Posted on 11/10/2008 4:02:45 PM PST by LostInBayport
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini
• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
• He has read every Harry Potter book
• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Barack Obama’s now official White House chief of staff, House Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), was profiled by the New York Times today. Rahm has a lengthy Democrat history, but the NYT left something out of the piece… Rahm’s stint on the board of fraud-riddled mortgage giant Freddie Mac. When Emanuel left the Clinton White House, he was given the plum seat on Freddie’s board, just as it was expanding it’s subprime lending. According to Freddie Mac insiders, Emanuel opposed EVERY reform of the quasi-governmental agency proposed by the Bush administration.
In 1998 it was the Clinton administration who ruled that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could satisfy their affordable housing obligations (mandated for banks by the Clinton administration) by purchasing subprime mortgages. This ultimately made it possible for Fannie and Freddie to add a trillion dollars in junk loans to their balance sheets. As we all know, this led to their own collapse, and to the development of a market in these mortgages that is the source of the financial meltdown affecting our entire economy. Having Rahm as a director, fresh out of the White House, helped grease the skids we’re sliding on now.
Emmanuel was part of a small crew that created the CRA-the Community Reinvestment Act, (some call it the Credit Redevelopment Act), and allowed applicants to secure mortgages without income verification. As the idea grew the “crew” formed the Freddie and Fannie programs as a (sort of) “job” for out of work democrats. After 6 years, the CRA grew, and Emanuel was able withdraw almost 200 million dollars.
Emanuel worked for investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, from 1999-2002, at the same time he was a Freddie director. He reportedly earned $18 million during his stay, largely by brokering large mergers and acquisitions deals. His client base was almost exclusively the Democrat party’s biggest financial supporters.
So, thank your new Chief Of Staff-elect for doing his part in facilitating the biggest global financial crisis of, perhaps, ever. Rahm won’t be making the kind of coin he did in the private sector, and with Obama’s income tax-hikes looming…that’s a good thing for Rahm. Fortunately for him he doesn’t have to pay property taxes either! He lists his home as a non-profit charity
11/9/2008 11:58:38 AM
Now THAT is cool.
Or if Sarah had said this in response when Katie asked her what she read.
Brings to mind what the British diplomat Cecil Spring-Rice said about his friend, Theodore Roosevelt: "You must remember that the president is about six years old."
I KNEW it!
That Muhammad Ali thing is kind of cool, but I’m not surprised since he is a brethren of Muhammad Ali. Allah Akbar and all.
Hey, speaking of Muhammad Ali and Islam...
how did his mother, a supposed atheist, marry a Muslim of all religions? Two muslims for that matter? Wouldn’t that be the WORST selection for an atheist?
If they are talking dead weight on a bar, I think that's complete BS.
What? No oxtail, turnip greens & cornbread?
Oh sorry, wrong neighborhood.
“His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars.”
Every time he talks something resembling it flies out.
where is the pandering leftist media barf alert?
A Marxist senior economist. Thanks for letting everyone know...after the election.
• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
I'm a lefty, too.
• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
I practically live off of protein shakes and bars. Personal favs: GNC 100% Whey Protein (for shakes) and Pure Protein (for bars).
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
Not all that impressive, but better than 20lbs.
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
Agreed. Pull those damn pants up.
* He keeps an image of Kali on his desk, to remind him of how many arms he needs to pick the pockets of the rich.
* His nickname in college was “Stinky” because of his fear of showers.
* He has Larry Sinclair’s cell phone number handy “Just in case”.
* In Indonesia he had a pet cobra, which he named Karl, in honor of his favorite author.
* After playing basketball he likes to relax with a line or two of his ‘good stuff’.
Ahhh, ok.
But does he have a genuine Hawaiian birth certificate? Will he show it before January 21? Will any of the lapdogs in the media ask?
He shall “rule” us soon. ;)
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