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Rahm Emanuel: A profile of Barack Obama's enforcer
Telegraph ^ | 11/06/08 | Jon Swaine

Posted on 11/06/2008 7:13:10 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway

Rahm Emanuel, who has been chosen by Barack Obama to be the White House chief of staff, is known by colleagues as "Rahmbo" - a nickname reflecting his reputation as one of the most ferociously combative figures in Washington. Mr Emanuel, who received training in ballet as a boy, has shown no lightness of step in his political career: would-be enemies are advised to heed the story of a pollster who wronged him and promptly received a large, decomposing fish in the post. Reflecting on his own foul-mouthed, attack-dog style, Mr Emanuel has said: "I wake up some mornings hating me too." Commentators have suggested that Mr Obama, who ran a lofty campaign based on national unity and bipartisanship, has recognised the need to employ a tough enforcer to push through his policy programme.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obamatransitionfile; rahmemanuel
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He's the one who said ‘Republicans can go ‘f*** themselves’ during the Clinton administration.....

Great start, Hussein!

And John McCain wanted to reach across the isle to a party with this dog s#@& in it?.....

1 posted on 11/06/2008 7:13:10 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Isn’t he also a ballerina?


2 posted on 11/06/2008 7:13:56 AM PST by LA Woman3
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“who received training in ballet as a boy,”

It’s possibly why he’s so aggressive. He has to overcompensate for his effeminate upbringing.


3 posted on 11/06/2008 7:15:09 AM PST by Niuhuru (Fine, I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
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To: LA Woman3

Yeah....He’s going to dance for Hussein....


4 posted on 11/06/2008 7:15:15 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Periodically the voters decide to turn the White House into a garbage dump. First he served the Clintons, now he serves the One. But those are just temp jobs. He is on permanent retainer with the father of lies.


5 posted on 11/06/2008 7:15:30 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: MadLibDisease

mark


6 posted on 11/06/2008 7:15:39 AM PST by MadLibDisease (Proudly residing in Dar-al-Harb since 1959)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Can you say Joseph Goebbels?


7 posted on 11/06/2008 7:16:36 AM PST by NCBraveheart (NO WAY....NO HOW......NOBAMA!!!!!!!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Mr. Rahm Emanuel is also Jewish.

Just thought I’d throw that in there for fun and discussion.


8 posted on 11/06/2008 7:16:41 AM PST by madison10
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To: Niuhuru
It’s possibly why he’s so aggressive. He has to overcompensate for his effeminate upbringing.

A Boy Named Sue.

9 posted on 11/06/2008 7:16:56 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

There is going to be a lot of “entertainment” value in this administration...Rush is going to have a field day. Gonna love all the Black Panther types at the Inagural....Can’t wait to see Don King et al.

Might as well laugh! You know as well as I do that they can’t fullfil all those Messiah promises....and as of today....obama is getting security briefings that will be scaring him shi*less..... hahahahah get out the popcorn!


10 posted on 11/06/2008 7:17:59 AM PST by HappyinAZ
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
All the talk about Palin and the future of the Republican Party masks the coming fight in the Democrat Party. IMO, Nancy and Harry supported Obie because they saw him as someone who could be easily manipulated. They will soon understand as the press will that they have been played.

Obie's selection of Ram (yes I said Ram) Emanual as his Chief of Staff is a signal that Obama will be continue to play hardball politics Chicago style. There will be no leaks or disention from an Obama cabinet, period. They will march in lockstep or else.

Criticism from the MSM will not be tolerated. Press passts will be pulled. Count on it.

It is going to be a long four years.

11 posted on 11/06/2008 7:18:10 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( Sarah Palin is America's Margaret Thatcher; Obama is America's George Galloway.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Important talking point to the libs in your life.

After Obama trashed NAFTA and promises to reward companies for hiring here and punishing companies for hiring outside the US - the messiah went and got the creator of NAFTA as his chief of staff.

If you can capture their expressions with your pic/phone and post them that would be fun too.


12 posted on 11/06/2008 7:18:25 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Looking at it from a neutral point of view, I think he’s a good choice. I always though a chief of staff should be an enforcer type, not well-loved. That’s what I liked about John Sununu.

But this choice doesn’t go with the “I’ll work with you” kumbaya motif Obama’s been shoveling.


13 posted on 11/06/2008 7:19:32 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I think the Republicans could use several Emanuels-we could have used a few attack dogs in this past campaign. We surely need them now.


14 posted on 11/06/2008 7:20:56 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
From Emanuel's days with the Clintons:

Colleagues reported that amid a discussion over a celebratory dinner about which political figures had earned the new president's enmity, Mr Emanuel became so enraged that he grabbed a steak knife, stood up and began reciting a list of names, plunging the knife into the table and shouting "Dead! Dead! Dead!" after each one.

15 posted on 11/06/2008 7:21:09 AM PST by T. Buzzard Trueblood
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To: AngelesCrestHighway; holdonnow; justiceseeker93; Arrowhead1952; Piquaboy; SouthTexas; ...

From Ann Coulter’s column:

“We have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president. Starting tomorrow, if not sooner.”

And, now, my words of wisdom: It’s our turn. Turnabout is fair play and I plan to play to the best of my ability. I don’t respect this anti-American Socialist, his shrew, and his terrorist cohorts who disgrace our heritage, abhor our Constitution, our military, and who spit on our freedom.


16 posted on 11/06/2008 7:21:30 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“Obie’s selection of Ram (yes I said Ram) Emanual as his Chief of Staff is a signal that Obama will be continue to play hardball politics Chicago style.....”

Exactly....Husseins “Hope and Change” must be enforced, you see....


17 posted on 11/06/2008 7:21:55 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: antiRepublicrat
He's probably a good fit. In an Obomba WH, the CoS is probably going to be a bruiser. Emanuel is a thug. He'll be Obomba's leg breaker and not think twice about it.

In a way, this is good for us. If enough comes out (which will be the trick, we need an "ear" somewhere in the cesspool of an Obomba WH), it will expose these people as the thugs they are. Not that it will make any difference to the star-struck sheeple. Obomba is all about a Cult of Personality.

18 posted on 11/06/2008 7:24:18 AM PST by chimera
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To: ExTexasRedhead

In reality, A group of Chicago thugs up to their eyeballs in money from all over the world is taking over the White House. The Republican Party better find their collective nuts!.....


19 posted on 11/06/2008 7:25:35 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

the dancing domo. repubs should always refer to
him as “former ballerina,” rahm emmanuel.
he is a vicious pos and needs to be taken down.


20 posted on 11/06/2008 7:25:57 AM PST by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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