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Valerie Jarrett’s Advice To Obama: Don’t Be “Distracted” By Sarah Palin
Mediaite ^ | December 26, 2010 | Matt Schneider

Posted on 12/26/2010 4:35:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and host David Gregory tried his best to get Jarrett to comment on potential Republican opponent in 2012 Sarah Palin. However, Jarrett stayed on message, which she suggested was the same advice she gives the President: stay focused on helping the American people.

Jarrett claimed that Obama does not think about Palin or campaigning because instead, she stated:

As president, his job is really to focus first on that. And if he does that job well, if he looks out for America, if it’s clear that he’s doing everything he can to make sure that hardworking Americans who’ve lost their jobs can go back to work, and if he keeps America safe and he demonstrates that 24/7 that’s his priority, then I think the politics will take care of itself.

Suggesting the campaign in 2012 will be different than the last time where he was just a Senator who had to worry about every move of all his potential opponents, Jarrett clearly believes incumbency gives Obama the luxury of not being concerned with such details this time around. Jarrett concluded regarding Palin, “I think he shouldn’t be distracted by what . . . are perceived as threats.”

However, Obama and his advisors better be careful, because the last presidential candidate to underestimate the seriousness of a rookie opponent was one Hillary Clinton and we all know how that turned out.

Watch the clip from NBC below:

(VIDEO AT LINK)


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2012; freepressforpalin; obama; palin; sarahpalin
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To: True Republican Patriot
I read part of Mooch-El's "senior thesis" when it was still posted on the internet. It was pretty unreadable, a self-absorbed screed about being an idiot black girl at a pricey white university. Written at the level of the average high school senior, "What I did on my Summer Vacation" would be a reasonable comparison.
21 posted on 12/26/2010 5:16:45 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Valerie Jarrett’s Advice To Obama: Don’t Be “Distracted” By Sarah Palin"

Obviously Sarah lives in their heads 24/7. Go Barracuda!!

22 posted on 12/26/2010 5:17:18 PM PST by NoGrayZone (What we conservatives call the privates, the liberals call public access! (thnx Balding_Eagle)
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To: Dick Bachert

good idea, and that torch is HOT. you see ‘em all startin’ to sweat because of the heat. the hildebeaste is about to start stickin’ hot pokers up his posterior, too.


23 posted on 12/26/2010 5:20:34 PM PST by stickywillie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jarrett's running the country - not Obumber boy. 0 is taking his directions from Jarrett as he “trusts” her judgment...lol.
24 posted on 12/26/2010 5:22:13 PM PST by khnyny (What exactly is a CDO??)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And her resume is as thin as Obamas. Skin color, 330k a year to sit on affirmative action seats on various boards, no work history at all.

Where the hell did we wind up with this unqualified bunch running the nation? And they are all Chicago, reflecting Obamas lack of accomplishments, friends, and anything resembling an American life.


25 posted on 12/26/2010 5:22:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: petertare

Good Idea - especially after the citizenry of Hawaii elected another Marxist to replace the previous Gov/RINO. This guy says his top priority is to take of the “Birthers.” He can do it in one step: release the Long-Form BC


26 posted on 12/26/2010 5:22:53 PM PST by Sioux-san
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To: taildragger

if you want to start an argument with me, you’re gonna have to change the subject. they always show us who they fear. it’s like an reflex which reverberates all over the body democrat.


27 posted on 12/26/2010 5:24:47 PM PST by stickywillie
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To: Jacquerie

No way does Barry Soetoro intend to have a second term. All damage must be done before he leaves office. He knows that someone somewhere will expose the truth about his eligibility issue - if I am not right on that one, I will be the first to line up at the internment camp to save Barry’s monkeys from having to deal with me.


28 posted on 12/26/2010 5:25:49 PM PST by Sioux-san
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To: hinckley buzzard

I read it too and at the time said it was not work I would have accepted from my home schooled son when he was in high school.
It screamed affirmative action not academic qualification.


29 posted on 12/26/2010 5:28:03 PM PST by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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Keep attacking and mocking her idiots. What you fail to understand is by doing so, you’re also attacking and mocking the values of a significant percentage of the population.


30 posted on 12/26/2010 5:28:08 PM PST by Hayride
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To: Hayride

Are you drunk?


31 posted on 12/26/2010 5:30:02 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Hayride

“you’re also attacking and mocking the values of a significant percentage of the population.”

Yeah,,,the black liberation, socialist, and America hating percentage. lol


32 posted on 12/26/2010 5:32:11 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Hayride

Wait,, i think im being dense. You were not worried about all of us mocking Valerie Jerrett. You were referring to the media mocking Sarah. My bad.


33 posted on 12/26/2010 5:33:56 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps they can sick their friends in the establishmedia on her?

Pray for the New Congress


34 posted on 12/26/2010 5:37:09 PM PST by bray (Sarah Palin will destroy the Repub Party, hopefully!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If nominated which of the following states will Palin lose:

1. Alabama
2. Alaska
3. Arkansas
4. Arizona
5. Colorado
6. Florida
7. Georgia
8. Indiana
9. Idaho
10. Kansas
11. Kentucky
12. Louisiana
13. Mississippi
14. Missouri
15. Montana
16. Nebraska
17. Nevada
18. North Carolina
19. North Dakota
20. Ohio
21. Oklahoma
22. South Carolina
23. South Dakota
24. Tennessee
25. Texas
26. Utah
27. Virginia
28. West Virginia
29. Wyoming

If Palin is nominated and wins all of these states that G. W. Bush won twice, she is president. Since these states have 281 electoral votes in 2012, if she wins Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas, she can lose any single state among the other 24 above and still she is president.

So anyone from or with insight into any of these states want to report in that Palin is unlikely to win them against Obama? Or does anyone want to assert that she will have a hard time winning any particular state among these states?


35 posted on 12/26/2010 5:39:51 PM PST by JLS (Democrats: People who won't even let you enjoy an unseasonably warm winter day.)
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To: NoGrayZone
I'd love for a bunch of people to buy the SP Alaska show, when it's released, and mail copies to the White House.
36 posted on 12/26/2010 5:42:07 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: Brilliant

How can he not be distracted. She’s living in his head 24/7, rent free.


37 posted on 12/26/2010 5:43:09 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: JLS

The risk I see is when Soros gets his 3rd party “No Labels” candidate in there to split the anti-Baraq vote.

Then the results become unpredictable.

I agree no way Baraq wins a 2-way race.


38 posted on 12/26/2010 5:43:28 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

I believe you have a good point there. But the “no labels” group is going to nominate Bloomberg and I don’t see him having much of an impact in any of the states I listed.

Bloomberg might attract the votes of some true believers on the left that think Obama has sold them out.


39 posted on 12/26/2010 5:51:19 PM PST by JLS (Democrats: People who won't even let you enjoy an unseasonably warm winter day.)
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To: All

" Hey, Valerie, what should I do next? Say what? Keep the teabaggers
off-balance? Hit 'em from behind with something new? Hell, I did that already."

40 posted on 12/26/2010 5:53:31 PM PST by Liz (There's a new definition of bipartisanship in Washington -- it's called former member.)
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