How come one of Obama’s top people …Rahm Emanuel, how come he can’t win re-election?

[tencats]

Chicago Mayoral Election 2015: Why Did Obama Endorse Rahm Emanuel And Not Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia?
By Howard Koplowitz on ibtimes.com March 01 2015

Jesus “Chuy” Garcia would appear to be the kind of candidate U.S. President Barack Obama would happily support for Chicago mayor. Garcia is a Mexican immigrant from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and is a Chicago community organizer, as Obama was. But Garcia is challenging incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff. Political observers say the president had no choice but to back Emanuel’s re-election bid.

“Anyone who knows anything about Obama’s earlier career in Chicago politics knows that were he not president, he would be supporting Chuy,” said Jeremy Mayer, an associate professor at the School of Policy, Government and International Affairs at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. “If you look at Obama’s record as a progressive, he was not part of the Rahm Emanuel wing of the Democratic Party. If you look at the kind of profile Obama had as a state legislator in the Chicago universe, he was far to the left of where Rahm Emanuel is. He was not someone who is tight with big money the way Rahm Emanuel and Wall Street got along.”

But Obama was bound by allegiance to back Emanuel for a second term: “A president who doesn’t do whatever he can, who doesn’t help whoever’s loyal to him is breaking a rule in American politics,” Mayer said.

http://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-mayoral-election-2015-why-did-obama-endorse-rahm-emanuel-not-jesus-chuy-1831270

[tazkcmo]

1. I bet he does win.

Not that I want him to or would ever vote for the smarmy little twerp but I bet he does win.

[MisterP]

2. same reason the party backed Lieberman over Lamont WHILE lecturing is against voting third-party

it's a sweatshop, not a workplace

[Vincardog]

3. PBO endorsed him because they both work for the same people.

[Zen Democrat]

4. Rahm is a Clinton creature. Lock stock and third way.

[Hekate]

5. Because Rahm is not Obama, and Obama is not Rahm. Seems RE makes his own mistakes, eh? nt

[cwydro]

6. I never liked this guy.

I never will.