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A concern that is typical of Presidential elections was raised on this blog from time to time. What effect a candidate will have on the country in terms of the people which surround a newly elected President. As another tool in this blog’s opposition to Barack Obama for President noting those close to Obama and who would be in line for top jobs if he was elected. Valerie Jarrett was the topic of discussion in one such analysis. And this blog is not the only one suggesting a place for Jarrett in a potential Obama administration. But as Secretary of HUD is laughable.

Job One for black advocates: Back top Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett for HUD secretary. She is well-prepared for the treacheries of the Washington Beltway. Jarrett has stood down an array of Chicago characters, from cranky transit riders, vociferous public housing activists and mendacious aldermen. Her prescriptions will have the president’s ear.

If the author from this piece at the Chicago Sun Times, Laura Washington, has her way we are all in for a long painful journey that could last as much as eight years.

There will be a debt to pay.

Black folks will be ecstatic about making history, but they won’t settle for history. We are still treading on an uphill climb. A national black agenda is non-negotiable. There may be a New Black coming to the White House, but it’s still the same old USA.

Don’t hold back. Call me a racist for expressing these concerns. But you may first want to note again Valerie Jarrett’s history in housing and why the suggestion for her as a HUD Secretary is absurd.

The next two paragraphs are from an earlier post here titled, ‘ Obama Accomplice, Valerie Jarrett’ and the excerpts attributed to the Huffington Post and the Boston Globe.

WASHINGTON — “She’s always been the other side of Barack’s brain.” That’s how an Obama insider described Valerie Jarrett as an Obama campaign aide announced Thursday night the former CTA chief and current Habitat Co. CEO is taking on a larger role to help her close friend win his White House bid.

Valerie Jarrett’s involvement with Habitat Co and the dismal management of rental property in Chicago was referenced in an earlier post on this blog. Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.

The rest of the story won’t be repeated here you can read it elsewhere on this blog at the post title above. The point is Obama and Jarrett are so intricately wound into the fabric of Chicago politics and all its assorted malfeasance there is no way his ‘right brain’, Valerie Jarrett will not be critical to his administration if elected. For all the comments made about small town white Americans clinging to their guns and bibles as well as numerous references made about white voters being ‘bubba’ if they don’t vote for Obama or ‘Joe Sixpack’ or simply racist for opposing Obama’s candidacy, sentiments like those expressed by others within this post suggest racism of a different kind. The unspoken kind that works in the other direction and is never mentioned in public. Not for fear of reprisals but the reluctance to absorb the annoyance of being called a bigot for suggesting that black America is just as likely to engage in racism as white America. How’s that for equality?

An excerpt from Radarsite that was linked with the piece from Laura Washington at the Sun Times echoes a sentiment that is close enough to the one here to be presented below.

This then is to be that great vision of change we can believe in. This is to be the new message for a new America. Once again the world around us is to be torn asunder by those ‘belligerent victims’, driven to abominations by their self-righteous rage.

It is not so much the sentiment above but the idea that Barack Obama is somehow a ‘transformational’ character. His pursuit of the Presidency of the United States is in most ways no different from anyone else’s pursuit except that he is of course, black. The politics, the strategies, the ambition of an agenda and all that goes with it is typical, not transformational. This blog was never for a liberal President. Just because this liberal candidate is black will not cause the treatment of a liberal to be any different. If you would like to attach the label of racist to this blog or the author, feel free. But whether a candidate favors white liberal special interest or black liberal special interest it is still liberal special interest and not something in which conservatives would be especially interested.

Barack Obama’s pursuit of the Office of President of the United States is just as corrupt with special interest and flawed associations as any other. The rhetoric while sometimes eloquent does not change that fact.

Here’s another possible scenario for the effects of an Obama administration. Yes, let’s let the slumlord with Chicago political machine credentials become a United States Senator.

Senator who?
October 21, 2008
BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist

Sneed hears the name of Valerie Jarrett, who is this/close to Barack Obama, is high on Obama’s short list to replace him in the U.S. Senate!

Another Jarrett excerpt from an ABC report…..

Jarrett also downplayed the multiple criminal investigations in Indiana and several other states of alleged voter registration fraud on behalf of Barack Obama by the activist community organization ACORN, which was one of Obama’s former law clients.

ACORN has not received one penny from this campaign. And we’ve had a grassroots campaign. We have volunteers who are working throughout the country. We have a grassroots organization where we haven’t had to depend on funding local organizations. We’re doing the work ourselves,” Jarrett said.

Wrong again Valerie. The Obama campaign gave $800,000 to ACORN. This is why Valerie Jarrett should not be in the Obama campaign but more importantly another reason why Obama should not be elected

This blog continues to support McCain/Palin for President and Vice-President in 2008.

Stanford Matthews
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