Some of Obama's closest aides could be jumping ship
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Rahm
Emanuel leading exodus of Obama aides from White House...
Rahm Emanuel leading exodus of Obama aides from White House
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Some of Obama's closest aides could be jumping ship
Obama's Wars
The inside story of the Obama WhiteHouse by reporter Bob Woodward.
The likely departure of the White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, to run
for Mayor of Chicago is part of a
half-term reshuffle of top aides that will signal a new chapter in the history
of Barack Obama's increasingly
embattled presidency.
It also raises a vital question: will Mr Obama continue to rely on the small
and trusted group of
intimates who have followed him from Chicago to Washington – or will he seize
the chance
to bring in new blood from the outside to invigorate an administration high
command that
critics say has become insular and out of touch?
The official word at the White House remains that Mr Emanuel is still "in the
process of thinking
about what he's going to do next". Unofficially, it is virtually taken for
granted he will leave.
The filing deadline for the race to succeed the outgoing mayor, Richard Daley,
is 22 November,
and the Chicago Sun-Times reported yesterday that Terry Peterson, head of the
city's transit authority,
had signed up as Mr Emanuel's campaign manager.
Among the possible replacements as Chief of Staff
(whose role is to take charge of the day-to-day running of the White House and
advise the President)
are Pete Rouse, a senior Obama adviser;
Tim Kaine, the former governor of Virginia; and Tom Donilon,
the deputy national security adviser to General James Jones. But Gen Jones,
too, is said to want to leave by the end of the year.
Another impending departure is that of David Axelrod, a key adviser and
architect of
the 2008 campaign, who has been to President Obama something akin to what
Karl Rove was to George W Bush. Mr Axelrod is also set to head to Chicago
some time after the mid-term elections on 2 November, to plan President
Obama's 2012 re-election bid. "I've been pretty clear ... that at some point,
I'm going to go back and work on the re-election campaign," he said this week.
No less of an upheaval looms in the President's economic team.
After two years as director of Mr Obama's National Economic Council,
the abrasive Larry Summers is returning to his former professorship at Harvard,
while Peter Orszag, the budget director, and Christina Romer, head of the
Council of Economic Advisers,
have already left. There are hiccups ahead in the wider government, too, with
Defence Secretary Robert Gates signalling his intention to step down well
before the President's term is complete.
Mr Obama is said to be keen for a woman to replace Mr Summers,
and among the names mentioned are Anne Mulcahy, a former chairwoman of Xerox,
and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a top economic adviser at the Clinton White House.
However dramatic in appearance, such staff turnovers are anything but unusual
at
the White House, with its gruelling working hours, round-the-clock pressure and
disruption of family life – not to mention all those large egos cooped up in a
small
space, and salaries that are often far below those in the private sector.
Andrew Card's stint of five and a half years under George Bush
was very much the exception. Both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton got
through four chiefs of staff in their eight years in office. George Bush
Senior had three in his single four-year term.
Mr Emanuel, whose performance has won praise and blame in
equal measure, made no secret of his ambivalence about taking the job
when Mr Obama offered it days after his election victory in November 2008.
Then a senior Democratic Congressman, he eventually accepted,
but at the price of forfeiting a career on Capitol Hill that many believed
would one day take him to the Speakership. More recently he has not
concealed his interest in becoming mayor of his native Chicago, in the
footsteps of the Daley dynasty.
The focus will now be on how Mr Obama remodels his team. Incoming
presidents, from John F Kennedy and Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton and
George Bush, have relied, initially at least, on a small group of trusted
advisers they have known for years. Mr Obama followed that pattern,
with a "Chicago Mafia" consisting of people like Mr Axelrod, Valerie
Jarrett and David Plouffe, his 2008 campaign manager.
But as the President's troubles have grown – his approval ratings have
fallen from over 70 per cent in early 2009 to the mid-40s today, and his
party faces heavy losses in November – so has criticism of the White House team
among many Democrats.
