According to this article it looks like Ms. Rogers was forced out

[bigdarryl]

After reading this I fell sorry for her she was left out in the cold http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/politics/12rogers.html?pagewanted=1

[ProSense]

1. You "fell" sorry?

Get up, she'll live.

[Spazito]

2. Misleading header, imo, given the content of the article...

After reading the article, it seems Ms. Rogers had made more than one faux pas and well before the State Dinner party crashers incident. She was told, more than once, to tone it down yet she did not and was NOT where she should have been at the time of the State Dinner incident but was, instead, doing the 'social' thing instead of the 'secretarial' job she was hired to do.

I always find it interesting when I see this:

“It’s been very difficult for her,” said Amy Zantzinger, who was President George W. Bush’s last social secretary and has become a friend of Ms. Rogers’s.

How many of the anonymous sources to this story are from the 'right' side of the political spectrum one wonders.

[DURHAM D]

4. Yep - the part they left out of the story is that she was "hosting" her own

table of VIPs at the dinner.

In other words, she was not "doing" her job - she was "attending" the event.

[Ninga]

5. My daughter was on the receiving end of Ms. Rogers verbal vitrol a few weeks ago. Ms. Rogers

interjected herself into a situation that was not hers to manage and after her verbal dressing down, turned and marched away as though she were a queen bee.

My daughter's first hand personal experience leads me to believe that it was far more than Ms. Rogers not paying attention at the State Dinner that got her the boot.

[Spazito]

6. I have read that her 'people skills' were too often lacking...

when it came to dealing with 'underlings' and your daughter's experience seems to reinforce that view.

[Jennicut]

9. Hmm, a bit unprofessional, no? I am surprised to read this but if this is the case

then it seems she did not know how to deal with people well.

[elehhhhna]

10. everybody in Chicago knows DR is a climber

with a kiss up/kick down M.O.

Always has been.

[closeupready]

3. She's not entirely to blame for all of this, but

ultimately, I think it's good she left. She did do some really smart things to make it appear as though Obama was dynamic and youthful, but after that initial splash, she needed to tone it down, and failed to do that. The Salahi scandal alone wasn't too big a deal, but taken together with everything else, was simply the last in a lot of worrisome straws that broke the camel's back.

[Ikonoklast]

7. She was performing poorly at the job she was hired to do.

Not the one she 'thought' she was hired for, and let go.

Fairly cut and dried.

[asjr]

8. After I read it I thought her main problem for

others was that she is too black, beautiful, stylish, smart, photogenic, and nice for the D.C. establishment. There is certainly no good will toward women in D.C. I am sure she had her not nice capabilities, but I think blaming the party-crashers on her was not one of them. I fear there are many sour grapes being eaten in the W.H.