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From the NY Times:

WASHINGTON — Long before the State Dinner party crashers and the tension with her White House colleagues and the strain in her relationship with the first lady, Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned her to his office last spring to scold her.

Ms. Rogers had appeared in another glossy magazine, posing in a White House garden in a borrowed $3,495 silk pleated dress and $110,000 diamond earrings. But if the image was jarring in a time of recession, Mr. Axelrod was as bothered by the words and her discussion of “the Obama brand” and her role in promoting it, according to people informed about the conversation.

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“The president is a person, not a product,” he was said to tell her. “We shouldn’t be referring to him as a brand.”

The confrontation that day between Ms. Rogers, the White House social secretary, and Mr. Axelrod, the senior adviser to President Obama, put at odds two longtime Chicago friends of the first family. And it foreshadowed a deeper, wrenching conflict that would eventually cost Ms. Rogers her job and tear at the fabric of the close-knit inner circle around Mr. Obama.

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    How come America is still racist? To all the sistas out there, stay strong like we have been for hundreds of years. Try to keep and shape, and let us all change the way we eat and pass the health down to our babies. We are the strongest women. We must strive for the best! Teach our babies the best. Don’t listen to the media. Just know that God loves all of us and we will prevail!

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    How in the world are you calling this racist?? This is a time of people with empty pockets, but she shows up in a mag wearing a dress and earrings that cost more than lots of people in this country make in a year. But her gettin in trouble for that was not because of her bonehead move, but because the people are racist. Yeah….right.

    She also let party crashers into the white house on her watch (secret service is more to blame in that one), but the reason she got in trouble was because she’s black not because she let uninvited people into the WH. Yeah….right.

    She also should not have gotten in trouble for talking about the pres as if he were Nike to Honda instead of a person, especially when conservatives and the real racists are looking for every reason to jump on him. But no she was not in trouble for yet another dumb move, its ALL because she’s black and people are racists.

    Not to mention her boss wife doesn’t like her, but I guess Mrs. Obama is secretly white and also a racist so that why she was fired. Sounds like you’re the racist to me. Seems this lady was just bad at her job, but she can’t be fired over it because then people are racist.

    Racist people think that certain people should not get or have jobs because of their skin, but racist also think people should keep jobs they are not good at just because of skin. You sound hella racist to me.

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    Um did anyone notice that the items were “borrowed” big difference. If there is conflict then there is conflict. There is always more to the story.

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    The confrontation that day between Ms. Rogers, the White House social secretary, and Mr. Axelrod, the senior adviser to President Obama, put at odds two longtime Chicago friends of the first family.

    Well we all know, that being a longtime friend of BHO don’t mean nothing if you have the wrong complexion. He will throw you under the bus in a minute.

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    What in the world does skin color have to do with this story. From what’s been stated it seems shes just bad at her job. Come on my black folks we dont always have to defend the black person just because a white person is involved.

    News flash some black people can be bad workers incompetent at their particular jobs. If they get fired for that incompetence then don’t be so quick to scream racism. Trust me there is PLENTY of racism to go around but this aint it.

    Also it does not matter if the stuff was borrowed. These are hard economic times, the last thing the common man/woman wants to see is elected officials and those they hire looking like they are living a life far superior to their own. They want to see that those in power get the fact that things are tough.

    Showing up in that mag wearing stuff that cost more than a lot of folks yearly wage is in bad taste and does nothing to reinforce the idea the the pres and those around him are in touch with the people. Use some common sense.

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