tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978152.post5388702869827499022..comments2023-10-18T05:38:08.545-07:00Comments on . . . With Both Hands: Desiree Rogers Evaporates and Falls - Vanity of Human Wishes Writ Largepathickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051997614374510451noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978152.post-18806069336824873132009-12-03T05:03:44.700-08:002009-12-03T05:03:44.700-08:00Phil,
Nice defense of a Pal ( Mr. Rogers).
Ms. ...Phil,<br /><br /><br />Nice defense of a Pal ( Mr. Rogers).<br /><br />Ms. Rogers will not be punished - have no worry on that score.<br /><br />The Obama White House has the Secret Service absorbing lead for Desiree.pathickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051997614374510451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978152.post-91997350022242185702009-12-03T01:58:44.149-08:002009-12-03T01:58:44.149-08:00I have been a friend of John Rogers - before he wa...I have been a friend of John Rogers - before he was married - for many years, and have known Desiree only slightly, though I'm aware of her reputation (escellent). I have never had economic relationships with either.<br /><br />Frankly, I was rather amazed that the former Mrs. Rogers would accept a position such as Social Secretary given the fact that she had been a CEO at several major Chicago companies.<br /><br />Obviously she did it because of her close personal friendship with Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to the President.<br /><br />While I have no doubt that her ex husband has been helpful and supportive of her -- what good husband or ex husband wouldn't or shouldn't be --- she does have many abilities of her own including a self effacing modesty that contrasts directly with her own beauty and glamour and more importantly, intelligence. She is an unusual combination of substance and symbolism.<br /><br />The unfortunate incident about the gatecrashers at the White House should not be allowed to detract from the fact that it was a very successful evening. <br /><br />I do not believe that despite the importance of this breach of security,it should turn into either a 'witchhunt or a whitewash' (my phrase). A few people in the Secret Service will need reprimands or suspensions. But this is is not Imperial Japan where Director Mark Sullivan would have committed hiri kiri (not Harry Carey).<br /><br />But the crashers need to be punished appropriately -not excessively. I have suggested that they be charged with simple trespass or something to that effect. They knew they had not been invited, and even though a personal friend who was a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense had been trying to assist them (this may be the scariest part of the story), she never told them she could get them 'tickets' for the dinner or the reception. (There are no tickets for State Dinners, there are invitations.) <br /><br />My suggestion is that if convicted of a misdemeanor (reserve felony indictments for terorists) the couple should receive a sentence of up to thirty days in jail.<br /><br />Specifically, they should be required to report to a DC jail, where they could share a private cell, arriving the day of every White House State Dinner and being released the day after. This would go on for the first fifteen State Dinners assuring this would not happen again.<br /><br />In the future, I'm sure that staff from Desiree Rogers' office will be at the checkpoints. But I can see it was hard for the Secret Service to reject appropriately dressed people, who looked the part, who had the temerity to show up (showing up is 90%) and probably insisting there 'was a mistake'.<br /><br />Thank goodness this wasn't a tragedy - but it could have been. Rest assured, it won't happen again; but it would be unfair to 'punish' Desiree Rogers or the Secret Service to the extent that they become victims of a supid, silly hoax by two poseurs. If their lives (the Salahis) have been 'ruined' it was self inflicted. <br /><br />In fairness, I should disclose that I am a facebrook friend of Tareq or possibly his imposter (I have my own silly quirks - I became a 'friend' within hours of the pictures being posted).<br /><br />I often agree with Mr. Hickey. Not in this instance.<br />Desiree Rogers is there, I believe, because Valerie Jarrett wanted her, to which the First Lady must have approved, not because of John Rogers.<br /><br />She should continue in her position and will be the most effective Social Secretary since Tish Baldridge (JFK's).Philip Steele Kronenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978152.post-69989177597054906282009-12-01T09:57:45.257-08:002009-12-01T09:57:45.257-08:00Go the way of Van Jones? You mean to work for the ...Go the way of Van Jones? You mean to work for the Whitehouse by advising from Boulder! CO2mmunists will always be in this administration.<br />http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117548BillyFishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12537595122229240569noreply@blogger.com