But in order to get the full impact of the presence of Jarrett on the Obama team, one must take a close look at her team.
Jarrett has surrounded herself with some rather unsavory characters who appear to be more like ‘enforcers’ than ‘advisers.’
Meet Mike Strautmanis, Jarrett’s Chief of Staff.
Strautmanis is one of Barack and Michelle Obama’s closest friends, going all the way back to the beginning in Chicago. He has worked not only for the Obamas but for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
But here is an interesting tidbit concerning Strautmanis, in Jarrett’s own words:
Obama describes him as a “utility man,” and campaign advisor and Obama family friend Valerie Jarrett says he’s the person you call when you need help with a delicate situation.
“He understands the importance of the personal touch and that e-mails and phone calls are not always appropriate,” she said, talking about a specific example that she wouldn’t describe in detail.
“There are times when a face-to-face is just the right thing to do. He dropped everything and hopped on a plane.
”Dorning, Mike and Parsons, Christi, “Obama advisor worked path to key campaign role; Candidate like ‘older brother’ to fellow Chicagoan who works as liason in Washington,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 10, 2008
(1)Dorning, Mike and Parsons, Christi, “Obama advisor worked path to key campaign role; Candidate like ‘older brother’ to fellow Chicagoan who works as liason in Washington,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 10, 2008
While in Obama’s Senate office, he often worked as a pseudo-ambassador to important democratic interest groups such as unions and African American leaders...
And now meet an Obama mystery man that the campaign staff didn’t even know existed. In fact, nobody knew what he looked like.
His name is Michael Signator.
Michael Signator, a 50-year-old police officer in suburban Chicago, is paid as one of Barack Obama’s campaign staffers — nearly $50,000 during Obama’s Senate campaign in 2004; and $47,600 from March 2007 through August of this year — yet no one knows what he looks like, and even Obama staffers didn’t know he works for the campaign.
So just who is Michael Signator?
Although his job description is to provide “supplemental security support” and to coordinate the Obama family’s personal and campaign schedules, Signator appears to be much more than an aide.
The relationship between Obama and Signator is one of the most highly guarded secrets in Washington and Obama’s home-base of Chicago.
In fact, at first Obama officials denied that Signator worked for Obama...until it became clear that he was Obama’s driver and bodyguard during the campaign. But the extent of Signator’s activity on behalf of Obama is murky.
According to Politico as quote in Bitten and Bound:
Signator declined to comment on his relationship with Obama when Politico reached him by phone, saying he “can’t do any type of interview at all,” directing them to contact the Obama campaign press office.
According to Politico, the campaign press staff at first denied that Signator worked for the campaign, then discouraged Politico from writing about him. They declined to set up an interview.
There may be a reason other than security that the campaign doesn’t want Signator talking to the press.
The article hints that Signator is so close to Obama that he knows way too much about the President’s true goals and objectives to go on the record.
Let’s not forget, however, that Obama is merely an ‘annointed one’ of George Soros, MoveOn.org, ACORN, SEIU, and other Leftwing radicals whose goal from the beginning has been to dismantle America’s Constitution and its capitalistic society in order to replace it with a Marxist way of life.
For more commentary on other issues, visit my blog at The Liberty Sphere - http://www.thelibertysphere.blogspot.com/
http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m9d5-The-powers-behind-the-throne
Michael Signator.
Photo allegedly of Mike Signator, Vera Baker, who allegedly was the paramour of BHO and moved to Martinique suddenly, an unnamed campaign aide, and David Katz.
(Left Picture - from left) Chief Nuclear Officer Chris Crane explains control room operations to Exelon Director of Special Projects Rita Stols, Senator Obama staff members Mike Signator and David Katz, U.S. Senator Barack Obama
~~~~~~~~~
Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and Rogers are familiar Chicago names in Washington. But the Hyde Park neighborhood, especially the Lab School community, has also provided a bountiful harvest.
In addition to Kass, David Katz, the 26-year-old campaign photographer who has trailed Obama since late 2003—but declined to continue as documentarian in the White House—is the son of former Lab principal Lucinda Lee Katz.
Arne Duncan, a Lab alumnus recently confirmed as Obama’s Secretary of Education, is married to Karen Duncan, an Australian-born basketball player who served as athletic instructor at Lab for years.
Newly named “regulatory czar” and legal scholar Cass Sunstein sent his daughter to Lab while he was at University of Chicago.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan and inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander first met Obama during their days teaching in Hyde Park. And earlier this month, Susan Sher, a former Lab School parent and school board member, was hired as legal counsel for Michelle Obama (her son, Evan, is rumored to be headed for Washington, too).
Sher has been a longtime friend of the Obamas and served as an administrator, alongside Michelle Obama, at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
At least a dozen former Lab students worked on Obama’s presidential campaign, and some have been hired into the administration under Jarrett, whose own mother once taught at Lab.
The concentric circles don’t seem to bother Hyde Parkers. “I don’t think it’s the good old fashioned Chicago way,” says one Lab School graduate of 2000 who asked not to be identified when speaking about friends. “It’s more just talking and word of mouth and those you trust.” ~~~~~~~~ And 'who sent you?'