Desirée Rogers ran into sharp elbows at White House

Desirée Rogers ran into sharp elbows at White House

From "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/politics/12rogers.html?hp 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. "The president is a person, not a product," he was said to tell her. "We shouldn't be referring to him as a brand." Click "here":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/politics/12rogers.html?hp to read the rest of the story.