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Obama’s Valerie Jarrett: Often Whispered about, But Never Challenged
national review ^ | October 24, 2013 | John Fund

Posted on 10/27/2013 8:39:16 AM PDT by opentalk

Edited on 10/27/2013 8:44:39 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

President Obama's aides went to extraordinary lengths to uncover the identity of a senior official who was using Twitter to make snarky comments about White House staffers.

...What apparently intensified the campaign to identify the “snarker” was a comment about Valerie Jarrett, the senior Obama adviser who has her own Secret Service detail and appears to exercise an inordinate amount of power behind the scenes. Joseph tweeted “I’m a fan of Obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence upon a vacuous cipher like Valerie Jarrett concerns me.”

Jarrett, an old Chicago friend of both Barack and Michelle Obama, appears to exercise such extraordinary influence she is sometimes quietly referred to as “Rasputin” on Capitol Hill, a reference to the mystical monk who held sway over Russia’s Czar Nicholas as he increasingly lost touch with reality during World War I.

Darrell Delamaide, a columnist for Dow Jones’s MarketWatch, says that “what has baffled many observers is how Jarrett, a former cog in the Chicago political machine and a real-estate executive, can exert such influence on policy despite her lack of qualifications in national security, foreign policy, economics, legislation or any of the other myriad specialties the president needs in an adviser.”

Delamaide believes the term “vacuous cipher” that was applied to Jarrett stung so much because it could be used as a metaphor for the administration in general.

… Up against a court flatterer of that caliber it’s no surprise that Jarrett has outlasted almost everyone who was in Obama’s original White House team — from chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to political guru David Axelrod to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. All are known to have crossed her, and all are gone. As one former Obama aide once told me: “Valerie is ‘She Who Must Not be Challenged.’”


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
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1 posted on 10/27/2013 8:39:16 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Jarrett and Obama are ideological soulmates. Fellow travellers with a common socialist objective.


2 posted on 10/27/2013 8:45:21 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard
Martin Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and private secretary to Adolf Hitler. He was almost always at his Führer′s side. Hitler typically did not issue written orders, but gave them orally at meetings or in phone conversations; he also had Bormann convey orders.[1] He gained Hitler's trust and derived immense power within the Third Reich by using his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.[2] Bormann earned many enemies, including Heinrich Himmler.
3 posted on 10/27/2013 8:46:21 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: opentalk

Jarrett won’t go down as easily as Rasputin.

True Evil, is that one.


4 posted on 10/27/2013 8:49:23 AM PDT by digger48
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To: opentalk

She will reap what she cultivates, times ten some day.


5 posted on 10/27/2013 8:50:13 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: opentalk

Jarret has the goods on his homo proclivities, the identity of his real father, his college records, on and on.


6 posted on 10/27/2013 8:52:14 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Obama loves the USA like OJ loved Nicole)
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To: digger48
Jarrett won’t go down as easily as Rasputin.

LOL!

Yeah, it'll take extra implements, maybe silver bullets, wooden stakes, or Slim Whitman music.

7 posted on 10/27/2013 8:53:01 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: opentalk

Vince Foster and Ron Brown. The beast feeds on it’s own should it’s hunger be best satisfied from within from time to time.


8 posted on 10/27/2013 8:53:42 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: opentalk

I heard the Twitter guy who insulted Jarrett was tripped up when he was fed a false rumor by the Obama team and he mentioned it on his twitter feed.

How dumb can an insider be? He should have known once he insulted Obama’s puppet master his days were numbered.


9 posted on 10/27/2013 8:55:38 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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10 posted on 10/27/2013 8:57:16 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: opentalk
Related article

The President has a 'Valerie' problem

…Jarrett may be very loyal ...Unfortunately, President Obama needs a different kind of "gate keeper."

He needs one who lets "bad news" walk into the Oval Office.

For example,was Valerie Jarrett aware of that the website was not properly tested? Or that the problems were a lot deeper than a "glitch" here or there?

… Why is President Obama always the last one to know? My good guess is Valerie

11 posted on 10/27/2013 8:59:14 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Palio di Siena

She also knows exactly why Moochelle got bounced out of the Illinois Bar after only four years of practice and why the Mahdi later resigned from the illinois Bar. As of now, neither Moochelle nor the Mahdi is a lawyer.


12 posted on 10/27/2013 9:02:25 AM PDT by libstripper (Asv)
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To: Starboard

The fact that she has ties to Iran is a little scary to boot.


13 posted on 10/27/2013 9:03:41 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: opentalk
can exert such influence on policy despite her lack of qualifications in national security, foreign policy, economics, legislation or any of the other myriad specialties the president needs

What she lacks in some areas, are compensated for in areas she excels at. Marxism, Alynskyism, Leninism, Progressivism, and so on.

14 posted on 10/27/2013 9:03:47 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Starboard

Jarrett is EVIL and the one with the brains. Obama is just the puppet whose strings are pulled to do her bidding,.


