Meet The New Whitehouse Social Secretary

Posted on November 24th, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Barack Obama, Bolitics, News

Posted by Bossip Staff

Obama continues to make history:

Prominent Chicago businesswoman Desiree Rogers will be named the White House social secretary, according to a series of news reports. The 49-year-old Harvard MBA will be the first African-American to hold the post.

Rogers, 49, is a friend of Michelle and President-elect Barack Obama’s, and a leader in Chicago corporate and civic circles; her appointment signals that the first couple consider the job crucial to how they introduce themselves to the country and the globe. She was a major fundraiser for Obama.

According to news reports, Barack Obama will also introduce his economic team later today. He’s doing us proud. Obama done swooped down and grabbed the reigns like a true maverick. Lawd knows we need the change – in every way.

And he still makes time for us regular folk. Dig Obama during a recent visit to Manny’s Coffee Shop & Deli in Chicago.

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  • Hannibal

  • Marquis de Sade

    That’s nice.

  • Hannibal

    49 YEARS OLD??? SHE STILL CAN GET IT…

  • Nya

    Intelligent, well-educated black women, please represent!

  • getyourhandouttamypocket

    I can’t WAIT until this man takes over the white house. I’m too excited!

  • RiotGirL11

    Yes We Can…Yes We did…Yes He Will.

  • roe ski love

    Now thats what I call a banger. Fine, intellegent, socially responsible, well connected, this is another example for young black females to aspire too. Wake up or get left behind people, its a new day, stop blaming the white man for our problems and conditions. YES WE CAN!

  • HP

    She is a pretty lady. Go Girl.

  • Anon E Mouse

    Acutally it’s “rein,” not “reign” or”rain.” Rein as a noun refers to a leather strap fastened on to a horse’s bridle and used to control the horse. As a verb, to rein means to check or guide a horse using the reins.

  • Allison Mae

    Gosh! Obama is doing his thing!!!!

  • Candid Canuck

    Now this is the Obama I like to see! … a nice looking woman too…. *applauding*

  • Jasmes

    Did everybody see the football player, Myron Rolle at Florida State University this weekend. He was just nominated as a Rhodes scholar this year. He is going to be a Neurosurgeon! Amazing a brillant athlete. Don’t let anybody tell you an athlete can’t be smart as well as athletic .This guy is a wonderful role model. look him up if you want to know more about this amazing young, Black man. Congrats Myron.

  • mandah… 21 like Black Jack… i had to tell em!

    well hot daxn! she dont look a second over 23! hey black dont crack!

    and Oshie u crazy lol!

  • Opie Taylor

    Oh swell, while addressing the press,she will probably preface every response with “HOLLA!” I pray for our country.

  • Black Beauty

    Oh my goodness! She looks like a cleaned up Mel B. She looks better than most 30 year olds that I know.

  • Simone

    Actually, it’s reins!

  • http://annoymous@yahoo.com anonymous says

    Daywalker i agree she can still get ole girl looks good at 49… black dont crack man! whats up dawg? how was the week-end man.. i got a email from mild he said he is in Ga doing the Thanksgiving family thing and said say hey to NIK U!

  • snoop bloggy blog

    @ anon

    big ups on myron rolle rhode scholar. desiree rogers now that’s a dime brains & beauty

  • http://annoymous@yahoo.com anonymous says

    @ snoop bloggy blog.. hey dawg whats up man / your screen name is off the chain man i laughed till i cried that is a catchy name .. way to go dawg and yeah she is a looker and im sure she will make a good leader Obama knows what hes doing man hes a smart dude. I got family in Chi and they said when Obabma was young he was so smart they use to say when you get grown you may become President!!!!!!!1

  • HF

    “Grabbed the ‘RAINS’ like a true maverick?”

    “LAWD knows we need the change?”

    I guess that’s y Obama chose Ms Rogers 4 Social Secretary… she likely doesn’t sound like a slave.

  • snoop bloggy blog

    @ anonymous says

    what’s up, thanks for the screen name compliment

  • Kia

    “These truths we hold to be self evident…”

    Rolle, The Obamas, Colin Powel, Mrs. Rogers and countless others are examples of what many of us always know OF US. This begins an era of being accurately represented to the world. CHANGE has come. Progess has begun and is still being made.

  • Pynk (KICK ROCKS WITH THE KICKS YOU ROCK)

    @I got it like that…

    Well said!

    She is a beautiful woman. Barack makes me so proud everyday. I didn’t think I could get any prouder!! I’m so happy to be an American now!!!

  • Just Sit and Be Pretty

    Great!! She’s no slouch and neither is her husband, John Rogers,Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Ariel Investments. Should be a fun gig…

  • Just Sit and Be Pretty

    oops, scratch that, it’s “ex-husband” according to the Huffington Post.

