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Robert Gibbs Stepping Down, To Become Outside Advisor To President On Re-Election Campaign
The biggest spin master in the Obama administration, Press secretary Robert Gibbs, who obstinately had refused to answer Zero Hedge questions about the economic "recovery" in his daily tweeter sessions, has joined pretty much everybody else in dumping the titanic that is the Obama administration. There is one thing we can be sure of, however, Tim Geithner, the only man who is officially on economic retainer (yet gets about 1% the use of Goldman's Jan Hatzius when it comes to monetary and fiscal policy) will be forever by Obama's side.
From Marketwatch:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs will leave the Obama
administration and become an outside political adviser to President
Barack Obama and his re-election campaign, the New York Times reported
Wednesday. Gibbs said he intends to leave in early February, the
newspaper reported. The White House confirmed the story.
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Gee, what happened to going into public service? What happened to joining a non-profit.
Oh, I forgot, all pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others....
All is good.
William Daley, a JP Morgue banking executive & former commerce secretary in the Clinton Administration (helping to speed passage of such gems as giving China MFN trade status) is set to become ObaMao's Chief-Of-Staff.
I'm sure they'll find someone as pure and 'of the people' to replace Gibbs.
What could possibly go wrong?
Daley, the son of the Chicago mafioso mayor is replacing Summers, I thought. Cheif of Staff would be a huge slap in the face to the American public. More than anything it would show the people that are viewd as a lower class who is boss. The banksters think it is they who are the boss, for anyone not in the know.
I've seen nothing to suggest that Obama does not agree with them, except maybe some hot air in a speech or two.
That was the last I had heard, also, LH.
Then...boom...out of nowhere:
Barack Obama approaches William Daley over chief of staff role
Instead of pretending that there is such a thing as government away from business, why not change the mission statement of America to 'Doing what is in the best interest of the banking houses.'
Who's the next Baghdad Bob?
harwood from cnbc - he s already doing the job
Tyler, you pretty much just described pissing in the wind.
of all the white house operators gibbs was always the most cartoon like image on the new xtranormal type sites.....he has nothing on hanna/barbara...disney...walter luntz[?]...etc
Gibbs always called to mind Peter Griffin, the "Family Guy." Heading back to Quahog, Rhode Island. "See ya' -- wouldn't wanna' be ya' !"
Along those lines, Gibbs reminded me of "Piggy" from Lord of the Flies. Not sure why, but I'd bet my bottom FRN that the guy can't climb more than 2 flights of stairs without getting winded.
My specs!
I hate to go off topic here, but Jim Rickards is reporting on large 'clients' of European banks, having to have their attorneys theaten banks, in order to 'liberate' their own, physical gold:
"A client of a major Swiss bank was recently refused access to his physical gold and had to hire attorneys and threaten to expose the bank publicly before finally getting it back in his own hands, according to Jim Rickards of Omnis.
“My inference is that that gold was not there,” Rickards told King World News. “The bank had to scramble, go out and find it somewhere before they could make good delivery.” "
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/...2/07/id/379238
And the speculation is reaching a boiling point that institutions selling and not delivering physical PMs have probably sold exponentionally larger amounts of PMs than they will ever be able to deliver.
That Moneynews link is dead.....? So fast?
You can say that again!
That news is 2-4 weeks old, me thinks
It is indeed, but it was new to me, so I figured it might be for others.
As they say, you either have physical in your possession, or you have scratch.
Personally, I can't understand people who are smart enough to own gold, but stupid enough to keep it in a bank.
It's like saying, "You know, I don't trust your funny-money criminal enterprise, but here, please safeguard my gold for me."
*facepalm*
Like Scotia, who made that woman with terminal Cancer come down to the main branch in Toronto, and then still tried to stonewall her until they finally relented and gave up the silver that was rightfully hers. Harvey Organ also talked about difficulty in getting a 3rd party in to audit the Scotia vault.
Sounds to me like they just don't have the goods.
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Swiss-Bank-Refuses-Release/2010/12/0...
Try this one.
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Swiss-Bank-Refuses-Release/2010/12/07/id/379238
That Moneynews link is dead.....? So fast?
In brokerage accounting it's called a "fail to receive". nothing to see here move along but sell gold because there's a FIRE IN THE THEATRE
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Swiss-Bank-Refuses-Release/2010/12/0...
James Turk reported other instances of the same thing. A client pays a Bankster to secure/hold his silver only to find their metal is not in the vault when he asks for delivery. BLUF: Banksters are Criminals; don't trust Banksters.
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2010/12/8_Turk_-_Swiss_Bank_Client_Battles_Over_2_Months_For_His_Silver.html
GoldMoney.com my friends. It belongs to James Turk.
Yesterday a local pawn shop owner was beaten to death by a customer trying to get his silver coins out of pawn and the broker couldnt produce the coins. Mad Max soon.
Link please.
With Scarboro running again get ready for Morning Gibblet.
would be an improvement. Small? Yes.
The Ds are letting Obama run for re-election?
Zero's approval numbers are back to 50%, with 80% of Democrats approving of his job performance.
No accident that stocks are acting so strong. Especially bank and tech stocks.
Because the Obama administration is history.
I have no idea who is going to be the next President.
But the market started discounting "change" over a year ago.
Don't get yourself twisted. Gold pulls back, equity pulls back. Equity has not and will not gain when gold is being tortured. Once the Fed is done leasing their tungsten or whatever make believe reserves they have, all prices will bounce back, relative to the dollar of course. Blythe can try to go against the grain but it is like rolling a boulder up a hill.
