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Obama’s Strange Dependence on Valerie Jarrett
President Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden three times before saying yes, because he got cold feet about the possible political harm to himself if the mission failed. Instead of listening to advisors from the U.S. military, Defense, or even State, Obama was acting on the advice of White House politico and close friend Valerie Jarrett. Valerie Jarrett?
This account comes from Richard Miniter’s upcoming book Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him. Miniter has written a half-dozen books on the war on terror. He is relying on an unnamed source within the U.S. military Joint Special Operations Command who was directly involved in the operation and planning of the Osama bin Laden kill mission.
Is the story credible? According to Edward Klein, a reporter once asked Obama if he ran every decision by Jarrett. Obama answered, “Yep. Absolutely.”
Edward Klein, former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor of the New York Times Magazine for many years, describes Jarrett as “ground zero in the Obama operation, the first couple’s friend and consigliere.” Klein — who claims he used a minimum of two sources for each assertion in his book on the Obama presidency, The Amateur — writes in detail about Jarrett opposing the raid on bin Laden. She told Obama not to take the political risk. Klein thought Obama ignored Jarrett’s advice. Miniter tells us he listened to her, three times telling Special Operations not to take the risk to go after bin Laden.
We need to understand the role Valerie Jarrett plays in Obama’s private and political life.
“If it wasn’t for Valerie Jarrett, there’d be no Barack Obama to complain about,” starts Klein’s chapter on Jarrett. He quotes Michelle Obama on Jarrett’s influence over her husband: “She knows the buttons, the soft spots, the history, the context.”
No one outside Michelle has the access or power over Obama’s decision-making like Jarrett does. Here’s an odd little fact that gives some insight into what kind of president Obama is: Michelle, Michelle’s mother, and Valerie, and only a few others in Washington, are allowed to call Barack by his first name. After work, Jarrett joins Obama at night in the Family Quarters, where she dines often with the First Family. She goes on vacation with them.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
August 15th, 2012
VeeJay looks like that still-unidentified animal carcass that washed up under the Brooklyn Bridge last month.
Even uglier than Mooshell, inside and out.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
August 15th, 2012
So she’s actually our first woman president?
Maudie N Mandeville
August 15th, 2012
VeeJay looks like an old shriveled useless VagJina.
dba...vagabond trader
August 15th, 2012
“Not that Jarrett’s record in Chicago was anything to be proud of. Jarrett was known for her corruption and incompetence.”
You can take the commie thugs out of Chitown……
Jerry Manderin
August 15th, 2012
That says a everything about your soul when you allow Moochelle and Valerie, the two most vile, unattractive, marxist bitches, to have you by the mangina.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 15th, 2012
@Boobie — Actually, that distinction goes to Edith Bolling Wilson. When Woodrow became incapacitated, she would not let anyone see him. Only she was allowed to “talk” to him and would relay “his messages” to other officials. In other words, she ran the country in final year of “his” presidency.
Personally, I think Jarrett is more like Harry Hopkins to Obama’s FDR. I’ve always said that Obama is not Jimmy Carter’s second term; he’s FDR’s fifth term. This reliance on Jarrett proves me right.
dba...vagabond trader
August 15th, 2012
So frightening how ignorant voters put such an anti American incompetent bunch into power. After this election the USA needs a huge high colonic to purge these creatures.
dude
August 15th, 2012
is she the puppet master?
Corona
August 15th, 2012
“I’M A MONKEYYYYYY!!”
JustAl
August 15th, 2012
Looks like an animated mannequin. I think I’ve seen her on “Dr. Who”.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
August 15th, 2012
@ Corona – Not just the album cut, the GOODFELLAS cut . . . Yeah.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
August 15th, 2012
@ Stranded – Thanks. Much appreciated.
RightWinger
August 15th, 2012
Well that’s easy to understand. She has bigger balls than Barry, that’s why he is her cuckold.
RosalindJ
August 15th, 2012
Kinda makes one wonder who has Jarrett on a leash, as her job seems to be the Barack family handler.
Mahtomedi
August 15th, 2012
A black female Rasputin. Creepy.
mkultra
August 15th, 2012
Extremely creepy iranian-cockroach hybrid, that woman. I can see her putting out the hit for Barry’s gay sex partners.
RANDO
August 15th, 2012
Planet of the Apes.
reddecaesari
August 15th, 2012
un american.
all of these marxists need to be tried for treason.
Stirrin the B.S.
August 15th, 2012
That was the best, hands down, article that I have read on Valdemort and Obysmal. If the public were to fully understand the people who influence the Destroyer, I think that they would be shocked.
What are the odds of that article going mainstream? I know, slim and none. Sighh.
TonyO
August 15th, 2012
Queen of Diamonds, “Manchurian Candidate” style.
Unneutral
August 15th, 2012
Wow, throw mom in the mix and you have a foursome.
bob
August 15th, 2012
Good god who’s president? Barry or VJ? Sounds to me like she is.
VJ doesn’t look human. Looks like some alien wearing a human mask.
Valerie Jarret is an alien. It’s up to her to prove she isn’t. What’s really under the mask?
Bob M.
August 15th, 2012
I remember when Jim Henson Productions turned out a QUALITY muppet. THAT thing really shows how the quality has slipped, since Diz-nee took over…
pfsm
August 15th, 2012
“What are the odds of that article going mainstream? I know, slim and none. Sighh.”
I agree. I posted a link to it on facebook…no likes. Probably because no reads.
C.
August 15th, 2012
She’s not black.
She’s a maternal stand-in for him or what his feminine side aspires to be or so it seems.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 15th, 2012
The Commie masters put a handler on their trained poodle. This isn’t exactly surprising. You don’t want a guy that dim and narcissistic making decisions on his own.
Plain Jane
August 15th, 2012
Barry rides the ox that is call Val. Val takes Barry to new heights of incompetence and graft. Do I feel sorry for Barry? Not on your life.
The true assholes in this story are the people who voted for him. Man, the populace is screwed up.
General Ripper
August 15th, 2012
American Thinker is the shit. One of my favorite contributors on there is Humberto Fontova. He is the go-to guy anytime you need an insightful, knowledgable article on Latin American politics.
As for that picture of Valerie Jarrett? She reminds me of one of those unfortunate burn victims whose face has been burned off and skin transplants have been Saran-wrapped back on to give the poor souls a semblance of humanity. But her? She’ll always be inhuman and her unintelligent, uninformed opinions will always be inhumane.
xiphos
August 15th, 2012
Get fired for corruption by Mayor Daley and then wind up the The White House …. only in Amerika.
Buckwheat Hussein-O
August 15th, 2012
She’s the gal who inhales the toxic fumes and has visions that drive the obama factory.
Like the Oracle at Delphi, but with a wacky liberal progressive socialist commie bitch minus the vagina.
US Navy Corpseman
August 15th, 2012
Face like a chimp — definitely simian.
Pubert
August 15th, 2012
She does have a certain “Planet of the Apes”
look about her, doesn’t she.. :/
From what I can see, the gifted one does not squat
to pee without Val’s say so.
Major Mal function
August 16th, 2012
The Commies have a title for this: Political Officer. Gotta keep the troops toeing the Party line.
Brutus
August 16th, 2012
She looks a bit like my grand-grandfather who killed a few folks in order to protect his business.
When his mouth was wide open.
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