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And in our our paranoid friend's head in Chicago ...

 

Yeah, the boy wonder was just a bit player.

Rhodes strategized and ran the successful Iran-deal messaging campaign, helped negotiate the opening of American relations with Cuba after a hiatus of more than 50 years and has been a co-writer of all of Obama’s major foreign-policy speeches.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/...o-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html?_r=0

 

How big do you suppose made up Jarrett's detail?

It takes a lot of people to provide 24/7/365 coverage.

Meanwhile, her own co-workers suspected her detail had more to do with status than with security.

Jarrett has had Secret Service protection throughout her service, something fellow White House aides reportedly didn't understand.

"While a high-profile White House official — especially an African-American woman, such as Jarrett — could legitimately be considered a more likely target than most, several West Wing officials I spoke to were dubious there had been any special threats against her," author Mark Leibovich wrote in the book "This Town."

"They suspected, rather, that Jarrett asked the president to authorize a detail out of 'earpiece envy,'" Leibovich wrote.

Former Harry Reid aide takes parting shot at Valerie Jarrett

 

2>1. Hence PLANES. From the article...


A U.S. official said Syrian planes took off from the base today but did not confirm the action taken by the plane.


"Planes took off."

 

I thought Trump and his administration was going to drain the swamp and act responsibly and be fiscally conservative. That's utter bullshit. I'd like to know what MarALago bills the federal government for the use of the property every weekend. He and his people are the biggest welfares whores in American history.

As far as Jarrett, imagine an arrogant under-qualified person in the White House with a huge sense of entitlement?

 

Someone is going to say a variation on 'Not hard to imagine, we had it from 2009-2017' in 3, 2, 1...

 

Doesn't it hurt your back to run around with the goalposts like that? The report was correct, right?

 

As close as family could be? Man, you are getting desperate on this one. Even if it is true, that isn't the same thing as family.

 

President Trump opened this door with the unnecessary expenses he has created for the Secret Service. He made it a story, so now it is going to be an issue anything else like this comes up with his administration.

He also earned the distrust by breaking precedent regarding his records and his business interests.

 

"A Democrat may have done something wrong so Republicans should get a free pass on everything forever" is the logic of an intellectual stillborn.

 

Military force has been deployed. Whers’s the plan for victory? What’s even the definition of victory? Absent and absent. What Trump has done is the kind of military action famously derided by George W. Bush as firing a $2 million missile into a $10 tent and hitting a camel in the butt. Trump’s strike was symbolic and demonstrative, not decisive. It signaled, but did not compel. It leaves the Syrian and Russian leadership an array of options about how to respond—and it may well have committed the United States to potential next steps that the president did not imagine and does not intend.

Seven Disturbing Implications of Trump's Syria Strike