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 Facing More Controversy Over Rahm

U.S. President Barack Obama

Last week, Obama's self-proclaimed "Chicago mafia" lost one of its members to a resignation, when the nation's first black Social Secretary, Desiree Rogers, regrettably vacated her post, due to the scandal the Salahis created in crashing a White House state dinner.

This week, the pressure is on for Obama to rein in or relieve Rahm Emanuel of his duties as Chief-Of-Staff. The Judiciary Report does not agree with Rahm's tinseltown tactics in government, as it needs to be left where it belongs, in Hollywood.

There's no place for Hollywood styled decision-making in government, as that is an oxymoron. Most Hollywood shot callers make said plays with a trail of cocaine up their noses, hence the flamboyance, flagrance and lack of frugality and fiduciary responsibility. That does not have any place in a house of government.

Rahm Emanuel

The nation would also be well served in taking a closer look at President Obama's financial advisors, as they are running amok, dispensing terrible advice the President is following to the letter.

America is going to be a very different place by the end of Obama's term if this keeps up. Poverty and financial ruin are on the way with the policies they have set in motion, which they refuse to listen to sound advice on, believing they can suspend the laws of mathematics. Einstein couldn't do it, neither can you.

Obama's New Social Secretary

U.S. President Barack Obama

U.S. President Obama, has appointed a new social secretary, Julianna Smoot, to fill the role of outgoing staff member, Desiree Rogers, who resigned last week. It must be difficult having to replace a friend.

Julianna Smoot

N.C. native named White House social secretary

Posted: Monday, Mar. 01, 2010 - North Carolina native Julianna Smoot has been named the new White House social secretary. Smoot, who was finance director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, replaces Desiree Rogers who came under criticism when a socialite couple crashed a White House party last year, Rob Christensen reports.

Smoot, 41, grew up in Southern Pines and Clinton where her father was a golf pro and her mother was a school teacher. Her parents now live in the Wake County town of Willow Springs.

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