Looks more like a Rahm-butt ta me!
Posted on 11/06/2008 5:28:47 PM PST by Kaslin
Transition: Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to change the partisan tone in Washington. So why did he pick a take-no-prisoners partisan for his chief of staff?
After Emanuel helped the Democrats win Congress in 2006, he told a gathering of celebrating staffers and campaign workers that Republicans "can go f*** themselves," according to Chicago Tribune reporter Naftali Bendavid in her book, "The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution."
Emanuel also has a favorite pejorative for GOP foes — "knucklef***s" — though he prides himself on being "an equal-opportunity pr*ck." Indeed, he was overheard telling a fellow Democrat candidate whom he was helping win office:
"Don't f*** it up or I'll f*** you."
And he once sent a dead fish in a mahogany box to a Democratic pollster with whom he quarreled while working as a fundraiser in the 1980s.
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Obambi was told who to pick!
Classy guy.
It looks like Obama still doesn't care who he surrounds himself with.
Looks more like a Rahm-butt ta me!
....and he is a trained ballerina!!
Dems have so much class, don’t they.
A Chicago type thug administration is what we can expect. And most Dems will think it’s just wonderful. We on the other hand can sit back and just ridicule the whole from start to finish.
I wouldn't underestimate this guy. He managed to become POTUS.
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As an Illinoian, I’m happy there will be one less ambitious, in your face, aggressive, combative, ruthless, pit bull, Rahmbo, equal opportunity prick representing my state in Congress!
Wish we had some ballbreakers in the GOP instead of wusses
Obama was bought and paid for by some one. Ironic if you think about it
rahm emanuel was the strategist behind the 2006 democrat u.s. congress win.
the democrats have successfully removed big and small pubies from the u.s. congress and senate.
and the democrat “dinosaur media” have successfully made the majority of americans despise president george w bush, partly because he did not defend himself.
Tom DeLay would make Rahm look like Trent Lott.
There’s something about him, something about his appearance, kind of an of the dark side aura? I dunno...something about that guy.
Both Jackson’s are empty suits. Also enamored of
themselves...didn’t hear much from them and big
Al, another large suit..empty, also. They will be
around now..bet your sweet bippee on it.. JK
So much for national unity.
rino-in-chief lyndsey thought rahm was great pick....
The choice worries me, actually, as it demonstrates there’s some slight brain involved in picking the White House team. Doesn’t matter his history with Republicans; if we imagined Obama would have an open door to us, we were smoking something considered medicinal in several states. What it does do is send a very clear message to Pelosi and Reid that the White House will be independent of them, and they’ll stomp anyone who imagines that Obama’s not the head of the party now.
This is actually probably the best development for us, actually. Obama’s driven by poll results, and will be constantly on watch for opinion polls about himself. Which pretty much means a lot of the radical ideas that Pelosi has in mind right now aren’t going to come true. And it means we can use public opinion to help keep some of the Marxist agenda under control.
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