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Cebu_4_2
30th July 2016, 04:55 PM
Valerie Jarrett was our First Female President
By Daniel John Sobieski

Hillary Clinton has become the first female nominated for President of the United States but, should she win the election, she will not be the first female to occupy and control the Oval Office (insert Monica Lewinsky joke here). That honor arguably goes to Valerie Jarrett, currently Senior Adviser to President Obama.

Jarrett, born in Iran to American parents, has been with the Obamas since her days as Deputy Chief of Staff in the office of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, the elder. She hired Michelle Obama, them Michelle Robinson to fill an opening in the mayor’s office. As Wiikileaks describes the beginning of a long relationship:

In 1991, as deputy chief of staff to Mayor Richard Daley, Jarrett interviewed Michelle Robinson for an opening in the mayor's office, after which she immediately offered Robinson the job. [33] Michelle Robinson asked for time to think and also asked Jarrett to meet Robinson's fiancé, Barack Obama. The three ended up meeting for dinner. After the dinner, Michelle took the job with the mayor's office, and Valerie Jarrett reportedly took the couple under her wing and "introduced them to a wealthier and better-connected Chicago than their own." Jarrett later took Michelle with her when Jarrett left the mayor's office to head Chicago's Department of Planning and Development.

The rest, as they say, is history. Not only did Valerie Jarrett become a mentor to the young Barack Obama, she soon became what Investor’s Business Daily called Obama’s Rasputin, someone who had more security than our personnel did in Benghazi:

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…

Indeed she is not. She arguably has more influence over Obama than anyone with the possible exception of Michelle Obama herselkf. As IBD notes:

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."

It relates that at the urging of Jarrett, Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011, Navy SEAL mission. Seems she was concerned about the possible political harm to Obama if the mission failed.

Miniter writes that the president canceled the kill mission in January 2011, again in February and a third time in March, in each instance at the urging of Jarrett.

Miniter cites a source within the Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.

Edward Klein, author of the best-selling book about Obama, "The Amateur," once asked Obama if he ran every decision by Jarrett, and the president responded, "Absolutely." A former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor of the New York Times Magazine, Klein describes Jarrett as "ground zero in the Obama operation, the first couple's friend and consigliere."

Her power and influence extends to staffing by the White House to a virtual veto power over foreign policy decisions. Valerie Jarrett undoubtedly had significant input into President Obama’s Munich-like deal with Iran, which kicks the nuclear can down the road to assured detonation over Israel, which Iran continues to threaten to wipe off the map when it is not wishing “death to America”. Her influence over President Obama is legendary:

The Iranian-born Jarrett (her parents were American-born expatriates) is the only staff member who regularly follows the president home from the West Wing to the residence and one of the few people allowed to call the president by his first name.

Noam Scheiber, writing in the November 9, 2014, New Republic, called Jarrett “The Obama Whisperer”, noting her power and influence and the fear she instilled in other staffers:

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. She has placed friends and former employees in important positions across the administration -- “you can be my person over there,” is a common refrain.

And Jarrett has been known to enjoy the perks of high office herself. When administration aides plan “bilats,” the term of art for meetings of two countries’ top officials, they realize that whatever size meeting they negotiate -- nine by nine, eight by eight, etc. -- our side will typically include one less foreign policy hand, because Jarrett has a standing seat at any table that includes the president.

Hillary won’t be the first female occupant of the White House to call the shots. She might not even be the second, for he has at her side one Huma Abedin, who is as much at her side as Jarrett is at Obama’s. Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Valerie Jarrett’s hold over President Obama is as mysterious as it has proven dangerous. We do not need another Jarrett in the person of Huma Abedin, whose corruption and influence peddling may be surpassed only by the future president who would put her in a position of power.

Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.

Joshua01
31st July 2016, 12:06 AM
I sure know the Kenyan isn't bright enough to do the damage he's done by himself so this is not surprising

Cebu_4_2
31st July 2016, 10:28 AM
Barack Obama's closest and most influential adviser, Valerie Jarrett, has never been an enigma. She was, after all, the person most responsible for bringing the revolutionary communist Van Jones (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406) into the Administration six years ago, so her bona fides as a radical extremist have long been obvious to anyone who wasn't afraid to notice. But a newly released report from Judicial Watch (http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/), which examines key FBI documents related to Jarrett's many family ties to hardcore Communists, brings bold color to what previously were gray areas. The effect is nothing short of breathtaking, when we consider that the twice-elected President of our nation chose this woman—and no one else—to serve, essentially, as his co-president.

Valerie Jarrett's late father—a physician named James Bowman—had a lengthy FBI file (http://www.frontpagemag.com/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/06/BowmanFBIfile.pdf) showing that he was a Communist (http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/) who often collaborated with other Communists based principally in Chicago. In 1950, for instance, Bowman communicated with a paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern (http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-24/local/me-21002_1_undercover-agent), who later fled the U.S. to Prague when he was indicted on espionage charges that were ultimately confirmed (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB915498606937173500) beyond doubt—specifically, he had conspired (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB915498606937173500) to transmit military and political information to the Soviet Union. Bowman was also a member (http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/) of the Association of Internes and Medical Students, a group that, according to his FBI file, engaged in un-American activities and “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line.”
So much for dear-old-Dad.

