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Valerie Jarrett, Obama Adviser

Posted by John Perazzo on Oct 20th, 2009 and filed under Discover the Networks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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    For the entire Valerie Jarrett profile, click here.

    Selected highlights from the Valerie Jarrett profile:

    … In 1983 Valerie married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. Vernon Jarrett was a pioneering black journalist who wrote columns for The Chicago Defender extolling Communist poet Langston Hughes and lifelong Stalinists W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson….

    After [Chicago mayor Harold] Washington’s death in 1987, Valerie Jarrett worked for his successor, Richard M. Daley, whom she served as Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1991 Jarrett and her colleague Susan Sher recruited to City Hall Michelle Robinson (the future Michelle Obama), who at the time was engaged to Barack Obama….

    In 2008 Jarrett co-chaired the Obama-Biden Transition Project. After that, she was appointed to a prominent position in the Obama administration: Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.

    Jarrett became one of President Obama’s (and Mrs. Obama’s) closest and most trusted advisers. An Obama 2008 campaign official told the New York Times, “If you want [Barack Obama] to do something, there are two people [he's] not going to say no to: Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama.” …

    Without Jarrett’s patronage, the self-identified communist revolutionary Van Jones would not have gotten his appointment as the Obama administration’s Green Jobs Czar in March 2009. A White House official told Politico that Jones “did not go through the traditional vetting process”; instead, Jarrett interviewed Jones, a signal that she pushed for his appointment. Jarrett gushed to the Netroots Nation conference:

    “We were so delighted to be able to recruit him [Van Jones] into the White House. We were watching him…for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that, and we have all that energy in the White House.”

    For the entire Valerie Jarrett profile, click here.

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    2 Responses for “Valerie Jarrett, Obama Adviser”

    1. Name says:

      Langston Hughes: One of 20th Century America's greatest poets.
      W.E.B. DuBois: “Lifelong Stalinist” (DuBois was born in 1868 by the way) One of
      america's Greatest Black Leaders. Fortunately, he was not in Atlanta in 1906 when whites went on a rampage killing blacks in the streets.

    2. abijah says:

      When are conservatives, independants and Republicans going to give the benefit of doubt to these dedicated revolutionaries? Rush and perhaps Hannity have recently expressed publically what was apparent from the begining of the primaries. It isn't that they “don't understand”. They know exactly what they are doing and have been planning it for decades. Obama activists and the Obama administration lie, it is their first language. They do not act in good faith. “Obama is shepherding America's decline” I am convinced that most of them are actually trying to destroy America on every front. They desire, in my opinion, to reduce America to just another nation or to that of a third world country, a banana republic.

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