way to stop them is with...I’m not allowed to say it.


27 posted on 01/22/2022 8:08:51 AM PST by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: knighthawk

Liberals are not deep thinkers and they’re made more lazy by how they’re coddled by the media. The 8 year tongue bath the media gave Obama made them think they can always just deny there’s any problem in any context and the media will cover for them. But that was Obama, whom so many were duped into thinking was a genius transformative figure. They’ve forgotten that for all of modern western governance—— in this situation to have any hope of pulling out they need to admit some degree of problem and identify and fire a scapegoat. Of course it should be Klain. Instead they’re going to try to stonewall on the point that there’s any problem at all. Good. Stupid bastards. Let them deal with the consequences. To bad it will include the sacrifice of the free people of Ukraine.


28 posted on 01/22/2022 8:36:53 AM PST by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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No one who knows Ron Klain believes their is any truth to the notion that he is to the Left of Biden. They are two peas in a Leftist pod.

from wiki:

Career
Law clerk and Capitol Hill
From 1983 to 1984, Klain served as legislative director for U.S. representative Ed Markey (D–MA).[14] Klain was a law clerk for Supreme Court justice Byron White during the 1987 and 1988 terms.[15] From 1989 to 1992, he served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary,[16] overseeing the legal staff’s work on matters of constitutional law, criminal law, antitrust law, and Supreme Court nominations, including the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. In 1995, Senator Tom Daschle appointed him the staff director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committee.[13]

Clinton administration
Klain joined the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1992 and was involved in both of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaigns.[16] He oversaw Clinton’s judicial nominations. In the White House, Klain was Associate Counsel to the President, directing judicial selection efforts and leading the team that won confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.[16] In 1994, he became chief of staff and counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno and in 1995, chief of staff to Al Gore.[17]

Gore campaign 1999–2000
Klain continued to serve as Gore’s chief of staff following the official launch of Gore’s presidential campaign on June 16, 1999.[18] On August 2, 1999, Klain resigned from the role to join the Washington, D.C., office of O’Melveny & Myers, a law firm.[19][20] As general counsel of Gore’s Recount Committee, Klain oversaw the November-December 2000 recount of votes in Florida, which ended when the Supreme Court put an end to the counting and George W. Bush was named the winner.[3]

Lobbying
Klain was registered as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae until 2005.[21]

2004–2014

Klain prepping President Obama for a presidential debate in 2012. John Kerry (center) played the role of Mitt Romney.
During the early primaries of the 2004 presidential campaign, Klain worked as an adviser to Wesley Clark during Clark’s run for president. After John Kerry won the Democratic nomination, Klain became heavily involved behind the scenes in his campaign.[22]

Klain served as an informal adviser to Evan Bayh who is from Klain’s home state of Indiana. In 2005, Klain left his partnership at O’Melveny & Myers to become executive vice president and general counsel of Revolution LLC, a technology venture capital firm launched by AOL co-founder Steve Case.[3] At the time of his October 2014 appointment as Ebola response coordinator, he was general counsel at Revolution LLC and President of Case Holdings.[23]

Obama administration 2008–2015

Klain briefing President Obama in his role as Ebola Response Coordinator
Klain was one of the people who assisted Barack Obama in his preparation for the 2008 United States presidential debates.[24] On November 12, 2008, Roll Call announced that Klain had been chosen to serve as chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, the same role he served for Gore.[25][26][27]

Klain had worked with Biden, having served as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary while Biden chaired the committee and assisted Biden’s speechwriting team during the 1988 presidential campaign.[28]

In May 2010, amid concerns about whether the now-defunct solar-panel company Solyndra was viable, Klain gave the go-ahead for an Obama visit to the factory, and stated in an email to White House advisor Valerie Jarrett that “the reality is that if POTUS visited 10 such places over the next 10 months, probably a few will be belly-up by election day 2012.”[29]

Klain was mentioned as a possible replacement for White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel,[30] but opted to leave the White House in January 2011 and return to Case Holdings, where he oversaw Revolution LLC and assisted Steve Case and his wife, Jean Case, in administering the Case Foundation.[31]

On October 17, 2014, Klain was appointed the “Ebola response coordinator” sometimes referred to as Ebola “czar.”[32][33][34] Although Klain, according to Julie Hirschfeld Davis writing in The New York Times, had “no record or expertise in Ebola specifically or public health in general,”[33] the choice was praised by Ezra Klein for his bureaucratic experience with coordinating agencies.[35][36] His term as Ebola response coordinator ended in February 2015.

After his term as Ebola czar, Klain worked as an external advisor to the Skoll Foundation Global Threats Fund.[37] He also served as chairman, public advocate and private advisor for Higher Grounds Labs, which describes itself as supporting “start-ups building products that help progressives win.”[38]

Klain’s only problem now, as a diehard Leftist is he has preferred, like Soros, to be in the background, not the forefront and being a President’s chief of staff is possibly the least in the background he has been. If he leaves, it will be because he wants to move back into the background, being the handler for other weak people on the Left like Biden.


29 posted on 01/22/2022 8:54:00 AM PST by Wuli
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I doubt if Biden can articulate what he is!
And thats been true of Biden since Delaware infested the nation with him!


30 posted on 01/22/2022 8:56:29 AM PST by Reily
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To: knighthawk
The Puppet Master...


31 posted on 01/22/2022 9:34:00 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: knighthawk

ever wonder why joe does his speeches across the street?

joe to ron: c’mon man, let me sit behind the desk


32 posted on 01/22/2022 9:36:36 AM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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“I doubt if Biden can articulate what he is!”

I always saw him as a “made man” - made by stronger minds behind him, stronger minds who saw him as an empty vessel they could handle, even when it often made Biden look like a giant flip flopper, taking which ever side of an issue was politically convenient or useful. Many on both sides of the aisle, outside the Senate, always failed to notice that in spite of being a Senator since 1972 he was never the Senate Leader of the Democratic caucus - his Democratic peers knew him best.


33 posted on 01/22/2022 9:38:30 AM PST by Wuli
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To: knighthawk

Stopped saying he promised. He was campaigning and anything said during a campaign is a bold faced lie!


34 posted on 01/22/2022 10:12:45 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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