Valerie Jarrett's mother (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36289) is the early-childhood-education author Barbara Taylor Bowman (born 1928), who in 1966 co-founded (http://www.erikson.edu/default/aboutei/leadership/founders.aspx) a Chicago-based graduate school in child development known as the Erikson Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7856), named after the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. In 1950 Erikson became a hero to the Left by choosing to resign from his professorship at the University of California rather than sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath as the school required. The Erikson Institute's radical orientation is reflected in the fact that its board of trustees has included (http://www.wnd.com/2008/10/77971/) such figures as Bernardine Dohrn (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190), wife of the former Weather Underground (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808) terrorist and lifelong Marxist Bill Ayers (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169), and Tom Ayers, father of the same lifelong Marxist.

Okay, so much for Mommy.

Jarrett's maternal grandfather was a Chicagoan named Robert Taylor (http://spectator.org/articles/35070/all-political-family), the first African-American head of the Chicago Housing Authority. In the 1940s he was involved with such Communist fronts as the American Peace Mobilization and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee. A fellow member of these groups was Frank Marshall Davis (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2323), the Communist journalist who in the 1970s would mentor a young Barack Obama. An FBI document (http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/fbi-investigations-targeted-valerie-jarretts-family/) shows that Taylor, like Valerie Jarrett's father, was believed to have been “in contact” with the aforementioned Soviet agent Alfred Stern “on a number of occasions.”
Oh dear. So much for Grandpa.

Well, how about Grandma? Remember going to your own grandmother's house on Sunday afternoons, years ago, for fresh-baked pies, sweet jam, and lots of hugs? Valerie Jarrett's maternal grandmother (http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/jamie-glazov/valerie-jarretts-influence-on-obama/), Dorothy Taylor, was an activist with Planned Parenthood (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7083) in its early years. Planned Parenthood was founded in 1942 by Margaret Sanger (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/224136/dark-past-jonah-goldberg), a member of the New York Socialist Party and a eugenicist who favored the use of use birth control to limit the reproduction of society's “least intelligent and fit” members. Toward that end, Sanger in 1939 created the so-called “Negro Project” specifically to prevent black people from breeding. Her Birth Control Review magazine once published an article emphasizing the “urgent need” for “eugenic sterilization.” That piece was penned by none other than Ernst Rüdin, who, as Jonah Goldberg (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/224136/dark-past-jonah-goldberg) points out, was Adolf Hitler’s director of sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene.

Okay Grandma. Thanks for the pie and revolutionary politics. See ya next Sunday!
Eventually, the time came for Valerie to explore love and marriage. In 1983 she wed Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. And Valerie got along just splendidly with her new father-in-law, who surely must've reminded her very much of Daddy and Gramps.

You see, in the 1940s Vernon Jarrett had been the first nationally syndicated black columnist for the Communist-influenced (http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/valerie-jarrett-planted-by-communist-sympathizer/) Chicago Defender, where he wrote pieces extolling the Communist poet (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=12026) Langston Hughes and (http://www.reason.com/news/show/129628.html) lifelong Stalinists like W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson. Also in the '40s, Vernon Jarrett was a leader (http://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/08/barack-obama-and-valerie-jarrett-brought-together-by-fickle-fate-or-something-more/) of the Chicago chapter of American Youth for Democracy (http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/American_Youth_for_Democracy)—the youth wing of the Communist Party USA. Moreover, he served (http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/jamie-glazov/valerie-jarretts-influence-on-obama/) on a publicity committee for the Packinghouse Workers Union, a Chicago-based entity dominated (http://spectator.org/articles/35070/all-political-family) by the Communist Party. In each of these endeavors, Vernon Jarrett had close contact (http://spectator.org/articles/34799/dreams-frank-marshall-davis) with the Communist Frank Marshall Davis (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2323)—who, as noted above, later became Barack Obama's mentor.

According to his FBI files (http://www.frontpagemag.com/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/06/Vernon-Jarrett-file.pdf), Vernon Jarrett was a leading Chicago-based Communist. “For a period of time,” reports (http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/) Judicial Watch, his name “appeared on the FBI’s Security Index and [he] was considered a potential Communist saboteur who was to be arrested in the event of a conflict with the [USSR]. His FBI file reveals that he was assigned to write propaganda for a Communist Party front group in Chicago that would 'disseminate the Communist Party line among … the middle class.'”
There were lots of tears when Vernon Jarrett died in 2004, but also many laudatory remembrances. Not the least of those was a glowing salute (http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/5331/) in the pages of People’s Weekly World, the house organ of the Communist Party.

These, then, are the people who raised and most heavily influenced a young Valerie Jarrett; the people who made her who she is today. Is it any wonder, then, that she gravitated so quickly and eagerly to Barack and Michelle Obama when she first met them in the late 1980s? Is it any wonder that when Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, he appointed Jarrett to a prominent position (http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/08/obamas_strange_dependence_on_valerie_jarrett.html) in the new Administration: Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs?

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank tells (http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/jamie-glazov/valerie-jarretts-influence-on-obama/) us that Valerie Jarrett's connection to Obama is “deep and personal,” calling her “the real center of Obama’s inner circle.” Milbank describes Jarrett as someone in a “position of unparalleled influence over the president.” Obama himself has acknowledged that he solicits Jarrett's input on every decision (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26jarrett-t.html?pagewanted=8&_r=1) he makes.
Jarrett, for her part, puts it this way: “We have kind of a mind meld (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26jarrett-t.html?pagewanted=7&_r=1). And chances are, what he wants to do is what I’d want to do.” “I kind of know what makes them [the Obamas] who they are,” she adds (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/us/politics/06jarrett.html).
Truer words have never been spoken.

monty
31st July 2016, 10:40 AM
A few years back there was an internet poster "whitehouse insider" who wrote much about Valerie Jarrett's control over Obama.

If the FBI has so much information why is no one prosecuted for treason, oh never mind, they are one big happy family. . . . . Communist spooks