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Rahm Emanuel "Begged" Obama Not To Push Healthcare
SeeBS News ^ | 8/6/2011 | SeeBS

Posted on 08/06/2011 12:27:06 PM PDT by NorthStarStateConservative

In his new book on President Obama's first year in office, "The Promise," Jonathan Alter includes a quote from the president's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, illustrating just how opposed Emanuel was to the president's push for comprehensive health care reform.

"I begged him not to do this," Emanuel told Alter, as detailed by the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, writing off advanced excerpts put out ahead of the book's release Tuesday. (Hotsheet just got its copy of the book and is planning to dig into it this weekend.)

The president overruled Emanuel, telling him, according to the book, that he "wasn't sent here to do school uniforms."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: jonathanalter; obamacare; pages; rahm; rahmemanuel; thepromise
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To: USNBandit

Best post in this thread!


21 posted on 08/06/2011 12:54:34 PM PDT by repub4ever1 (Capitalism is not perfect, but it beats all other systems hands down.)
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To: NorthStarStateConservative

“wasn’t sent here to do school uniforms.”

Thats right. Barry’s puppet masters handed him his marching orders to destroy the US economy and the middle class. So far so good.


22 posted on 08/06/2011 12:55:36 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Barry isn’t smart enough to create all these monsters. He’s working for the people in the background that we don’t see.


23 posted on 08/06/2011 1:03:55 PM PDT by donhunt (I am sick and tired of those bastards insulting and lying to me.)
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To: NorthStarStateConservative

He POS Obama, are you feeling lucky today?


24 posted on 08/06/2011 1:03:57 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: A Cyrenian

Set the peas next to the dead fish.

No matter what you say, if the Zero had followed Rahm’s advice we would be in entirely different circumstances today.


25 posted on 08/06/2011 1:06:19 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: donhunt

Exactly.
This health are plan was already mostly drafted up and ready to go before Obama was even elected. It was a done deal as soon as they held the Congress and the presidency, whether that was Obama, or Hillary or anyone else.

That’s why I reject the term ObamaCare.
It is more like PelosiCare than any one else.


26 posted on 08/06/2011 1:09:56 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Happy Rain

your name surely doesn’t equal what you said about Peter Lorre. Nor Betty Davis. Wow... that was awful.


27 posted on 08/06/2011 1:10:26 PM PDT by cubreporter (From TEA to Shining TEA - Go Rush Limbaugh..a giant of all that is good.)
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To: USNBandit
Rahm is like a dad, he wanted what was best for Obama, and Obama, being an idiot, acted like an immature brat, Rahm, is no good guy, he's a conniving corrupt little weasel, he just wanted Zeros agenda, done a different way.

I do remember reading about him trying to stab Pelosi in the back and his dream of being speaker of the house one day, he's a political animal, zero is a petulant child with no regard for counsel of others.

28 posted on 08/06/2011 1:11:12 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Lorianne
That’s why I reject the term ObamaCare. It is more like PelosiCare than any one else.

The name is good where it is - since the vast majority of the nation will never get the chance to vote against Pelosi.

29 posted on 08/06/2011 1:11:43 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: NorthStarStateConservative

Obama is a total thug totalitarian beneath that phony smile.

He came to destroy our country, and by God/Allah, he will have his way!


30 posted on 08/06/2011 1:11:51 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: NorthStarStateConservative
"Rahm Emanuel "Begged" Obama Not To Push Healthcare"

SO DID THE REST OF THE F!@#$%^!! COUNTRY!!

31 posted on 08/06/2011 1:19:49 PM PDT by red-dawg (Biden says I am a terrorist - I say he should RESIGN NOW.)
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To: NorthStarStateConservative
Wow - I would not want to get on her bad side.

Great woman, don't get me wrong. Loved her rant - and she obviously is a good manager.

If I was younger and dated her, I would terrified of her if I missed her birthday or something though.

32 posted on 08/06/2011 1:23:13 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: NorthStarStateConservative

Whoops - wrong thread for that response! It was about the business woman who told Obama off on Neil Cavuto. Sorry!


33 posted on 08/06/2011 1:24:04 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: NorthStarStateConservative

Please post the correct date in the future. This article is from May 14, 2010.


34 posted on 08/06/2011 1:35:05 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: hinckley buzzard
"wasn't sent here to do school uniforms."

'Coulda fooled me-

obama army

35 posted on 08/06/2011 1:42:42 PM PDT by mikrofon (Mmm, mmm, mmm ... Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: NorthStarStateConservative

Exactly why was Obama sent and who actually sent him.


36 posted on 08/06/2011 1:54:39 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: NorthStarStateConservative

But oddly, Obama didn’t have a plan. He let Senate and House staffers basically write the thing, and then tinker with it however needed to get it passed. If Obama saw it as such an important “mission” - why didn’t he have his own clear planks and positions in the so-called “Health Care Bill?”


37 posted on 08/06/2011 2:15:25 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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38 posted on 08/06/2011 2:59:06 PM PDT by RedMDer (Abolish FReepathons. Be a monthly donor.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“wasn’t sent here to do school uniforms.”

Well I didn’t send him there, but I thought he could at least be able wash School Uniforms.. meh...I was wrong


39 posted on 08/06/2011 4:31:09 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: USNBandit

What did Obamacare do to the economy? 90% of it doesn’t kick in until 2013.


40 posted on 08/07/2011 12:07:11 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (SP12: They called Reagan "unelectable", too.)
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