  • http://annoymous@yahoo.com anonymous says

    2snoop bloggy blog… yeah dude i got slack from a couple females on here about why i didnt post my picture and name.. it aint that serious to me they do them and i do me first of all my job surfs internets looking for pictures i know this for a fact because 3 people got fired on the net and my job pays me too good to be blogging on here trying to pick up dates that aint my bag man… you feel me?? but i showed my girl at home your screen name and she said that was very funny and cool man!

  • Ling

    Desiree Rogers is no joke. I’m a native Chicagoan and watched her career with interest during the 90′s when she was married to John Rogers. She is certainly a go-getter and very dynamic. A great pick. Kudos to Barack Obama for this selection!

  • jenna

    you people will be happy with anyone, just as long as they are black.. lol pathetic!

  • jenna

    you people will be happy with anyone, just as long as they are black..

    LOL PATHETIC!

  • This I Know

    I am loving all this black positivity coming to the White House. America is going to know now whats up with good black people taking care of business.

  • snoop bloggy blog

    @ anonymous says

    i feel u homie, get ya paper first this ain’t the place to date. i wasn’t going to put up my pic but i said wth…anyway you seem like a cool cat though

  • Just Sit and Be Pretty

    jeanna STFU, did you check her resume?!?! LMAO, hi hater!!

  • Kia

    AND, Bye Hater!!! No seriously Jenna (Bush I presume), make tracks drunk azz. The good, clean Obama girls are on their way in and will need time to send in a crew to get your drunk, stupid stank off the place.

    Hey thanks to you and your daddy for making this too easy. Bye, bye again Hater.

    LEAVE!!!

  • Sydney

    Good for her — first Eric Holder is on the verge of making history as the first black Attorney General, and now Ms. Rogers is making history.

    FYI, Obama held a big news conference this afternoon on his new economic team. From CNN:

    In selecting his economic team, Obama said he sought leaders who share his fundamental belief that “we cannot have a thriving Wall Street without a thriving Main Street.”Video Watch Obama call the economic crisis one of ‘historic proportions »

    Obama selected New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as treasury secretary and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as chief of the National Economic Council.

    Geithner helped manage Wall Street’s financial meltdown earlier this year, overseeing the acquisition of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan Chase, the bailout of AIG and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. He was appointed as the New York Federal Reserve president in November 2003.

    Summers served as treasury secretary in the Clinton administration. He was the chief economist of the World Bank from 1991 through 1993. Prior to his career in government, Summers taught economics at Harvard.

    University of California-Berkeley economics professor Christina Romer has been chosen to be the chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

  • A+

    She’s a BIG deal on the social scenes in Chicago, and since she’s so tight with the Obamas, this really doesn’t come as a surprise! ;)

  • I dont get it!

    Thank you for finally giving us some positive, beautiful, intelligent sistas to rave about. So glad to see us (educated black women) finally getting the shine we deserve. And maybe just maybe we can shake that ugly ghetto welfare queen babymama, assshaking, loose moral, thug loving sterotype, they try to make it seem we all are.

  • DaddyO

    Hi Jenna, this is Becky, her Ex-Husband like started like Ariel Investments when he was like 24 and he’s also like a Princeton Grad, and he’s also like Black too, so you need to like stop hating b/c they like obviously have more money that like you and almost everyone else (unless your like Jenna Bush and you Dad like started a war so his frat buddies from Texas could like get rich by inflating the oil prices and like all these other companies him and all his friends worked for also got rich too).

  • Suitelady2008

    Obama 2012!

  • Suitelady2008

    Obama 2008 & 2012!

  • Its The Foosa

    he picked Wanda Sykes?

  • TERI button

    COME TOGETHER PEOPLE. DON’T BE COLOR BLIND. THIS IS A FRESH NEW CHANGE FOR ALL OF US. GIVE PEACE A CHANCE. THIS NEW LEADERSHIP IS INSPIRED AND UP FOR THE TASK AHEAD. AMEN

  • WASHINGTON PARK

    CHI-TOWN STANDUP!

    Obama is selecting CAPABLE Black Americans to work with him in the White House. I’m sure there are more to come. He’s giving blacks an OPPORTUNITY to show the world that we have the capacity to led and manage efficently. SOUTHSIDE!!!

  • Davina

    Great decision

  • NOLYINGHERE

    OBAMA IS A PLAYER!!! __ YOU CAN TELL BY THE PEOPLE HE PICK FOR HIS TEAM. THE MAN GOT STYLE!!!

  • deafjam04

    Desiree Rogers makes me proud! I can show my daughter that there is no limit(as Sherry from the View put it).

