Emanuel as Obama’s Chief of Staff is “Change you can f***ing believe in”.

[tekisui]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article5113223.ece

For those in the John McCain camp who spent the last week of the campaign declaring that Barack Obama hung around with antisemites, the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff is a bit of a stunner. To anyone living in the real world, it comes as a revealing first move.

If you were expecting Kumbaya from Obama, do try to remember where he learnt politics. It’s Chicago, where Emanuel also practised the dark arts of twisting arms, yelling in people’s faces and counting votes. As one wag put it, Emanuel as Obama’s chief of staff is “Change you can f****** believe in”.

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Rahm Emanuel himself explodes amusingly at regular intervals and uses language that might have made Richard Nixon blush. But as his friend Todd Purdum, the Vanity Fair journalist, has noted, he also lives by the Franklin D Roosevelt truism: “Keep all the balls in the air without losing your own.”

He gets things done. As the fourth highest ranking member of the Democratic leadership in the House, he has a very good idea of where the votes are, who the problem congressmen will be and how to corral, bully and pinion the wayward to get his way. As a junior member of Bill Clinton’s 1992 election team, he focused relentlessly on fundraising – and it paid off.

He remembers enemies well.

more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article5113223.ece

[RollWithIt]

1. Rahm responds to the early criticism of his selection:

"Fuck you, we're gonna force change down their Republican throats."

He went on to add, "Want to try to stop us? Wait until I kill off 15 more Republican Rural who fucking cares districts. Then we'll have a 100 seat majority."

In closing he said, "Go fuck yourself."

[tekisui]

2. !

:rofl:

[Mariana]

8. That's change you BETTER fucking believe in!

Or else!

[vanderBeth]

9. LOL

You better fucking believe it.

[NotThisTime]

13. ROFLMAO, now that's change I'd like to hear ROFLMAO!!!!

:yourock: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[TheDonkey]

15. :)

[mucifer]

3. I just wish he wasn't on the board of Fanny Mae in 2000

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6201900&page=1


Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
New Obama Chief of Staff, Others on Board, Missed "Red Flags" of Alleged Fraud Scheme
By BRIAN ROSS and RHONDA SCHWARTZ
November 7, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot "red flags," according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.

there is much more at the link.

OY VEY!

[leftinportland]

12. muci!

Hi, it's your friend veri!

[Egnever]

14. Why? the election is over.

We won

Worry bout that shit again in three years.

[Tatiana]

4. Rahm will deliver on the President's agenda. The wingnuts are scared as well they should be.

Back in 2006:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHhZa-3hExo

[Lumpsum]

5. We're also talking about a guy who mailed a dead fish to one of his political enemies.

He's vicious.

I'm just glad he's on our side.

[NYC Liberal]

6. Rahm is a tough politician. He was picked because talking about change isn't enough

You need someone who's been there for a while, knows the game and the people in it and will carry out the agenda.

[cliffordu]

7. I'm thrilled about having an absolute son of a bitch running the day to day

bid'ness -

Republican Carpetbaggers and con men won't dare set foot in the joint because they'll KNOW they have to go through Emanuel and they HAVE to have their ducks lined up....not something I'd like to have to do.

"You'll not be wasting the President's fucking time with this shit..."

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Obama's choice draws anti-Arab taunt

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:39:05 GMT
Obama's choice of White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel

In strikingly racist remarks, the father of Rahm Emanuel has said Israel will benefit from Obama's choice of White House chief of staff.

"Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House," Benjamin Emanuel, father of Rahm Emanuel, told the Israeli Ma'ariv daily.

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According to the Israeli Ha'aretz paper, Benjamin Emanuel 'is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician who was a member of the Irgun (Etzel or IZL), a militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948.'

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The appointment of Emanuel has not been welcomed in the Muslim world, where many feel that rather than reflecting Obama's campaign cry of 'Change', the move demonstrates the president-elect will continue to play the same old Washington foreign policy tune.

"There could not be a more provocative appointment than Rahm Emanuel, if he wanted to send a signal that he is going to stick by a quite hard-line pro-Israel policy," Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifadah said on Democracy Now.


http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=74697§ionid=351020206

[blondeatlast]

11. Good thing Obama's a Muslim, then.

:eyes: