Emir Obama and His Wives

Vincent J. Curtis

2 Mar 2017

The news is now out that Valerie Jarrett has moved into former President Barack Obama’s new home in Washington, D.C., with all of her belongings, in an arrangement not unlike an Arab Emir and his wives.  Jarrett, five years older than Barack Obama, was born in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents, where she lived until she was five.  As a child she spoke both Persian and French.

Jarrett met Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama in 1991, and hired Michelle to work in the Mayor’s office in Chicago.  Michelle Obama followed Jarrett when the latter moved from the Mayor’s office to Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development.  Jarrett introduced the Obamas to “a wealthier and better-connected Chicago than their own.”  Jarrett married William Jarrett in 1983, and divorced him in 1989.  William Jarrett died in 1993 at the age of 40.

Jarrett lived with Barack Obama in the White House during his years as president.  Jarrett dined with the president and Michelle Obama when she lived with them in the White House.  It is not clear whether or not she will enjoy the same privileges in Obama’s new digs, especially if Michelle has to cook.

This raises the question of the status between Michelle and Valerie, but they are said to be best friends.  They are said to be together deciding on colors, carpets, wall paper, furnishings and art, according to ‘a source.’  Valerie and Michelle have ‘big plans’ for travelling and shopping and for strategizing against President Donald Trump.

Jarrett was Obama’s closest adviser before and during his presidency.  Often described as Obama’s consigliere, Obama “doesn’t make a decision without her….Obama trusts her judgement more than any other person on the planet, as does Michelle,” according to the unnamed family friend.  Valerie Jarrett helped shape his domestic and foreign policies.

The new Obama residence is in the Kalorama section of Washington, about two miles distant from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.  At 8,200 square feet, the residence is large enough to house the three comfortably, and provide space for Obama’s reported effort to undermine his successor’s administration.  A ‘close family friend’ said that Obama’s goal is to oust Donald Trump either by forcing his resignation or by impeachment, according to reports.

Obama’s former Attorney-General Eric Holder is telling friends and allies in the progressive movement that Obama will re-enter the political scene soon.  The ex-president has come to embrace his role as the leader of the opposition against Trump, spurred on by Valerie and Michelle, and by “his loathing of Trump’s policies and whose presidency he considers illegitimate.”  In particular, Obama is “dismayed” at the tearing down of Obamacare, the removal of the welcome mat he put out for refugees, cabinet picks like Jeff Sessions, and leaving Jim Comey in place as FBI Director.

Obama blames Comey in part for Hillary Clinton’s defeat because Comey irresponsibly announced eleven days before the election that he was re-opening the investigation into Hillary’s email scandals.  Obama regards Jeff Sessions, against all evidence, as racially insensitive and therefore unfit to control the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice.

It was Valerie Jarrett who convinced Obama that he had to get himself re-involved in national politics if he expected to save his legacy, “and, as usual, he bowed to Valerie’s political wisdom and advice.”

Obama’s first foray back into the political limelight came when he opposed Trump’s Executive Order to restrict immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, leaving forty-four other countries of the OIC untouched.  Obama excused the demonstrations against Trump’s order as “citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize, and have their voices heard by their elected officials….what we expect to see when American values are at stake.”  Why Obama unnecessarily added his voice to the anti-Trump chorus was never asked of him.

The women of power around Barack Obama puts in mind the observations that Niccolo Machiavelli, author of “The Prince,” made about the irresponsible power of concubines behind the throne.  Besides Jarrett and Michelle, there was also Susan Rice, Obama's Ambassador to the UN and National Security Adviser, and Samantha Power Rice's successor as Ambassador to the UN, at the heart of Obama’s foreign policy team.  It is not widely recognized that Obama’s now former CIA Director John Brennan converted to Islam when he was posted as CIA Station Chief in Saudi Arabia.  During his college years, Brennan spent a year at the American University in Cairo taking a course in Middle Eastern studies and learning Arabic, which he speaks fluently.  And Ben Rhodes of Obama's NSA is thought to be behind the "Russian connection" information operation, or disinformation campaign, presently being waged by the Democrats, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

This is an odd assortment of dots to connect, and the question for the media is whether they will accept Emir Obama’s forthcoming campaign against Trump at face value or will they actually look under the hood and inspect the motor of the machine.  Obama's campaign being the product of what, exactly?

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