15 posted on 10/27/2013 9:04:02 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (")
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To: digger48
He didn't go down easily, if I remember correctly.
What does one have to be to get a Secret Service detail? What is her official position?
16 posted on 10/27/2013 9:06:19 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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To: opentalk

Jarrett is the one that gave the ‘stand down’ order to those who were in Benghazi to help and rescue Americans under attack as Barack Obama slept.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/who-is-valerie-jarrett-is-she-the-one-that-gave-the-stand-down-order-in-benghazi/#ixzz2iwHlbDEE
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/who-is-valerie-jarrett-is-she-the-one-that-gave-the-stand-down-order-in-benghazi/#D3BHbVrHg5kY1X0j.99

A man named, Robert Taylor, was Jarrett’s maternal grandfather and her political background could be established with him, but in the 1940’s Communism was frowned upon and Mr. Taylor was involved in such Communist fronts as the American Peace Mobilization and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee. Now another person whom, was also a member of these groups and was a “mentor” for Barack Obama was the Communist journalist, none other than Frank Marshall Davis. Now here we can show a direct link to Communist influences to both Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett both of who had very close associations with Communist Party members. It was Jarrett’s mother Barbara Taylor Bowman who co-founded the Chicago-based graduate school in child development known as the Erikson Institute, which was named after Erik Erikson a notable psychoanalyst. In 1950 Erikson became a hero to the left by choosing to resign from his professorship at the University of California rather than sign an anti-communist loyalty oath as the school required. Indicative of the Erikson Institute’s radical political orientation is the fact that its board of trustees has included, in addition to Bowman, such figures as Tom Ayers (father of the former Weather Underground terrorist and lifelong Marxist Bill Ayers) and Bernardine Dohrn (longtime wife of Bill Ayers). Bill Ayers, for his part, called Bowman “a neighbor and friend” in his 1997 book A Kind and Just Parent, noting that his neighbors also included Louis Farrakhan and “writer Barack Obama.”

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/who-is-valerie-jarrett-is-she-the-one-that-gave-the-stand-down-order-in-benghazi/#ixzz2iwHYqAjN
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/who-is-valerie-jarrett-is-she-the-one-that-gave-the-stand-down-order-in-benghazi/#D3BHbVrHg5kY1X0j.99


17 posted on 10/27/2013 9:06:38 AM PDT by PLD
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Jarrett has the trust of M/M BO----Mrs O worked for Jarrett in Chicago. They both interviewed her for the WH job. They all speak the Chicago lingo----politics is an "investment." Once in office "return on investment" begins.......pillaging and looting govt agencies is the Chicago MO.

REFERENCE Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to deep-six a stealth City Council account that some aldermen used to put family members, campaign operatives and those with political baggage on the public payroll without detection until the Tribune exposed the practice.

The $1.3 million secret fund, which dates back decades at City Hall, is zeroed out in the 2014 budget proposal the mayor unveiled Wednesday.

The change, however, will save only about $6,000. That's because the money is being spent to create a council office of financial analysis and to beef up regular aldermanic expense accounts — which some aldermen also have used to hire relatives, lease office space from their own relatives and even lease luxury cars. (Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...

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THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD shortly after quitting his powerful WH job as Obama's COS, Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago.

Then Rahm announced he had magically "raised" $10 million for his campaign in "just a matter of weeks."

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

Ya gotta wonder how much Wal Street Rahm wired offshore when Obama put him in charge of the entire US Treasury. Read on.

CONNECTING THE DOTS: Obama's stranglehold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role

THE TARGETING PAPER TRAIL BEGINS: Soon as they occupied the WH, Obama and the Chicago con artists (a) took control of the US Census; (b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (the IRS).

THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

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Above all, Jarrett is The Enforcer---making sure Obama is properly adored and worshipped. If you don't worship Obo--Valerie's gonna getchou.

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Chaffetz: Jarrett has 'tentacles' in every issue at White House
The Hill ^ | October 25, 2013 | Justin Sink /FR Posted by Cincinatus' Wife White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett “seems to have her tentacles into every issue and every topic” at the White House, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said Friday. The Utah congressman was discussing the rocky rollout of the ObamaCare insurance exchanges with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, who suggested that the botched website might have been the result of the administration hiring contractors close to the president's reelection campaign. Ingraham then said that “all roads lead back to” Jarrett, noting her involvement in “meetings as this thing was being formulated.” “She seems to have her tentacles into every issue and every topic,” Chaffetz responded. “Her name ultimately always comes up.”

Conservatives have routinely expressed suspicion about Jarrett's role within President Obama’s inner circle. The former Chicago lawyer and businesswoman has been a top adviser to the president since his election in 2008. --snip--

18 posted on 10/27/2013 9:07:24 AM PDT by Liz
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He face looks like that of a burn victim.

Evidently burning her at the stake didn’t work


19 posted on 10/27/2013 9:12:18 AM PDT by digger48
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To: opentalk

The Low Information Voters have never heard of Valerie Jarrett. They have no idea she exists.


20 posted on 10/27/2013 9:12:27 AM PDT by informavoracious (Root for Obamacare and healthcare.gov failure!)
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