President Obama has chosen former journalist Jay Carney to replace press secretary Robert Gibbs, a longtime loyalist, when he leaves the post in mid-February — one of a number of staff changes announced today by White House chief of staff Bill Daley.
Daley also named two new deputy chiefs of staff: Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the Office of Health Reform, and Alyssa Mastromonaco, White House director of scheduling and advance. (For a full list of staff changes, scroll to the bottom of this post.)
“I believe these decisions will bring greater clarity to our structure and roles and will enhance coordination and collaboration among us,” Daley wrote in an email announcing the moves.
Carney, now the communications director for Vice President Biden, is the marquee move as he will assume perhaps the most high profile staff job in the White House.
He came to the Administration in 2008 after a long career in journalism that included serving as Washington bureau chief of Time magazine. Carney is married to ABC News’ correspondent Claire Shipman.
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It NEEDS a haircut!!
Obama thinks he looks cute in a sun dress when he puts a wig on him, heels, paints nipples on his shoulder blades and makes him walk backwards !………lol.
Hey old timer; He has a new haircut. This guy is in for a real challenge the next two years. He was, before working for the Vice President was a pretty fair Journalist. I will not judge him before his time and give him a chance. Because I really have not paid attention to what he has done since going to work for "Say it ain't so Joe". I am just glad to see Gibby Dibby Do is getting away from our White House. He is a perfect example of the aristocracy of Washington. Bye Gibby don't let the door hit you on the way out.
The Middle East is going into melt down as I type this. I sure hope Barry's is paying attention or will he vote present again. This is why I wish he was not President right now. He is letting the world crumble around us and wasting time running for 2012. His incompetents is going to lead to an even more dangerous world than ever. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Ellen.
Note James; I did not include you. But you should also be concerned even more about the leadership of Barry. I know you are not a huge fan of some of Barry's policies but in a Bi-Partisan moment between us, we should hope he doesn't mess this up or the middle east problem will lead to big problems as any history professor or scholar knows this to be true.
"we should hope he doesn't mess this up"
Indeed. Though I have to admit that I'm not certain of the best options here, are you?
Hay Hay ACLU Jerk-Off Sad Sack Teacher Wantabe James McPhersonnn The Village Idiot And His Sweet Daughter Ellena Just Keep Drinking That Obamacare Kool-Aid Teach And Leave The Rest To The Tea Party Patriotic Americans!!! God Bless America.
The best option there in my opinion is not popular in Washington. Get out of the whole Middle East and let the cards fall as them may. We are not popular there and when we intervene we are even less popular. It has never been a win win situation for us. I am a little confused with the differing comments he and his administration are putting out. I also don't get the feeling he understands that the middle east or is receiving poor advice. This could get real ugly real fast, I have traveled and visited the Middle East a lot, they are a different lot for sure. The separation of rich and poor is larger than anytime in our countries history. Also when conversing with them it is a big barter for everything and they really do not believe anyone from America is smart as them. That I kind of understand if you waste any of your time watching shows like Jersey Shore and like kind. But still all the middle east rich use to love to come to this country and buy things, now they go to Asia and other places. When visiting the people on the street would practically give you anything for a pair of Levi jeans and now they buy the fake ones from Asia and blame the poor quality on, guess who? US. The biggest different is they expect us to respect their culture but they will not return the favor. I have not been over there for many years now and will never return, would love to but since the mid 1990's we are just not respected anymore. The money spend and the fuel we burn is all a big waste. Consider whom is selling us that fuel and whom benefits the most from the conflicts and that will be the resolution to the middle east. Hint 19 of them came from this country.
"Get out of the whole Middle East and let the cards fall as them may"
And you think we have a "Muslim problem" now? You can kiss Israel (the biggest recipient of U.S. foreign aid) goodbye under your plan, and the Jewish lobby here would guarantee that the party of any president who did so would never win another U.S. election.
I'd also expect Egypt and Saudi Arabia–our two strongest allies in the region–to shift their alliances to those who would do us harm.
I do agree that we have too large a presence in the region and that our actions there often have aggravated tensions–particularly, of course, through the foolish Bush/Cheney Iraq War.
Middle East is a no win situation, Egypt is gone, Saudi Arabia is only a allied to us keeping other dictatorships out of their area. Buying their oil and when a King or Prince needs health care they come here.Watch Saudi Arabia next. They will be a bigger card to fall and this freedom thing that is going to spread like the flu in school after the holidays. We will never agree on the Iraq war, and that is a useless discussion between us. I will always not just include Bush and Cheney, but the UN, Clinton, Bush 1, and several of countries that convince Saddam that we would never do anything, but keep buying their useless weapon systems. Which they were just seeing how well they stood up to American weapon systems. Also most of the Oil for food thing after Desert Storm did not go to food. Saddam was still buying weapon systems and building palaces to hide stuff in with monies from oil sales going out a pipe line to another country. As for Israel, they can hold their own in that neighborhood and we can not afford to buy friends anymore. Egypt and Israel have received billions of dollar from us for 30 plus years not to fight. When you buy a friend is it really your friend. We have to take care of our own country first now and when lobbies become more powerful than the elected official. We are not the country we were intended to be. If we stop wasting money to keep the middle east peaceful, they will not have any money to fight with and no other country is going to be able to support the hatred in that area with money cause they don't have any either. You stated; (the biggest recipient of U.S. foreign aid) No James that was surpassed by the simulates package of 687 Billion to Friends of Barry that produced or SAVED jobs. Now explain to me how you go from 7 percent unemployment when he took office and go up to 9.8 percent but you spent almost one trillion dollars to do so. The total for Israel was 3 billion a year times 30 years = 90 billion. Ding ding we have a new winner. James you have been educated in a realities of the real world by a bunch of 1960 hippies and now you are a educator brainwashing a whole new lot of lemmings. You ask what the answer was, I just suggested something that has been tried because spending our money that is running out soon will lead us to no friends. That is the problem when you buy a friend, when the money is gone you ain't got no friends. Just keep taxing the rich until we are all poor, ya that will work.
The stimulus package, whatever its merits or problems, wasn't foreign aid. So I repeat: Israel is the biggest recipient of U.S. foreign aid.
I would imagine Obamas' new press secretary will be about the same as Gibbs. Both Liars, both Stupid. Just what the Illegal in the Presidents Office wants.
What a single minded site this is. This has been up since Thursday and only 10 comments, most mine. Let me try something: here I go: Birth Certificate. There I did it, now maybe Ellen can comment on this one also.
I don't think Ellen shows back up till Thurs/Fri. and I think she only works the main birther article
of the week (weekend assignment?). About the same time span that James seems to be off
for the weekend?
But Gary, in fact I posted several times during the weekend–I'm disappointed that you didn't notice.
But it is true that I haven't been spending as much time here in general–because the visitors, the opinions, and the rote arguments so seldom change, this site has become much less interesting in comparison to other things I'm doing.
I knew that she was only a birth-er involved. I have tried to drag her into some other issues many times. That is why I joke about it all the time. The other part I did not know. Interesting. I have a daughter of at collage right now and knowing that some of the educators are like him did worry me a bit, my child is fine but the poor children that believe what ever a educator tells them is frighting. Most of her teachers are Associate Professors and the real professor must be off writing more text books for me to buy, of revising them so that we can't buy used ones. We have made it to the final semester with her independence still in tact. She told me a story of the week Barry was elected, that was all she spent time on for a solid week in a language class. Thanks for the other info, I just love winding them (two/or not) up.