Valerie Jarrett - Obama's Rasputin

IBD EDITORIALS ^ | September 26, 2012

[raptor22]

White House: She receives more protection than our Libyan ambassador, calls the president by his first name, dines and vacations with the First Family and had the power to call off three strikes against Osama bin Laden.

Ambassador Chris Stevens did not have a Marine detail in Benghazi, Libya. But White House senior adviser and Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett reportedly had a full Secret Service detail on vacation in Martha's Vineyard.

"Jarrett seems to have a 24-hour, around-the-clock detail, with five or six agents full time," Democratic pollster Pat Caddell said in an interview recently with Breitbart news. If Stevens had a similar escort, he'd probably be alive today.

Such protection isn't usually available to senior advisers, but Jarrett is no ordinary adviser.

She almost always seems to be near the president and first lady, and her name keeps popping up at key moments, indicating the power and influence she wields.

Her influence is shown by an account in Richard Miniter's book "Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him."

[Coldwater Creek]

My late husband was in counter intelligence during the Cold War. He warned me over and over that the communist and the Muzzies had infiltrated. He said that if we really knew what was going on in this country we would be literally scared to death. There was so much that he carried with him during the years, but at his death bed, it still weighed heavily on him. Sorry, I'm rambling.

It really pains me that so many have given their lives for naught.

[Spaulding]

"Then how did Condi Rice get to be provost at Stanford?"

Interesting question. Rice has some skeletons, political and personal, including associations with progressives and the far left that might have been revealed had she run for a Republican office, but was never, to my knowledge, close to being a Communist. Stanford, while it doesn't compete with Harvard, gets lots of money for educating children of the Saudis. One literally needs to be careful not to trip over someone praying on the patio at Tresider Union. Condi's graduate work, under Madeline Albright’s father, was in USSR and Russian history. She is a fine pianist.

Doctrinaire Marxism was specific to departments such as Comparative Literature, Spanish, Forestry and Energy and Environment, and probably others with which I had no involvement, and so won't comment. I knew two individuals, both from South America, with sparkling resumes, but whose families had suffered under communism, and were not active revolutionaries in the US, in word or deed. The were both rejected in favor of non-native speaking Marxists with degrees from less presdigious schools and who published mostly Marxist analysis which no one ever read. No party requirements required for physics, engineering, chem. It is part of getting older to meet many expats from China, the children of those whose futures were redirected, no Beijing University even for the brightest in the class, because a parent or relative was on the wrong side.