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Obama warns staff: Ignore palace intrigue
Politico ^ | 3/8/10 | Mike Allen

Posted on 03/08/2010 4:58:56 AM PST by txlurker

The spate of news stories delving into West Wing palace intrigue has become so relentless that President Barack Obama warned his team against fueling the blaze.

“Don’t get absorbed in the Washington finger-pointing and intrigue,” the president told his senior advisers during a recent meeting, according to one top aide.

He “certainly let us know that we should keep our eye on the ball here and not get distracted by the games of Washington,” the aide said.

The season of turmoil, which has erupted just as Obama is pushing for final health care votes that could determine his domestic legacy, is the most vivid example of how the discipline of the campaign — which prided itself on a tight-knit culture and aides who stayed aloof from the who’s-up, who’s-down obsessions of the press and the Washington political class — has frayed under stress.

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1 posted on 03/08/2010 4:58:56 AM PST by txlurker
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Too many staffers refering to “President Jay-Z”.


2 posted on 03/08/2010 5:02:28 AM PST by Celerity
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finger-pointing, a staple with these liars which leads to a good tossing under the bus. Nice to see they eat thier own.


3 posted on 03/08/2010 5:02:32 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Cockblock the sock puppet in 2010)
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Or doing things like flying AIR FORCE ONE packed with friends directly over Manhattan for an expensive photo-op project...


4 posted on 03/08/2010 5:06:41 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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BS


5 posted on 03/08/2010 5:08:43 AM PST by BARLF
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palace? “Palace?” ... Really???!


6 posted on 03/08/2010 5:09:16 AM PST by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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palace? “Palace?” ... Really???!


7 posted on 03/08/2010 5:10:13 AM PST by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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finger-pointing, a staple with these liars which leads to a good tossing under the bus. Nice to see they eat thier own.

Isn't it amazing? I am stunned by the whole suggestion that the White House is a palace.

8 posted on 03/08/2010 5:10:13 AM PST by txlurker
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LOL. I had the same reaction when I read the headline. Stunning isn’t it?


9 posted on 03/08/2010 5:11:16 AM PST by txlurker
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Or doing things like flying AIR FORCE ONE packed with friends directly over Manhattan for an expensive photo-op project...

Or my favorite...date nights.

10 posted on 03/08/2010 5:12:12 AM PST by txlurker
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Cat Fight!


11 posted on 03/08/2010 5:14:05 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Both the turmoil and the call to ignore it are good for conservatives as we seek to defeat Obama’s agenda at every turn.


12 posted on 03/08/2010 5:15:44 AM PST by G Larry (DNC is comprised of REGRESSIVES!)
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13 posted on 03/08/2010 5:15:51 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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How long until Rahm Dead Fish is swimming with the fishes?

(Metaphorically speaking, for the analogy impaired.)

Who is going to take him out?


14 posted on 03/08/2010 5:17:47 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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He “certainly let us know that we should keep our eye on the ball here and not get distracted by the games of Washington,” the aide said.

Does Obama share that reputed trait of Hitler?
15 posted on 03/08/2010 5:19:25 AM PST by aruanan
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To: Celerity
Too many staffers referring to “President Jay-Z”.

malice in the palace

16 posted on 03/08/2010 5:26:09 AM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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He doesn’t even have enough cajones to claim:

*I’m in Charge*

because he’s not!

It is becoming very clear that BO is a puppet and the puppeteers have their knickers in a twist.


17 posted on 03/08/2010 5:27:44 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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Don’t point the finger at each other, point the finger at President George W. Bush.


18 posted on 03/08/2010 5:47:43 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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BO is a puppet ...

Yes he is. And because of this, everyone else in the "Chicago Mob" (that is his administration), thinks that they are (or should be) the real "Godfather." Mob War.


B.O.: Smell the Change!

19 posted on 03/08/2010 5:47:51 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: sodpoodle
Exactly.

When the president of this great nation has to shout out I'm the PRESIDENT to the world , you just know he knows he is a puppet.

Who owns ya Barry?

Just because Axelrod , Emanuel, Valerie or one of the other little Hitlers in the WH say he said it doesn't make it so.

20 posted on 03/08/2010 5:49:01 AM PST by BARLF
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