Posted on 12/13/2008 5:18:50 PM PST by george76
THE bullish, foul-mouthed but effective Chicago arm-twister Rahm Emanuel has come under pressure to resign as Barack Obama’s chief of staff after it was revealed that he had been captured on court-approved wire-taps discussing the names of candidates for Obama’s Senate seat.
Emanuel’s presence at the heart of the scandal threatens to roil the president-elect’s administration as a Chicago prosecutor builds his corruption case against Rod Blagojevich, the Illinois governor.
Republicans are salivating at the prospect of tying the president-elect to the notoriously corrupt Chicago machine in which he forged his career. Grover Norquist, an influential conservative tax reform lobbyist, said: “If Obama wants to be squeaky clean, he is going to have to cut all his Chicago friends loose. His chief of staff has fingerprints on the murder weapon.”
Jarrett, Obama’s first choice as senator, was swiftly named a senior White House adviser to Obama after Blagojevich complained, according to FBI transcripts, that he was not going to “give f******” Jarrett the f****** Senate seat and I don’t get anything”.
However, questions remain over what Emanuel said when and how much he know about the governor’s “pay to play” scheme. He may have been fully aware of what Blagojevich was attempting.
Obama once joked at a charity “roast” that the notoriously crude Emanuel - who was elected to Congress in Blagojevich’s old seat - was rendered “practically mute” when he lost his middle finger in an accident.
“When you are Rahm Emanuel and you use the f-word all the time, it is supposed to be cute and amusing,” Norquist said. “When the governor of Illinois gets caught, people say, ‘Oh, he’s crazy’, and the proof that he is crazy is that he talks like Rahm Emanuel.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Oh snap! And did Emanuel talk to PEBO at all in the past 3 years?
hmm. Interesting. Rahm just might have to resign.
That’s not the Rahm Emmanuel I knew
Maybe Barry just needs to mail Rahm a dead fish.
Obama should resign, but he is mentored by Odinga... Terror in America will strike in design, stealthily or not - race card intimidation.
The British press is wasting their time. The American press has thoroughly investigated all of this and determined that there is absolutely nothing to it. Mr. Obama and his staff are perfectly innocent, they had nothing to do with this at all. Why, there’s really no evidence that Mr. Obama has ever met the Governor of Illinois - Mr. Obama is from Hawaii after all - that’s thousands of miles away from Chicago. Stupid Brits, they know nothing about American geography.
Oh this is just too good ... a member of Obambi’s staff having to reign BEFORE he’s even officially elected or taken the oath of office. This is a win-win either way for the Republicans. If good old Rahm doesn’t resign, they Repubicans can beat that drum for the next 4 years. And if he DOES resign, they can STILL bring it up!! Early Christmas present.
But they won't.
No standards, no guilt, no problem.
I don’t think any of this is going to stop Obama or Rahm. Obama will be certified by the electors, and Rahm will still be chief of staff. If somehow, Rahm is indicted, Obama will immediately pardon him, claiming it is a partisan witch hunt, and life will go on hunky dory.
“As a teenager, he severed his right middle finger slicing meat at Arby’s and went swimming in Lake Michigan before getting stitches. After the wound became severly infected, Emanuel had the top of his finger amputated and spent six weeks recovering.”
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856965,00.html
The “sound of Silence” continues to whirl around Obama fraud inc.
If so, would be sweet if "O" kicked this porcelain ballerina to the curb... leaving him to twirl in the wind.
He used to go around saying he lost the finger in some BS made-up story about serving in the IDF (Israel Defense Force)....like he stormed Mt. Suribachi, or some crap.
It’s all a lie —he was scrubbing pans, or something and cut himself.
The liar.
Republicans are salivating
Republicans are salivating
Republicans are salivating
Republicans are salivating
tasty
And Odinga is coming to the Inauguration. Wonder if he’ll bring his machete swinging groupies along?
How fitting indeed... US tax payer paid Odinga sit and trip to boot. Probably these are the real advisors.
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