Between friends, Emanuel looking for neutral corner
By Mike Dorning
Washington Bureau
Published January 18, 2007, 5:29 PM CST
WASHINGTON -- "Of all the positions he has assumed in political wars, one rarely associated with the combative Rahm Emanuel is this: fetal. Yet that is where he finds himself when it comes to his preferred candidate in the 2008 presidential race.
Last April, the former Clinton White House aide publicly committed to his political patron's wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), a view he also echoed privately and more than once. Now, with the ascendant candidacy of home-state political phenomenon Sen. Barack Obama, Emanuel has gone to a strange place for him, a neutral corner. "I'm hiding under the desk," said the Chicago Democratic congressman. "I'm very far under the desk, and I'm bringing my paper and my phone."
Emanuel's dilemma is but one example of how Obama's rapid rise is interfering with the former first lady's carefully laid political plans and of the conflicting emotions of many Democratic activists now torn between loyalty to the Clinton administration and excitement over the party's rising star". ....snip.
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Hillary just said that she is going to UNITE the country. What a *itch! She is part of the PROBLEM, not the solution! I can't stand that arrogant power hungry witch!