Buh bye Desiree Rogers

Usually Obama's old Chicago friends are the safest people in his administration. But even though she's a Windy City crony, the clock has finally run out on Obama's social secretary Desiree Rogers. The Washington Post has reported that Rogers will resign some time next month. We at ObamaWatchNews are heartbroken over this devastating loss for the country. In memoriam, here are some of Rogers' greatest hits.

Embarrassing Obama in front of all of Washington, DC. Rogers planned Obama's first state dinner, which was famously infiltrated and crashed by the Salahis. She later admitted she didn't even have staff standing around checking credentials.

Embarrasing Obama in front of all of Great Britain. Rogers was the brain child behind Obama's gift of several DVD movies to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, even though the DVDs wouldn't even play with European appliances. Meanwhile Brown's gifts were somewhat less juvenile, including a pen holder carved from the wood of a famous anti-slave ship and a seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

Embarrassing Obama in front of all of Norway. Rogers planned Obama's trip to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway and made a big point of snubbing the Norwegians wherever possible. Not included on Obama's schedule was a lunch with Norwegian King Harald V and a visit to the Nobel Peace Center, both hugely significant traditions for all Nobel Prize winners. Norwegians were outraged and called Obama, among other things, "arrogant." They noticed.

Embarrassing Obama in front of all of Saudi Arabia. It was Rogers who advised Obama to bow to the king of Saudi Arabia. Of course, heads of state are never supposed to bow under diplomatic protocol. The incident was so embarrassing, the White House began claiming that Obama hadn't bowed at all, but had just dropped something on the ground. Many people believed this until...

Embarrassing Obama in front of all of Japan. Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan too. (He sure does drop a lot of things. Butterfingers!) This was a very significant state visit and Rogers advised Obama to act like he was in a Kung Fu movie.