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More: “Daley, 63, who remains at the White House until after the president delivers his State of the Union speech later this month, will be named a co-chairman of Obama's re-election campaign, according to a senior campaign official who requested anonymity because the campaign has yet to officially announce the appointment.”
The L.A. Times: “After a frustrating year of setbacks and bruising fights with Republicans, President Obama accepted the resignation of Chief of Staff William Daley and turned to a Washington veteran in an attempt to improve White House operations and the administration's dealings with Congress.”
Bloomberg: “The departure of White House Chief of Staff William Daley reflects President Barack Obama’s choice to abandon a strategy of seeking accommodation with congressional Republicans and his critics in corporate America. Daley’s resignation a year after taking the job is a ‘not inevitable but logical consequence’ of Obama’s movement since September toward confrontation with Congress, said William Galston, who was a domestic policy adviser to former President Bill Clinton.”
Politico’s Thrush: “Bill Daley was never a great fit inside the West Wing. He had an even rockier relationship with key Hill Democrats, especially Harry Reid, so the tears aren’t exactly flowing today — even though most White House staffers bear no personal animosity to Daley.”
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One corrupt Chicago politician gets pissy and fires another corrupt Chicago politician.
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Apparently Donkey Mouth cannot get along with any of her husbands aides.
And as is typical of the right, you get the story wrong. Your Fox talking points are outdated, try to come up with something original not 'corrupt Chicago politician'.
This is not news, (if you paid attention you'd know that), it is a professional decision not a personal one, furthermore, his replacement will give the gang on the Hill more than they know what to do with.
Your disgusting disrespect for our First Lady, really says more about you and your upbringing than anything else. Your mother must be so proud.
Because you had nothing but glowing praise about Ms. Palin and Ms. Bachmann???
yeeeaaaahhhh right
Michael it's sad you live your life so angry.
Michael is just another Neanderthal racist. Facts don't matter and hate is a motivator to old fashioned white trash. It is probably good to be aware that a few of these still exist, in spite of modern science, social progress, and the Constitution.
I have to admit that the "Donkey Mouth" comment is probobly a little to accurate for many of the readers on this site to accept. Maybe you should use something racial so that the canned "You are a racist" responses to anything anti-obama would actually be founded.
Like the rightwing treats Nancy Pelosi with kid gloves, please.
Palin and Bachmann are politicians running for office, Michelle Obama is the President's wife. She isn't hurting you, she's getting kids to exercise. Have a little class.
Can you explain the term 'donkey mouth'? I'd like to know what "comment is probobly a little to accurate for many of the readers on this site to accept" before I make any further reply.
It don't google so I need it explained to me.
Amy,
Is the so called "Donkey mouth" spending our tax dollars on parties and vacations? If so, then I think that opens her up to critisism from tax payers. If there is turnover in the white house staff because she cannot get along or behave like a first lady is expected to, again she may be called to the carpet for her antics.
I like that she wants kids to exersize. Don't we all? I don't like that she decided to change the food pyramid.
You will have to check with Michael, as he was the one to first use the term here today, but my guess is that it depicts her as the mouthpiece for the Democratic party whose mascot is a donkey. I'm not sure how to get a racial undertone to it. Donkeys are generally grey, not black.
My bad, I apologize......It's just my term for someone that has crooked alligator teeth. I just figured since the Obama's are part of the 1% crowd maybe they could head over to "Teeth-R-Us" and buy her some Invisalign.
I figured since all of the liberal loons commented on Palin and her kids, a First Lady was definately open game......correct??
But their kids weren't.....
See, that's the problem. The liberal loons had noooo prob trashing the personal family of a female that they were threatened by but the minute that someone comments on an OBVIOUS unattractive feature of our First Lady and we're racists and scum.
Try not to be hypocrites and lighten up.
So Michael, you are the Bachmann/ Palin Defender? You must not have heard of the golden rule, or "be the bigger person"? I am going to guess you either just graduated high school, or did not graduate at all.
David Letterman apologised for making a joke about the possibility of Palin's daughter being picked up by A-rod (a joke based more on the athlete's history with women, then on the Palin daughter, herself.) When can we expect an apology from you Michael for making crass and untrue comments about the First Lady?
Oh, never, that's right. And that's more a reflection on you than on Mrs. Obama.
Now I have to laugh.
I do NOT condone Michael's remark reflecting on Mrs. Obama's dental issues;I DO, however, find it ludicrous that the very people who comment on the hairstyle of one candidate's wife, (there were about three hundred comments- and you were there, too, Amy- in at least three different alter egos), suddenly find it distasteful to comment on the looks of a politician's wife.
Bunch of hypocrites.
Gosh michael, you must have really had it in for elephant but nancy! After all she did something Michelle never did, she actually broke up another woman's home, took their dad away from 2 small children (would not let ronnie's kids with her have any contact with Jane's children for many years - per Patty Davis' book), and any chief of staff had to have her approval of her astronomer and make sure the stars lined up! lol, you sure got short term memory loss pretty early in life didn't ya?
Even my Libertarian brother objected when Rush Limbaugh denegrated Hillary Clinton, back in the 90's. My brother said, then, it's unAmerican to oppose a President by attacking his wife.
It's okay, though, to attack a candidate's wife? Does that explain your attacks on Cindy McCain, or Callista Gingrich?
To move General officers and field commanders quickly and efficiently into key roles is essential for a great commander. I noticed that Daley is being reassigned and not leaving the Obama administration. Of course the FOX "foreign owned news corp" will see it differently.