Obama's Advisor Valerie Jarrett

The Chicago Tribune has a long profile on top Democratic Chicago Machine operative Valerie Jarrett "known as the other side of Barack Obama's brain":

She can't remember whom she was texting at that moment. Likely it was Obama, the potential leader of the free world; or it could have been her former boss, Mayor Richard M. Daley, ruler of the city state of Chicago; or perhaps it was Penny, as in Pritzker, one of the richest women in the universe. Such is the company the 51-year-old Jarrett keeps.

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