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Valerie Jarrett, the CEO of Obama Inc.
March 19, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
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This compartmentalization is the reason why media coverage of Obama remains largely unchanged and very little attention is paid to the non-cabinet level personalities who actually make policy. Colin Powells dissatisfaction with his lack of influence under Bush was widely covered, while Hillary Clintons was not. The Powell implosion led the media to exaggerate the role of Dick Cheney, but no one asks who really had the final say on foreign policy under Obama if Hillary Clinton didnt.
The Obama White House is a radical departure from previous administrations. Its a permanent campaign, not just for the obvious reason that it is constantly using the tactics of the campaign, fundraising, attacking and performing, but also because it operates like a campaign reducing the traditional forms of an administration to formalities.
Cabinet members have little influence. Decisions are made by White House staffers, many from the Center for American Progress, who are the ones running the unaccountable permanent campaign.
There is no Obama administration. There is an Obama campaign. And that campaign is part of an organization built around a single figure; Obama Inc.
Obama Inc. has more in common with the type of organization built around a celebrity like Beyonce than a conventional political organization. It can handle everything from fundraising, branding to viral marketing, but like the inner circles of top celebrities, the most influential person in the organization is the one who can soothe, pamper and cater to the celebritys mercurial personality.
Valerie Jarretts role as CEO of Obama Inc. confuses those who expect a more conventional arrangement. Jarrett is less Dick Cheney and more Colonel Parker or Helen Kushnick; a powerful enigmatic figure ruthlessly dedicated to her star whose power comes from his dependency.
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Jarrett merges the personal and the political. Obama may chat with numerous advisers, but its Valerie who goes back to eat with Michelle and the family. A cabinet member is lucky to catch Obamas attention once. Valerie Jarrett has it full time, day or night, leading to her nickname of Night Stalker.
If Obama skips security briefings, its because they, like so much of the formal infrastructure of government, are there just for show. The real briefing will come from or through Jarrett and it will be massaged into the talking points that communicate only what she wants them to.
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Valerie Jarrett got away with too much during her time in Chicago politics to have learned caution. Where more conventional Democrats would slow down, Valerie Jarrett speeds up; a successful career of corruption and leftist politics has given her a sense of political and moral invulnerability. But that doesnt mean that Jarrett lacks skill; like her boss, what she lacks is a sense of responsibility.
Obama is a political dilettante whose skills are entirely people skills. Valerie Jarretts people skills are negligible and concentrated on only one person, but unlike her boss, protégé and adopted son, she has the endurance and drive to pursue an issue indefinitely.
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Jarrett and Obama are both Third Culture activists with a background in the Muslim world and left-wing politics, who came up the ladder through their involvement with corrupt political non-profits and equally corrupt Chicago politics. Both have dipped their toes in the narrow interests of the urban black community while having political agendas that transcended theirs on a global scale. And both have deep wells of resentment.
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Obama may be reading a teleprompter on stage, but Valerie Jarrett is the woman behind the curtain.
Valerie Jarrett, the CEO of Obama Inc. | FrontPage Magazine
Valerie Jarrett, the CEO of Obama Inc.
March 19, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
...
This compartmentalization is the reason why media coverage of Obama remains largely unchanged and very little attention is paid to the non-cabinet level personalities who actually make policy. Colin Powells dissatisfaction with his lack of influence under Bush was widely covered, while Hillary Clintons was not. The Powell implosion led the media to exaggerate the role of Dick Cheney, but no one asks who really had the final say on foreign policy under Obama if Hillary Clinton didnt.
The Obama White House is a radical departure from previous administrations. Its a permanent campaign, not just for the obvious reason that it is constantly using the tactics of the campaign, fundraising, attacking and performing, but also because it operates like a campaign reducing the traditional forms of an administration to formalities.
Cabinet members have little influence. Decisions are made by White House staffers, many from the Center for American Progress, who are the ones running the unaccountable permanent campaign.
There is no Obama administration. There is an Obama campaign. And that campaign is part of an organization built around a single figure; Obama Inc.
Obama Inc. has more in common with the type of organization built around a celebrity like Beyonce than a conventional political organization. It can handle everything from fundraising, branding to viral marketing, but like the inner circles of top celebrities, the most influential person in the organization is the one who can soothe, pamper and cater to the celebritys mercurial personality.
Valerie Jarretts role as CEO of Obama Inc. confuses those who expect a more conventional arrangement. Jarrett is less Dick Cheney and more Colonel Parker or Helen Kushnick; a powerful enigmatic figure ruthlessly dedicated to her star whose power comes from his dependency.
...
Jarrett merges the personal and the political. Obama may chat with numerous advisers, but its Valerie who goes back to eat with Michelle and the family. A cabinet member is lucky to catch Obamas attention once. Valerie Jarrett has it full time, day or night, leading to her nickname of Night Stalker.
If Obama skips security briefings, its because they, like so much of the formal infrastructure of government, are there just for show. The real briefing will come from or through Jarrett and it will be massaged into the talking points that communicate only what she wants them to.
...
Valerie Jarrett got away with too much during her time in Chicago politics to have learned caution. Where more conventional Democrats would slow down, Valerie Jarrett speeds up; a successful career of corruption and leftist politics has given her a sense of political and moral invulnerability. But that doesnt mean that Jarrett lacks skill; like her boss, what she lacks is a sense of responsibility.
Obama is a political dilettante whose skills are entirely people skills. Valerie Jarretts people skills are negligible and concentrated on only one person, but unlike her boss, protégé and adopted son, she has the endurance and drive to pursue an issue indefinitely.
...
Jarrett and Obama are both Third Culture activists with a background in the Muslim world and left-wing politics, who came up the ladder through their involvement with corrupt political non-profits and equally corrupt Chicago politics. Both have dipped their toes in the narrow interests of the urban black community while having political agendas that transcended theirs on a global scale. And both have deep wells of resentment.
...
Obama may be reading a teleprompter on stage, but Valerie Jarrett is the woman behind the curtain.
Valerie Jarrett, the CEO of Obama Inc. | FrontPage Magazine
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