Replicate gold tungsten is supposedly flooding the market and making its way past traditional checks & measures, leading many to allege that only a government could produce such passable 'fool's gold.'
I won't cite anything yet, because much of this is being reported on some less than completely credible source sites.
Wouldn't it be O'Henry-ironic if the jacked market that anticipates his demise propels his popularity among the banksters and oligarchs (who, after all, are the only ones that matter), resulting in his re-election?
@robodunce
One of your most inspid comments and that takes some doing.
Check out your dearmarkets returns in the 3rd year of any admin and get back to us.
next preznit, you really think it matters?
What a tool you must be.
bush clinton bush bama ...........zero zero zero zero zero.
You "people" and your market anticipation really make for a good laugh.
What if the next preznit was Robert Kahre? ;-)
Who will be the next president is simple (it's been the same answer all of my life). It will be an elite puppet, vetted by Kissenger, Soros, Rockefeller, et al.
To pretend that the name of the puppet means anything is to ignore who is pulling their strings. Even the D or R designation is meaningless, as all it affects is the flavor of their rhetoric, and which direction the "center" is approached from. (that ole swinging political pendulum which empowers the forces of divide and conquer)
To believe a puppet can cut loose from their bondage, is to ignore the lesson of the "Kennedy Curse."
If by some strange turn of events a true outsider like Ron Paul does get elected, they will crash everything and blame it all on him, ensuring that he will be unable to effect positive change.
"I have no idea who is going to be the next President."
common Robo dont be so modest. You must have a slight idea...here is a clue the last name starts with an "O"
In other words he was FIRED !
Noble Peace Prize?
Glib Gibbs.
Rats, Titanic.....
For Omama's re-election campaign at that. That was a snorter.
*snort*
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/stairwell-sigtar/
Election campaign? What are you talkin' about. Election campaign? You kidden me? Election campaign? Obama and Gibbs better hope el jefe can finish the term.
Election campaign?
Joke of the day
Gibbs is leaving to work on the 2012 campaign along with Axelrod
do not underestimate the outcome of the 2012 election
Liberal FaAIL
When you take 2 of your so called "key advisors" and put them to work on getting you reelected when you have 2 years left to govern, it shows you what's important. Keeping power. Nevermind doing a good job of running the country.
Tim Geithner? Is he that creepy curator guy from
Ghostbusters II? Or....
Is he the dude from channel 666, selling
the Build-a-Burger soylent green pubic hair milk shakes?
Miley Cyrus should be Barack Obama's #1 economic advisor.
Geithner wishes he were Peter MacNicol aka "creepy curator guy". MacNicol would do a better job... and he's an actor.
The next POTUS candidate that promises "Hope and Change" will be the real deal. He won't be a liar. I just know it in my heart.
Oh f**k it. This optimism crap is for the birds. Hell, the rapture will be here before 2012 anyway.
if this news doesn't make gold rally nothing will
Bahahaha....time to bring in a hard core Nazi. Tough times ahead. I hope his replacement has a moustache!
Wow, this place is just oozing with envy....
I have always felt that David Axelrod (what a name!) looks strikingly like Adolf Hitler
Maybe. If Hitler was less honest and had a bigger ego.
off topic...but not really as it is another example of widspread lunacy...
"Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- United Auto Workers President Bob King said union members’ sacrifices allowed U.S. automakers to survive and that workers deserve to share in the industry’s new prosperity.
“All the sacrifices that our members made to turn these companies around were part of the process that’s really led to this amazing turnaround,” King said in a telephone interview yesterday. “We want our membership to share in a very meaningful way in the upside of these companies.”
where r we????
where r we????
Detroit. A great metaphor for America. Check out the foreclosures. It can only go up from here...right? Oh, we did cover the auto worker's pensions, did we not?
http://www.trulia.com/for_sale/Detroit,MI/#for_sale/Detroit,MI/price;a_s...
Is it true that Gibbs is a member of NAMBLA?
Rats off a sinking ship. Obama's a lame duck, so why stick around for the inevitable? He may as well double up on the golf and vacation time, and throw a few more righteous parties at the 'House while he's at it. Whoop whoop. Maybe he can appoint Oprah or P Diddy as some kind of "czar" before he goes.
Of course, now we'll get the Republicans again . . . and nothing will change except maybe shuffling a few more greenbacks from welfare spending to warfare spending. The same corrupt sociopaths will still be lying through their teeth, milking the taxpayers for all they're worth, and generally running this country further into the ground. Six of one, half dozen of the other. I just don't understand why so many people are wedded to the whole "Republican or Democrat" false dichotomy. Didn't somebody really smart say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result? Welcome to the Cuckoo's Nest.
Gibbs was the scapegoat this time. Rahm before him, who by the way is running for Mayor of Chicago. Mayor Daley in Chicago will not run in 2011, his son will likely be appointed to the Whitehouse and the only guy that said these two wars are a disaster in AFG and IRQ Stanley McChrystal is gone.
And Obama is up for reelection!? Barry makes Bush look an economic genius!
The fascist kleptocracy at its finest!
He will be Missed
By all fellow nerdy Alabama eggheads.
*tips a 40*
More room for Michelle's BFFs on Air Force One!
Gibbs just flat ran out of lies and could do no more in the position
I am going to miss Goebbels.