Washington (CNN) - Melody Barnes, the domestic policy adviser to President Barack Obama, is leaving the White House, the administration said Thursday.
Her departure will come at the end of the year, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
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I hope it is not because the republicans have ruined our country with their continued class warfare against the 99%. Next November election, we should see the end of the republican gridlock in our congress, and hopefully we can get back to making our country great.
No. it's because she realized the domestic policy she has advised Obama to follow has not worked and she wants to get while the getting is good...
@Wire Palladin, S. F.,
So would you rather it be because the Dems/libs at are ruining the country? That make it better? How about both parties have fouled up! BOTH!
scott wrote:
No. it's because she realized the domestic policy she has advised Obama to follow has not worked and she wants to get while the getting is good...
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There were similar comments when David Axelrod left the administration.
Steveo- The track record for republicans is to take care of the the wealthy and the big corporations, not only with their rhetoric, but their actions. While would like to see elected officials put our country first, and at this point, it will only happen if we remove the obstructionist GOP.
Steveo....your correct. Neither one should lay blame at the other. Both step up and say we messed up. Hell even one party doing that would be great.
I agree with Steveo......both parties suck!
Another rat fleeing a sinking ship. If she was an "domestic policy advisor" she should have been fired long ago for incompetence. Obama will receive his pink slip Nov. 2012 for his incompetence.
@ Steveo
You may as well forget trying to talk to people like Wire Palladin, Sniffit, etc. They're already convinced that every single Republican is the enemy of this country. They have a "us Vs. them" mentality, but will never admit that the Democrats have just as many problems as a political party as the Republicans do.
The 99% ? Wire go hit the NYC streets. I'll send you a personalized comforter and pillow to the park for you.
It is DEMOCRATS that have destroyed the country! God damn the treasonous lying DEMOCRATS!
She needs to go but her records must be preserved for the coming trials!
Melody Barnes had the very large corner office in the West Wing. Before moving into the WH – she was an Executive VP at Center for American Progress – a very far left, Soros supported operation. She made big bucks – but I don't know what she ACTUALLY did to earn her keep – or if she was planted in the WH to keep an eye on Barry for George.
She made big bucks – but I don't know what she ACTUALLY did to earn her keep – or if she was planted in the WH to keep an eye on Barry for George.
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No doubt worked the strings on the Obama puppet we see on TV all the time...
Barnes made right decision. Good luck in future.
Republicans were not their fault. Same to Democrats.
If Melody was a good adviser for America, she'd advise obama to leave the White House also !!!
Information about the Center for American Progress, for those who are interested, is easily accessible via the web, so don't rely on propaganda spewing trolls like NoGovtBondage for the truth, Soros no more "controls" CFAP than he does Media Matters. Donations do not equal control.
"You may as well forget trying to talk to people like Wire Palladin, Sniffit, etc. They're already convinced that every single Republican is the enemy of this country. They have a "us Vs. them" mentality, but will never admit that the Democrats have just as many problems as a political party as the Republicans do."
It's the "just as many" part that I disagree with...not to mention the characterization of Dem and GOP problems as equal not just in number, but in character and quality. False equivalencies are lazy thinking...an abject refusal to spend the invest the intellectual capital in forming a nuanced understanding of the issues...and I really don't owe you any deeper of an explanation than that. If you can't find any nuance or detail or facts, data, evidence, historical record, etc., with which to inform yourself so you can recognize and understand the distinctions and differences, then kudos...you're a very typical American voter and precisely the type of person the MSM is targetting.
R wrote:
They're already convinced that every single Republican is the enemy of this country. They have a "us Vs. them" mentality, but will never admit that the Democrats have just as many problems as a political party as the Republicans do.
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Can you blame them? You certainly will not hear me fault them for the feelings, maybe the delivery styles on occasion. But, I cannot fault them for their feelings. Better to let them express their feelings than to act them out, I say.
"but I don't know what she ACTUALLY did to earn her keep"
your and most GOP/Teatroll posters that frequent CNN and their mindless regurgitation of substanceless talking points. I swear you guys are making Reynolds crazy profits with all the tinfoil you're burning through.
"but I don't know what she ACTUALLY did to earn her keep"
Indeed. You DON'T know. That pretty much explains your and most GOP/Teatroll posters that frequent CNN and their mindless regurgitation of substanceless talking points. I swear you guys are making Reynolds crazy profits with all the tinfoil you're burning through.
Thanks for proving my point Sniffit. Instead of acknowledging that both parties have serious problems that need to be addressed, you only find fault with my "just as many" part.
Maybe we can make a new reality show: 'As the Ship Sinks'
@Rudy NYC. I am a moderate that has voted Republican. I will likely never vote Republican again, because there are no moderates allowed in the party any more. In effect the party consists of apocalyptic types who ignore the world's problem's because God is going to rescue the chosen ones, evangelicals who are so consumed by the right of the unborn that this dwarfs their compassion for those who are born, full out racists who comprise roughly 20% of the country, and wealthy tycoons who, for the most part, have selfishly vanquished any history of philanthropy - however effective or limited that might have been.
"They have a "us Vs. them" mentality"
Sure do...and it's not a "feeling," Rudy...it's a unwanted but accepted sad truth that is more than adequately supported by the facts, evidence, historical record, etc., that WE NEED TO DEFEND OURSELVES from the GOP/Teatroll push for plutocracy. I didn't choose to have an "us Vs. them" mentality...I was forced to accept one when it was made readily apparently by "them's" behavior, policies, actions, statements, etc., and their results that "them" don't give a crap about "us" and are actively trying to subdue and control "us" to serve "them's' narrow self-interest in wealth and power and control.