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Posted By merrimarie 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political News
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Valerie Jarrett announced the other day that “we’re going to speak truth to power.”

Who’s Valerie Jarrett? She’s “Senior Advisor” to the president of the United States — i.e., the leader of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth -- “I think that what the administration has said very clearly is that we’re going to speak truth to power. When we saw all of the distortions in the course of the summer, when people were coming down to town-hall meetings and putting up signs that were scaring seniors to death. . . . ”

Ah, right. People “putting up signs.” Can’t have that, can we? The most powerful woman in the inner circle of the most powerful man on earth has decided to speak truth to powerful people standing in the street with handwritten placards saying “THIS GRAN’MA ISN’T SHOVEL READY.” Was it only a week ago that I wrote about this administration’s peculiar need for domestic enemies?

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    alanocu1 month, 2 weeks ago

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    If Obama was any more of a sissy, he'd appoint a pickle-jar-opening czar

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      Tasine1 month, 2 weeks ago

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      Alan, I think you have him pretty well pegged.

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        Tasine1 month, 2 weeks ago

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        Am I the only person in the free world who thinks "truth to power" sounds silly and slightly like something either a hippy or a gang member would come up with?

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        thoughtsonthis1 month, 2 weeks ago

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        This is the same woman who was involved with the housing fraud in Chicago. What truth?

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