Mr Obama himself is increasingly, if unfairly, described as
over-analytical and short of empathy with ordinary Americans
struggling to cope with the economic downturn. The looming staff
shake-up may be his last opportunity to correct those impressions.
Exit Poll: The presidential aides on the way out
Rahm Emanuel,White House Chief of Staff
The President's chief enforcer has long hoped to be mayor of Chicago –
and the timing might suit Obama, in particular if a chastening mid-term result
dictates a more conciliatory approach to the Republicans.
Robert Gates Defence Secretary
After a lengthy period at the Pentagon, where he also served George W Bush,
Gates has made it clear that he has no intention of seeing out Obama's first
term.
He is likely to delay his departure until 2011 given the other issues now on
the President's plate.
Larry Summers Director of the National Economic Council
Although the announcement of his impending departure inevitably set tongues
wagging,
those closest to him insist it was because he did not want to lose his tenure
at Harvard.
Looming mid-terms may mean the President makes a consciously pro-business
choice of replacement.
General James Jones National Security Adviser
Once a key influence on the president's decision making on Afghanistan,
he has since fallen out badly with Obama's closest advisers.
Fallout from Bob Woodward's book detailing those relationships may
only increase his rumoured anxiety to depart before the end of the year.
David Axelrod Senior Adviser
One of the most trusted aides from the campaign,
Axelrod could depart the White House to begin work on a re-election bid.
His departure as well as Emanuel's would transform the tight-knit cabal that
surrounds Obama.
, 2010)
Controversial UIC professor denied emeritus status
Son of Robert Kennedy speaks out against Ayers
University of Illinois at Chicago professor William Ayers was
denied emeritus status Thursday by University of Illinois trustees meeting in
Urbana. (Chicago Tribune 2008
/ September 23, 2010)
ANOTHER
JUMPS: AXELROD OUT
Axelrod leaving White House
next year to work on campaign
THE MAN WHO PUT PRESIDENT OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE , Globalist Soros Launches
Frontal Assault Against Tea Party.
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 3, 2010
Soros and the foundation left have launched a website designed to go after the
growing Tea Party movement. Teapartytracker.org will post video interviews and
blog entries gathered by folks on the false left who never grow weary of
demonstrating their outrage over the very idea of a grassroots political effort
overthrowing establishment Democrats and Republicans in the district of
corporate criminals.
George Soros is desperate to trash the Tea Party. WEALTH ALONE CANNOT BuY
HAPPINESS ?
Soros
insider trading case to be reviewed...Soros insider trading case to be reviewed
By Jane Croft
Published: September 15 2010 22:59 | Last updated: September 15 2010
22:59
George Soros, the international investor and one of the world’s richest men,
is to have his 2002 criminal conviction for insider trading reviewed by the
European Court of Human Rights.
Mr Soros appealed to Strasbourg after he was convicted by a French court of
insider trading in 2002 in relation to his conduct during a takeover battle in
1988 involving one of the country’s biggest banks, Société Générale.
IN CAMBODIA OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM 1979-2010.
HAPPY ARE THOSE VIETNAMESE APPOINTED AS FAKE "CAMBODIAN"
VIETNAMESE TRICKS IN CAMBODIA THAT DENMARK SEEMS TO IGNORE?
You Ay (Vietnamese woman ) appointed as "Cambodian" Ambassador) back in Bangkok
FAKE "Cambodian" Ambassador to Thailand You Ay(A VIETNAMESE WOMAN" arrives in
Bangkok yesterday to resume her post after her Thai counterpart, Prasas
Prasasvinitchai, returned to his post in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. Thailand and
Cambodia normalised ties after former premier Thaksin Shinawatra resigned as an
adviserto Hun Sen on Monday. (Photo: The Nation)
Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia.
10 UN RESOLUTIONS,(1979-1988) VOTED BY 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES ,CALL VIETNAM TO
CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY, ARE
NOT RESPECTED AS OF TODAY.
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
BURY
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