[Fractal Trader]

Here’s a few highlights on the Chicago players:

Valerie Jarrett: Alter writes that Jarrett, a big sister figure to the Obamas, is “so close to the family [met Barack and Michelle in 1991 before they were married when she interviewed Michelle for a job in City Hall] that she went on vacation with them.” Others, envious of her access, called her the “Keeper of the Essence.” Alter describes her as “the defender, protector, and avenger for the first family.” She was also called the “Night Stalker” because she “could and often did wander up to the family quarters after hours.” She regularly accompanied Obama on travels abroad and, although foreign policy was not a particular interest or responsibility of hers, “she would frequently take one of the half-dozen seats alongside the president in bilateral meetings, which meant one less seat for a policy expert.”

[SNIP]

One of Jarrett’s White House responsibilities—among her official titles is senior counselor to the President—was to be the administration’s liaison with business leaders, but some of these men (Alter specifies they were all men) were unimpressed. Alter quotes one unidentified CEO as saying, “When we go to the White House we talk to people we wouldn’t hire.”

[Army Air Corps]

Ping

[Viennacon]

Hmmm, was hoping for info on her skinsuit.

[goodnesswins]

"Alter quotes one unidentified CEO as saying, “When we go to the White House we talk to people we wouldn’t hire.”

SAYS it All!!!

[kiryandil]

The contest between Obama and Mitt Romney, Alter explains, was a “titanic ideological struggle over the way Americans see themselves and their obligations to one another.

And a titanic ideological struggle between Obama's minions at the IRS and the Tea Party.

Well, maybe not such a struggle. More like the IRS stomping blind newborn kittens.

[Fractal Trader]

Ping

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Jarrett ~ the power behind the throne,
and the keeper of the scepter of “revenge “

[Mortrey]

“...who won the President a second term...”

So HE’S the one that trucked the negroes into Maine to vote!!!

What a patriot!

(by the way...the “Iranian of the Day” Valerie Jarrett, has probably had the Iranian website that dubbed her this, scrubbed-—no longer available—whatashock.)

http://iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett

[maggief]

Portrayed as a woman who was “often uncomfortable with people she didn’t know,” Alter writes that Jarrett “put out the word early on [that] ‘We’re not making new friends.’” (There were a couple of exceptions, such as Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife.)

[Slyfox]