Desiree Rogers Pushed Out

Obama on Desiree Rogers: she was fine like Halle Berry, but we had to let her go!

According to an article in the New York Times, the former Social Secretary of U.S. President, Barack Obama, was pushed out, due to her high profile, interviews she granted and glamorous looks. There were also rumored run-ins with the First Lady, Michelle Obama.

Desirée Rogers

Obama Social Secretary Ran Into Sharp Elbows

Published: March 11, 2010 - Desirée Rogers drew criticism for her high profile as social secretary in the Obama White House. WASHINGTON — Long before the State Dinner party crashers and the tension with her White House colleagues and the strain in her relationship with the first lady, Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned her to his office last spring to scold her.

Ms. Rogers had appeared in another glossy magazine, posing in a White House garden in a borrowed $3,495 silk pleated dress and $110,000 diamond earrings. But if the image was jarring in a time of recession, Mr. Axelrod was as bothered by the words and her discussion of “the Obama brand” and her role in promoting it, according to people informed about the conversation.

“The president is a person, not a product,” he was said to tell her. “We shouldn’t be referring to him as a brand.” The confrontation that day between Ms. Rogers, the White House social secretary, and Mr. Axelrod, the senior adviser to President Obama, put at odds two longtime Chicago friends of the first family...

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Obama's Social Secretary Resigns

U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama

Desiree Rogers, the social secretary of U.S. President, Barack Obama, has resigned from her job, which is regrettable, as she is the first black woman to hold the post. She was largely blamed for the Secret Service's failures, in allowing a couple to gatecrash the President's first state dinner, which was not fair.

Desiree Rogers

Rogers should not have resigned. Sasha and Malia could have been running over my foot every day with their tricycles, I would not have quit my post over another employee's blunder.

The Salahis gatecrashed the White House

The only way she should have quit, is if she slept with Mr. Obama and since he is not dead, via the First Lady killing him for cheating, you should not have left the White House.

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White House social secretary steps down

02:35 PM - The fallout from the White House party-crashers debacle continues: White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, the Obama pal who was the first black social secretary, will step down next month to pursue opportunities in the corporate world, according to the Chicago Sun-Times and the online magazine The Root.

Her departure had been likely ever since the first state dinner in November, reports USA TODAY's Maria Puente, when Tareq and Michaela Salahi, two Virginia reality-show-wannabes who were not invited to the party, got into the White House and even rubbed elbows with the president and vice-president...

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