Jarrett Directs the Purimspiel

Here is an interesting article from Edward Klein based on research for his new book The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House about Valerie Jarrett.  The indictment of Jarrett put forth by Klein only needs to be half true to get one wondering why Obama sticks with her.  I agree that Obama is "vainglorious and thin-skinned" but that would make him want to surround himself with people who, unlike Jarrett, make him successful, no? His vanity would lead him to fire her and seek other advisers, right?  Klein leads you to the obvious question - why does Obama stick with Jarrett? - but doesn't posit a clear answer.  I brought up this same issue in contemplating Kathleen Sebelius and also Janet Napolitano.    These women are atrocious and have ill-served the President as spokeswomen for his administration.

Kathleen Sebelius is certain that reducing pregnancies will cut costs and thereby justify subsidies of birth control, and yet she is completely unsure of the basic estimates of the effect of Obamacare on the federal deficit. What has always amazed me is that Barack Obama does not see this woman as a liability for him. Janet Napolitano too but that's another subject, or maybe it is the same subject...

"I stand by my February 2008 profile of Obama as a sociopath dominated by strong women."

Spengler's psychoanalysis may be spot on, but since I generally don't give much credence to that discipline I have to go with a simpler explanation:  Obama doesn't know the difference between good performance and bad performance, he only knows agreement and disagreement, obsequiousness and disobedience.

"I guess when you've never had executive authority, and thus responsibility for evaluating those working for you, you don't develop an ability to know who is good and who is bad at what they do."

Such is the price of electing a man of no accomplishment and questionable character to the highest office in the land.