Obama Staff Share On-the-Record Stories of Chaos and Infighting
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‘We’re home alone. There’s no adult in charge. Clinton would never have made these mistakes." -Former White House Economic Adviser Larry Summers.
A recently released Politico report sharing excerpts from the soon-to-be published Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind is blowing up across the Internet, putting on display the on-the-record words of Obama White House staff and their collective and often less-than-favorable assessment of the inner conflicts rampant within the Obama administration – including scathing commentary that in effect, defines Barack Obama as an absentee president.
“We’re home alone. There’s no adult in charge. Clinton would never have made these mistakes.”
So said veteran economic adviser Larry Summers, who logged experience in both the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations. According to the Politico report, Summers shared this view a number of times with various staff – including his primary rival within the administration, Budget Director Larry Orszag, who left the Obama team shortly after Summers departed.
Former Communications Director Anita Dunn also shared shocking details of the role of Barack Obama – including the charge that the Obama White House was a hostile workplace for women.
“It actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”
The excerpts also reveal Obama’s seeming envy toward Ronald Reagan, as well as the current president’s attempt to classify himself as a policy wonk executive similar to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. The policy wonk description is in stark contrast of course to the “home alone” charge levelled against the president by Larry Summers.
A glaring omission from these excerpts was any indication of the importance of Valerie Jarrett – the senior adviser to Barack Obama who has been described as “Obama’s brain”, and who apparently played a critical role in removing Rahm Emanuel from his position as White House Chief of Staff, as well as later doing the same to both David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs.
Normally former staff are hesitant to potentially politically harm a sitting president who is actively seeking a second term. Such revelations are most often not revealed until after that president has left the White House. The fact this book is coming out now, and apparently enjoyed significant on-the-record access from a number of former Obama administration members, points to a Democratic Party increasingly hostile to its own leader.
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you are really good writer. nice information about that info
I’ll look forward to reading the politico report and Confidence Men…it really seems to echo and confirm what you’ve reported thanks to the DC Insider…
I’m amused by this Snoop Cat moron. You write about a report that someone else will be released and he attacks you about one of the sources for the report. Clearly he is just another boot licking Obamabot who is enraged that Ulster Man is not on his knees preparing to kiss Dear Leader’s ass, like HE is.
Keep up the good work, UM, the angrier that idiots like SC get the more we know we have them on the ropes.
Your a preget good writer, and this was very interesting
good writing thanks
It looks like the dems have about had it with Obama to. Only the progressives/communists are still hanging with him.
A real Jackie Kennedy type she is, just look at that photo. What grace, what charm.
I think these comments are signals to the democratic elites that they need to get rid of Obama asap.
Bu bu but Galvacon and AAT(urd) said these are all lies.
Infighting….and outfighting bode Obama ill. In the Chicago Tribune an editorial by Steve Chapman pontificates on Obama stepping down and not running for re-election. Aside from the usual chagrin about the unemployment levels, one sentence summed it up for me. It was “Besides avoiding this indignity, Obama might do his party a big favor. In hard times, voters have a powerful urge to punish incumbents. He could slake this thirst by stepping aside and taking the blame. Then someone less reviled could replace him at the top of the ticket.”
Ulsterman, I do believe you and your White House Insider have been vindicated. Great job!
America needs to add one more to the unemployment roles, obama
If only politicians came up to us with some intelligent ideas for the problems the world is facing today! Thanks for sharing, though.