"This Week" with George Stephanopoulos headlined with Chicagoland quen, Daley machine operative, Obama adviser and Grove Parc slum landlady Valerie Jarrett. Stephanopoulos was smooth and deft in sliding in some challenges to point person Jarrett who was clearly miffed when Stephanopoulos challenged her contention that the Obama health care plan was popular - and Jarrett retreated into chatter that there was no definitive plan as of yet. He also had the stones to ask her about why Obama brought cameras along to his visit to Dover AFB - raising some eyebrows that he was using this photo-op to show his concern as he has been criticized for not putting forth his policy on Afghanistan as casualties have spiked since he took office while Jarrett made the obligatory statements about the troops' sacrifice and how Obama was moved by the experience. As far as progress on the Obama agenda in such areas as health care, Jarrett said it was basically all the Republicans fault. Michlle Malkin weighs in on this one.
The roundtable included columnist George Will who noted at the one year anniversary of Obama's election that there had been change in foreign policy - that the world likes us better, but it has gotten the US nothing in return. The Reverend Al Sharpton. GOP operative Ed Gillespie who said the health care reform efforts could cost them in 2010 and former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers weighed in as well.
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