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November 15, 2008
Obama Names Valerie Jarrett White House Senior Adviser
From an interview on Meet the Press on November 9, 2008.
Valerie Jarrett, Co-Chair of the Obama transition team states:
"Important for President-elect Obama to 'begin to rule' on day one."
Obama Names Valerie Jarrett White House Senior Adviser
President-elect Barack Obama is naming his longtime friend and supporter Valerie Jarrett to be his White House senior adviser.
Jarrett, who hired Michelle Obama for a job in the Chicago mayor's office years ago, is one of the president-elect's closest friends and advisers. Her name has been floated for several top administration jobs. But Obama settled on the senior adviser role, said a person close to the president-elect and willing to speak only on background because the decision has not been officially announced.
A White House senior adviser can handle a range of duties. President George W. Bush's top political aide Karl Rove held the title in the current administration.
Jarrett has a background in real estate and politics in Chicago.
And this from my post on October 28th, 2008
“The ties between Dohrn and Barack and Michelle Obama may run deep. From 1984-1988, Dohrn worked at Sidley & Austin, a law firm, which is also where Obama and his wife Michelle worked and met. “For three years after law school, Michelle worked as an associate in the area of marketing and intellectual property at Chicago law firm Sidley and Austin, where she met Barack Obama,” the official Obama campaign website reports. But it says nothing about meeting or knowing Dohrn.”
Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran!
Valerie Bowman Jarrett (born 1956) is a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. She is a senior advisor to 2008 Democratic U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Valerie Bowman was born in 1956 in Shiraz, Iran, about 570 miles south of Tehran. Her parents moved to Shiraz, known for its poets, wine and flowers, as part of a program that sent American doctors and agricultural experts to developing countries to help jump-start their health and farming efforts. Her father was on the staff of the brand new Nemazee Hospital, where Jarrett was born. "Every memory from Iran is a very happy memory,"
And there is also this..................
Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett Linked to Real Estate Scandals
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents linking Valerie Jarrett, an advisor to Barack Obama and the co-chairman of the President-Elect's transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin "Tony" Rezko.
According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama's former boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis.
(According to press reports, housing projects operated by Davis and Rezko have been substandard and beset with code violations. The Chicago Sun Times reported that one Rezko-managed housing project was "riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions...lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.")
As Chief Executive Officer of the Habitat Company Jarrett also managed a controversial housing project located in Obama's former state senate district called Grove Parc Plaza. According to the Boston Globe the housing complex was considered "uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage...In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale -- a score so bad the buildings now face demolition." Ms. Jarrett refused to comment to the Globe on the conditions of the complex.
"Like Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett is a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine. And it is no stretch to say that she was a slumlord," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "We have real concerns about Jarrett's ethics. Washington already has plenty of corruption. We don't need to import more of it from Chicago."
Characterized as "the other side of Barack Obama's brain" by CBS News, Jarrett first met the Obamas seventeen years ago when she offered Michelle Obama a job. While speculation has arisen that Jarrett could take Obama's place in the U.S. Senate, the New York Times reported that it is more likely she will become a senior White House adviser, thus continuing her long record of being an important influence and mentor to Barack and Michelle Obama.
Wild Thing's comment..........
Good grief, does Obama know anyone that is normal????
So from some of the other names I am hearing he is picking for different jobs, what Obama means by change is to hire most of Bill and Hillary's past Clinton cabinet.
Posted by Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 03:50 AM
Comments
Rule? Presidents don't "rule!" Who taught her that? He's not a king...whoops, he thinks he is, though.
I know that he is NOT going to govern from the center. He is going wide left as they say in football when the kicker misses the field goal to the left.
Rumor has it, he's going to offer Hillary either Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense or to be the first of his selections to the supreme court, so he can have her out of the way in 2012, so he can try to win again.
He's going to mess this nation up six ways from sunday and I don't know if we'll ever recover.
Posted by: Lynn at November 15, 2008 06:52 AM
B. Hussein Obama knows a lot of people that are normal. That is, normal for Chicago style dirty politics. Just look at his picks from the Chicago area. His change is bringing Chicago style politics to the nation's capitol. So far they have all been long time acquaintances and friends.
Posted by: Bob A at November 15, 2008 09:15 AM
Well, now all of America can be turned into a slum. We have just nationalized the banks and mortgage brokers, so it will be real easy for the Executive Branch and Congress to control the building of vast sub standard housing complexes for all of us to live in, ala Pyongyang. Jarret probably learned well from Rezko how to finance these public housing fiascos.
Posted by: TomR at November 15, 2008 12:09 PM
Well this is the 'change' obamna's been talking about I hope the 'bots' like it. A rehash of the Clinton Administration sprinkled with crooks from Chicago to spice it up and make it look diversified as well a corrupt.
Posted by: Mark at November 15, 2008 12:17 PM
"Rule on day one". I'm sure the President has some latitude in re-configuring the White house. I suppose one of the first orders of business will be to construct an open courtyard where he can speak to his serfs from the balcony like Hitler and Mussolini.
Posted by: jim warren at November 15, 2008 01:06 PM
Err..... I thought the president was to "Govern"... not to "Rule" Isn't that what dictator dies?
Posted by: Miss Chris at November 15, 2008 01:53 PM
The operative word is 'Rule'. Mugabe ruled!!!
Posted by: Jack at November 15, 2008 02:05 PM
Lynn, you are correct, Presidents don't "rule". However, dictators, Der Feurers, and false messiahs do rule. Valerie Jarrett was a known quantity in Obama's political life and it would have been surprising if she didn't get a high level appointment in his administration. It is refreshing to hear someone that close to the President-elect speak the truth about his real intentions on how he will "govern".
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It would be good to hear more truth from Valerie Jarrett but I am sure that Rahm Emanuel, Obama's consigliere, has read her the riot act that thou shalt not speak the truth and embarass the Messiah.
Posted by: Les at November 15, 2008 03:02 PM
Yes, Jack,
Mugabe ruled. So did Hussein, we don't need a Hussein ruling here. He's a Mess I ahh... not a Messiah. Wake up America.
Posted by: Bob A at November 15, 2008 06:22 PM
Will BJ Clinton Secretary of Sex Education ann Monica lewinski his "hands on assistant"??? Just a question.
Posted by: Bob A at November 15, 2008 06:28 PM
Chinese People never swear...Aa-sew, Aa-sew
Posted by: Mark at November 15, 2008 06:49 PM
Lynn, yes isn't that something. RULE, he will rule over us apparently. And shame on Brokaw for not pointing it out. All these words mean something and then some just sit there and think oh yes he will be our ruler. sheesh
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 07:50 PM
Bob A, yes he is bringing his thugs with him.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 07:52 PM
Jim, oh man I bet he would do that too. sheesh. I can see it now, throngs of his followers below him and he is up on a balcony speaking to the masses.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 07:55 PM
Miss Chris, your right, that is exactly what a dictator does.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 07:58 PM
Mark, you osaid it, a repeat of the Clintons with Obama's thugs thrown in. Like a double whammy.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 07:59 PM
Jack that is Obama.... Mugabe Obama of the USA
grrrrrr
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 08:01 PM
Les, Yes I would imagine Rahm caught the word rule and talked to her about it. Like wait till he is sworn in then she can use it. sheesh
Thanks for the images Les.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 08:03 PM
Bob A, haha I sure wish we could go an never see Bill and his wife again.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 08:06 PM
Mark, Hahahahahaha
Good one
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 15, 2008 08:07 PM