  • NOLYINGHERE

    OBAMA IS A PLAYER!!– YOU CAN TELL BY THE PEOPLE HE PICK FOR HIS TEAM> THE MAN GOT GQ STYLE

  • BG

    Damn she looks good for her age, well she looks good period… YES WE DID!

  • SpearChucker

    Wanda Sykes?

  • roe ski love

    She looks like the actress Teri Vaugn and Teri Vaugn got it going on!

  • HF

    Dag, I thought that was Mel B 4 a sec…

    Congrats 2 Social Secretary Select Rogers!!

  • Marty Mar

    49 is the new 30…she can get it whenever

  • Urban Legend

    She’s 49? she’s gorgeous. Black is beautiful.

  • Urban Legend

    She’s 49? she’s gorgeous. Black is beautiful. No Homo.

  • crazychris

    my man george clinton said it best paint the white house black.

  • Necy

    Obama is representing!!! I’m black that He’s also hiring people who look like us… I didn’t expect less from him!!! and that’s one of the reasons why I voted for this intelligent man.

  • Bohwe

    You can best believe that Obama and the black appointees have a point to prove to the U.S. and the world.Remember, these blacks that are in this new Administration are highly educated, experienced people, and they have a point to prove. Trust, they will not go into the wH, acting ignorant or not be on point when it comes to the issues. I, really believe the Obama Adm will be one to be reckon with.I love it. Change is coming to the white house.

    And please stop implying Obama will have a scandalous issue in office, Obama is in love with Michelle, attracted to her, respects her. And besides, he’s not a regular every day negro, this man is a calculating, shrewd thinker, there is no way he’s going to risk his career, standing, morals for easy pickings or an easy lay. And besides, Michelle has that man so whipped.

  • Bohwe

    Wow black women in top posistions, go head Obama. Now, Obama is a strong black man.

  • BAHAMAS/CHICAGO/CAYMAN GIRL

    She does not look 49 go one sista!!! When he won everybody won!! I love that he is finding talent among his people and giving them a shot!!! KUDOS!!!!

  • Lovely One

    Intelligent black women in power…LOVES IT! Homegirl looking good for 49…looking good period :-)

  • memchee

    can’t wait till Bush is out of office and the markets fall back in order.

    We’ll probably see more intelligent women and African Americans in Washington than at any other time in our history.

  • the truth

    wtf, where’s my post?

    i’ll just repeat it again, why this hottie got appointed is nice, melody barnes appointment to domestic policy is influence wise, more significant. there should have been either a post including both or 2 posts for both

  • Ghost

    Are you sure that isn’t Terri J Vaughn from The Steve Harvey SHow?

  • Pynk (KICK ROCKS WITH THE KICKS YOU ROCK)

    Wanda Sykes? LMAO

  • Tina

    SpearChucker

    She does look a lil Wanda right here.

    Ghost

    She also look a lil Loveeta

    Ms Rogers look good at 49.

  • Encyclopedia Brown

    49? Wow. She’s cute

  • TiaMia

    Yeah Desiree “Artist for Obama”–(fundraiser)

  • Knottmyhair

    Pres Elect Obama is going to show them how a real president is suppossed to do it.

  • WordtotheWise

    I thought was just going to post that. Yes she does look like Terri J. Vaughn.

    Obama’s doing it for real. I expected nothing less from him.

  • WordtotheWise

    Yes she does look like Terri J. Vaughn.

    Obama’s doing it for real. I expected nothing less from him.

  • GODDESS1

    This is what I am talking about…..see ladies.

    You too can get educated… and someday be in the Whitehouse…..

    This lady looks good for 49yrs….

    48POWERS!!!

  • GODDESS1

    Beautifulll…..

    See for the ladies that be tricking and skrippers ….

    education is the key….. to get to the top!! the WHITEHOUSE WILL NEVER BE SAME….now hire white folks to clean and cook….

    48POWERS!!!

  • http://TUHHC.com TUHHC

    Folks, this is a BAD WOMAN! She puts it down. I have watched her for years here in CHicago and she is on her A + game.

  • ☆ Lola A♏ ★

    Obama continues to make history!

    Congrats and good luck to Ms. Rogers!

  • dubya

    I really like her, I think this was an excellent pick.

  • copelli21

    Ok, she looks fabulous for being 49, dang!

    Thank you Barack Obama for bringing the sistas to the forefront and letting us take care of business for this country!

    It is about damn time! We have been “supporting” every damn body for too long, it’s time to take up the reins and start running this country and get things on track.

    Finally, a President who realizes the importance of surrounding yourself with SMART, QUALIFIED, people who have the skills to do their jobs!

    Can we just kick Bush out NOW and get Obama in place!

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