Rat-faced hack - a taste:
Whether Jarrett's influence is all too real or exaggerated is unknowable. What is known is the extent to which she has long been a peerless enabler of Barack Obama's inflated opinion of himself. Consider this quote from New Yorker editor David Remnick's interview with her for his 2010 book The Bridge.
"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do."
Up against a court flatterer of that caliber it's no surprise that Jarrett has outlasted almost everyone who was in Obama's original White House team -- from chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to political guru David Axelrod to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. All are known to have crossed her, and all are gone. As one former Obama aide once told me: "Valerie is 'She Who Must Not be Challenged.'"
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10/26/2013 14:28 ||
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Sounds like evil vizier flattering a dumb kalif from 1001 night.
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He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is
Excuse me. I just threw up in my mouth a little. The bit about He knows what a good reader of people he is.", that I can believe. It is a trait every con man needs.
In private, senior White House officials are bitterly complaining about the reasons for the Obamacare website fiasco, offering up excuse after excuse for its failure. We share with you now the top ten excuses they are making for what seems to be an otherwise inexplicable catastrophe.
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10. B Team claimed to be the A Team.
9. Biden insisted on doing some of the coding himself.
8. Programmers spent too much time making out in the snack room with geek-adoring HHS staffers.
7. Complacent Obama aides figured, Hey, this is a U.S. government project. Of course its going to work!
6. While working, programmers sang, The knee bones connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bones connected to the hip bone, the hip bones connected to the back bone, but in web design, its the other way around.
5. Website built by extremists, suicide bombers, kidnappers, and arsonists.
4. Programmer dropped a piece of his Ring Ding in the software, screwing up everything.
3. Should have used orangutans to perform quality control instead of chimpanzees.
2. Dog ate my website.
And the top excuse for the Obama website crash is . . .
1. You just cant get a decent website for $394 million these days.
Count Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson among the ObamaCare supporters who are unhappy, even angry, with the HealthCare.gov debacle:
"The rollout of Obamacare had to be absolutely perfect. Obama needed to treat it like a 21st-century Manhattan Project... Instead, he took the pedestrian route and spent $400 million on a Canadian company that our Good Neighbors to the North once fired for incompetence."
Carlson is being unfair here. ObamaCare is actually just like the Manhattan Project, a government program that produced an awesomely destructive bomb.
Posted by: frozen Al ||
10/26/2013 13:46 Comments ||
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"The rollout of Obamacare had to be absolutely perfect. Obama needed to treat it like a 21st-century Manhattan Project... Instead, he took the pedestrian route and spent $400 million on a Canadian company that our Good Neighbors to the North once fired for incompetence."
The website was done by a fully American subsidiary of CGI...maybe the mistake was getting Americans to do it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
