Posted on 11/10/2014 5:56:52 AM PST by oblomov
Even at this late date in the Obama presidency, there is no surer way to elicit paranoid whispers or armchair psychoanalysis from Democrats than to mention the name Valerie Jarrett. Party operatives, administration officials—they are shocked by her sheer longevity and marvel at her influence. When I asked a longtime source who left the Obama White House years ago for his impressions of Jarrett, he confessed that he was too fearful to speak with me, even off the record.
This is not as irrational as it sounds. Obama has said he consults Jarrett on every major decision, something current and former aides corroborate. “Her role since she has been at the White House is one of the broadest and most expansive roles that I think has ever existed in the West Wing,” says Anita Dunn, Obama’s former communications director. Broader, even, than the role of running the West Wing. This summer, the call to send Attorney General Eric Holder on a risky visit to Ferguson, Missouri, was made by exactly three people: Holder himself, the president, and Jarrett, who were vacationing together on Martha’s Vineyard. When I asked Holder if Denis McDonough, the chief of staff, was part of the conversation, he thought for a moment and said, “He was not there.” (Holder hastened to add that “someone had spoken to him.”)
Jarrett holds a key vote on Cabinet picks (she opposed Larry Summers at Treasury and was among the first Obama aides to come around on Hillary Clinton at State) and has an outsize say on ambassadorships and judgeships. She helps determine who gets invited to the First Lady’s Box for the State of the Union, who attends state dinners and bill-signing ceremonies, and who sits where at any of the above.
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Jarrett is Zero what the “colonel” Edwin Mandel House was to Woodrow Wilson.
I wouldn’t expect TNR to be highly critical of Obama or Jarrett. But the article does confirm what conservatives have written about her inordinate influence.
Pay no attention to that woman behind the teleprompter.
Jarrett is the Haman to Obama’s King Ahasuerus.
I don’t think Hussein reaches to Xerxes status yet.
I well remember an Old Testament Story - Jezebel was her name. Jezebel nearly destroyed Israel and when Jezebell died the wild dogs ate her up
Jarrett is proof that Reptilian Shape Shifters exist, and have taken over the world.
This is pure CYA stuff so that ValJar doesn't get the blame for Barry's a$$whooping last week.
“Jarrett’s job may be nothing less than to reflect the most authentic version of Barack Obama back at himself.”
The narcissist’s mirror - how fitting.
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