(Preamble: Typepad's html editor is making me crazy!)
From Michelle Malkin:
[Rogers is] the intimate Chicago fund-raising crony of Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett who was once married to fellow Obama crony and frequent White House visitor John Rogers, chief executive of multi-billion-dollar Ariel Capital Management. They both bundled hundreds of thousands in donations for Team Obama before Desiree was appointed to head the White House social secretary’s office — an office smack dab in the middle of the Crasher-gate scandal that is smellier than week-old Thanksgiving turkey.
Rogers and the other two mentioned at the beginning serve the Obama Administration in
roles great and small; all have demonstrated basic incompetence or committed
mind-bogglingly stupid blunders and/or venal acts within their fields of
operation in the Administration; and all are black. Then there’s Barack Obama
himself.
Are these factors significant for any reason besides the obvious? Yes and the reason is the same one to which I’ve been pointing for a little while now.
I posted this at Jeff Goldstein's place. I
have edited it a bit:
There
are plenty of persons who are black and who are competent in law, medicine,
security, social planning, etc. But to hire any of them would deprive Obama of
wielding his (and/or his puppeteer’s) heretofore pretty successful tactic:
hurling accusations of racism. Thus are incompetents from Eric Holder to
Desiree Rogers installed into place to wreck havoc. And Leftists will fall for
the racism tactic every time. One might say that the tactic is part of the
Obama Doctrine.
This
whole brouhaha about the “security breach” is yet another of his methods of
sowing racial discord. But since it’s pretty elaborate, I don’t think that it
originated with Obama.
The fact that that Michaele
and Tareq Salahi managed to get themselves into last week's White House state
dinner, seemingly
without an invitation has caused many observers to upbraid the Secret Service.
And whether blame can legitimately fall on them or not, it's likely that it
will be stoically accepted by the organization in general and by its individual
members in particular. They don't whine.
But Michelle thinks that the blame
should fall on Rogers,
as do I. From the former link (Newsweek):
[Former White House Assistant for Arrangements Cathy Hargraves] job duties included overseeing the invitations for guests at state dinners and keeping track of RSVPs, she says. On the evening of state dinners, she says, she physically stood at the East Gate portico entrance and greeted each of the guests as they arrived, checking their names off a computerized printout of those who had been invited.
But when she met with Rogers last February and went over her job responsibilities, she says, the new social secretary told her, “We don’t feel we have a need for that anymore.” Rogers’s explanation, according to Hargraves: “In these economic times, I don’t think we’re going to have very many lavish expensive dinners. It wouldn’t look very good.”
And the latter (AP):
During
President George W. Bush's administration, it was standard procedure to have
someone from the White House social office at the gate for state dinners and
other events with large groups of visitors, according to a former senior Bush
aide who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to be seen as criticizing
the Obama White House.
The
social office is most knowledgeable about the guest list and could have been
called in case of any uncertainty, this official said.
White
House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, asked by The Associated Press on
Thursday whether personnel from her office were at the checkpoint said,
"We were not."
If President Obama merely wanted to give competent black Americans a chance in
these areas, he had a number from which to choose. Even one would suffice.
But that would defeat the purpose. Therefore, the president—and/or his puppeteers—appoint incompetents or cronies. (Cronies are okay if greasing the right palms isn’t all they know how to do.)
And when white people begin to call for the resignations of such people or begin to
speculate openly that maybe, perhaps black people really are inferior, the
accusation of racism can be hurled. And the anger, frustration and bitterness
gets upped yet one more notch.
I
don’t see how the rest of you keep falling for it.
(via Darleen Click)
UPDATE: The Anchoress wonders whether there is a power struggle going on between the White House and the Secret Service. Of course, she makes her case.
The HORs will investigate.
