"Obama's Valerie Jarrett: Often Whispered about, But Never Challenged"
October 29, 2013
John Fund on the President's senior advisor:
Whether Jarrett’s influence is all too real or exaggerated is unknowable. What is known is the extent to which she has long been a peerless enabler of Barack Obama’s inflated opinion of himself. Consider this quote from New Yorker editor David Remnick’s interview with her for his 2010 book The Bridge.
“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
And in case you missed it, Ms. Jarrett apparently set a modern U.S. political record for mendacity when she tweeted this:
FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.