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September 10, 2009
Valerie Jarrett Obama's Closest Adviser and Communist Sympathizer
Communist sympathizer introduced top adviser?
By Aaron Klein
Valerie Jarrett's family worked closely with Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis
Was Valerie Jarrett, one of President Obama's closest advisers, introduced to the president's political circles by her father-in-law, a communist sympathizer who worked with the radical Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis?
Jarrett reportedly interviewed Obama's former environmental adviser Van Jones for his White House position from which he resigned this past weekend. WND exposed Jones is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist.
Jarrett defended Jones after his appointment in March. She stated in an interview that the White House staff were "so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House."
"We were watching him, uh, really, for as long as he's been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House," she said.
In the vicinity of Oakland, Calif., Jones founded several radical organizations, including the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, as well as the socialist-oriented Ella Baker Human Rights Center.
Fox News yesterday reported the White House said Jones never filled out a seven-page questionnaire the Obama team previously touted as necessary for incoming administration officials, leaving some to speculate Jarrett may have been instrumented in pushing Jones through.
Jarrett's family background and her initial introduction to Obama may tie her to Jones' radical ideology.
Jarrett's father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was an associate of Frank Marshall Davis, the controversial labor movement activist who has been identified as an early influence on Obama.
Vernon Jarrett and Davis worked together in 1940 in a Communist Party-dominated organization, the Citizen's Committee to Aid Packing House Workers. The group's own correspondence, previously uncovered by the New Zeal blog, describes its communist influence. Many of its leaders were tied to the Communist Party.
The pair also frequented the South Side Community Art Center, which was dominated by communists. In addition, Davis and Vernon Jarrett worked in the late 1940s on the communist influenced, black-run Chicago Defender newspaper.
In 1948, Jarrett started a radio show, "Negro Newsfront," and went on to become the Chicago Tribune's first black syndicated columnist.
A Washington Post obituary of Jarrett notes he "stoked the political embers in Chicago that led to the 1983 election of the city's first African-American mayor, Harold Washington."
"Vernon Jarrett was a key influence in Washington's decision to run for the Chicago mayoralty and remained a key supporter through his four-year tenure," the newspaper reported.
Obama has hailed Washington's victory as a motivation for him to move to Chicago from New York. Washington was involved in communist-dominated circles in Chicago.
Jarrett clearly watched the rise of Obama as an activist. When Obama worked for Project Vote to register black voters with the intent of aiding the senatorial campaign of Carol Moseley Braun, Jones took note. Obama later took over Braun's senate seat.
Writing in the Chicago Sun-Times in 1992, Jarrett noted: "Good news! Good news! Project Vote, a collectivity of 10 church-based community organizations dedicated to black voter registration, is off and running. ... If Project Vote is to reach its goal of registering 150,000 out of an estimated 400,000 unregistered blacks statewide, 'it must average 10,000 rather than 7,000 every week,' says Barack Obama, the program's executive director."
Valerie Jarrett married Vernon's son, William Robert Jarrett, in 1983.
In 1987, she got her start in politics, working for Washington as former deputy corporation counsel for finance and development. She was deputy chief of staff for Mayor Richard Daley, during which time she hired Michelle Robinson, then engaged to Obama.
Valerie Jarrett did not immediately return a WND request for comment about her father-in-law's involvement in her landing a spot in Washington, which later brought her into Obama's circle.
She went on to run the finances for Obama's senate bid in 2004, the year Vernon Jarrett died.
Currently, Jarrett is touted as one of Obama's closest advisers.
Wild Thing's comment.......
Obama is a communist. And he must be removed from office. It is also quite clear that the Obama administration is infested with communist or communist sympathizing vermin. Does Obama even know ANYONE that is NOT a communisit???
We must never stop bringing this man, Obama to light. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and a few others are doing this and we are too.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at September 10, 2009 07:49 AM
Comments
It is still difficult for me to face the reality that obama is President. He is an anti-American Marxist and a probable muslim. He surrounds himself with known communists and radicals. How could he have been elected?
During the election obama did little to hide his Marxist agenda. Yet lots of voters chose him. Are there that many socialists/Marxists in America? Are there that many Black racists and race guilty Whites? Has America been dumbed down that much? Is American Idol the thought of the day?
Since he has been in office obama has chosen one extreme Leftist after another to fill positions. When he receives enough heat on it, obama just tosses them under the bus and picks another like soul. Valerie Jarrett's credential as a communist have not come as a surprise. Her affiliations are not secrets.
This obama administration is so socialist that I hope there is a major voter backlash against it in 2010 and again in 2012. In the meantime we have to worry about how much it will weaken and damage America, both culturally and economically. We also need to worry about obama and the Dem Congress weakening our military enough that makes us more liable for another war.
Posted by: TomR at September 10, 2009 12:26 PM
TomR, it wouldn't have mattered who ran opposite the 1/2 breed, the country was so anti-Bush that if Hitler were the candidate, he'd have won. The goal now, is to get the kool aid drinkers off of his tit and kick him to the curb. Of course if he had an aneurysm today, I'd be partying big time.
Posted by: cuchieddie(former Army Infantry) at September 10, 2009 03:09 PM
I looked up Valerie Jarret, she's a real piece of work. Almost like how David Horowitz grew up a Red-Diaper Baby. Her Father was/is a Communist big time. He hung out with Obama's mentor Frank marshal Davis.
When she said we have been keeping on eye on Van Jones, she meant, her and obama, they are two peas in a pod. He wasn't vetted, they knew exactly what they were getting, a radical Communist, he just couldn't keep his mouth shut. As they say, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, he got what he was asking for. He will however, do more damage outside the white house than in.
Where the hell is Joe McCarthy when we really need him.
Posted by: Mark at September 10, 2009 06:30 PM
It was easier to get rid of 'tailgunner Joe' than to get rid of the communists. Joseph McCarthy was very much a patriot. When the communists won, they got to write the history of the senator. And it's none too flattering. A shame.
Posted by: Jim at September 10, 2009 07:41 PM
Tom, I am exactly the same, it is like I
am in snock at all of this. I thought more
Americans loved America. Maybe they do
but I have to ask why didn't they love
America enough to listen to the information
about Obama and what he was.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 10, 2009 11:09 PM
Mark, yessssss
"Where the hell is Joe McCarthy when we really need him."
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 10, 2009 11:12 PM
Jim, I agree, Joe McCarthy did good
and loved our country.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 10, 2009 11:13 PM
Valerie Jarrett is undoubtedly a woman of power and influence.
Obama has in-fact said that he makes NO decision without her.
Jarrett is also a far-left subversive radical who's completely obsessed with racial issues... and was never properly vetted by the MSM, let alone anybody in the White House.
And this woman was Van Jones' recruiter, biggest supporter, and cheerleader. And the corruption she was involved with through Habitat Corp and Tony Rezko back in Chi-town is appalling-
Posted by: Reaganite Republican at September 16, 2009 05:46 PM
