Posted on 11/06/2008 8:06:33 PM PST by forkinsocket
America's Jewish community welcomed U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's pick of Rep. Rahm Emanuel for the post of Chief of Staff, saying that the choice demonstrates that Obama has learned from the mistakes of previous Democratic presidents.
On Thursday, Obama announced that Emanuel, a key official in the Clinton administration, had accepted his offer and will serve as the next White House Chief of Staff.
William Daroff, the director of the Washington office of the United Jewish Communities (UJC), an umbrella organization representing 155 Jewish Federations and 400 independent Jewish communities across North America, said Thursday "Rep. Emanuel is among the smartest political tacticians and policy-makers that is on the scene in Washington."
"He was singularly responsible for guiding many of the top legislative priorities of the Clinton administration when he was a senior White House aide. He crafted the House Democrats plan to regain the majority when he was their campaign committee chairman," Daroff went on to say.
"Choosing Rep. Emanuel is a sign that President-elect Obama is learning from the mistakes of the two most recent Democratic Presidents, who brought in Washington outsiders to run the White House, and did so at their own peril -- often finding themselves in battles with the Washington Democratic establishment. Emanuel's selection will avoid such 'freshman mistakes'," The UJC official continued.
"Rep. Emanuel is also a good friend of Israel, coming from good Irgun stock, davening at an Orthodox synagogue, and sending his children to Jewish day schools," Daroff concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Don’t be so sure...personnel IS policy. Every appointment to every significant position in Washington will go through his door.
We can only pray.
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Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
ABC News ^ | Nov. 7, 2008 | BRIAN ROSS and RHONDA SCHWARTZ
Posted on Friday, November 07, 2008 8:02:10 AM by FocusNexus
President-elect Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.
According to a complaint later filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.
Emanuel was not named in the SEC complaint but the entire board was later accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) of having “failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.”
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The red flags were spotted and the decision was made to fight Republican efforts to slow lending or regulate. The foxes own the hen house.
Mazel Tov????:-))
Yes, and Penn voters elected Murtha again. Your point is....?
None of this was secret. Obama was/is surrounded by Fannie and Freddie people. It was McCain's job to make it stick, he didn't. I don't recall him ever mentioning Emanuel.
Muawiyah: "Jewish Day School" is a code word for "This puke is from Chicago but he's keeping his kids pure by not sending them to school with the Negroes" .Wonder if the "Obama" girls are going there?ari-freedom: expensive private school for our kids but as for the other people...let them eat cake!
In my experience "Jewish Day School", in this case Anshe Emmet, is codeword for wed like our kids to get a religious education.
Implying that Jews who send their children to religiously affiliated schools are racists throws Catholics and homeschoolers in the same racist camp. Should we throw them all out of the GOP, more accurately the true conservative movement.
Rahm had no problems with Clinton's coup against Netanyahu. His daddy may have been Irgun but the congressman sees Israel as a colony the same way Rome saw Judea.
His Irgunist Dad is still alive and apparently just as liberal as his son. His mother seems to be a big lefty.
Where is the Stern Gang when you need them, for these Quislings.
Quite a group, the Stern Gang--everyone from militant nationalist Orthodox Jews to Communists to Arabs(!!!) who were attracted by the anti-British, anti-colonialist position. Rahm (actually his name is "Ram"--no heh or chet) was named after a member, Rachamim.
If that's the case, what's he doing hanging out in the "Osama" Obama's inner circle? Maybe he's a "good friend of Israel" in the same sense as the "J Street" crowd claims to be.
Reward for creating the financial crisis in time to elect Obama?
Something that’s been going on for 15 years pops up 2 months before the election?
Not true. Just a myth.
Rahm: Fiddler on a Hot Tin Roof.
They and British intelligence are reputed to know, among other things, that Obama was born in Kenya, and that he is therefore constitutionally ineligible to serve as POTUS.
The job description of the COS is not set in stone. It is what the president for whom he works wants it to be.
Yes, they haven't figured out yet that "social justice," which they couldn't even define if asked, is no justice at all.
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