Wouldn’t it be cool if something happened in the next week to cause Obama to throw Creamy* under the bus? Then he’s resigned his seat for nothing.
* “Rahm” is the German word for “cream.”
I think he probably thinks he’s risen above merely being an IL rep.
Remember, he made $16M in just 2-1/2 years as an investment banker .... right.
He’s an enforcer and deal maker. Anyone who’s as connected to Mayor Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Bill Clinton and Obama as he is WELL connected and insulated and maybe protected.
But, we shall see what else Fitzgerald’s tapes and transcripts reveal and what else Rezko and Blago have to offer.
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From Wiki:
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Emanuel began his political career with the public interest and consumer rights organization Illinois Public Action.[23]
He went on to serve in a number of capacities in local and national politics, initially specializing in fundraising for Illinois campaigns and then nationally.[24]
Emanuel worked for Democrat Paul Simon’s 1984 election to the U.S. Senate, was the national campaign director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1988, and then was senior advisor and chief fundraiser for Richard M. Daley’s victorious campaign for Mayor of Chicago in 1989.[23]
At the start of then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton’s presidential primary campaign, Emanuel was appointed to direct the campaign’s finance committee.[24]
Emanuel insisted that Clinton schedule a lot of time for fundraising and greatly delay campaigning in New Hampshire. Clinton agreed and embarked on an aggressive fundraising campaign across the nation.
The fundraising paid off later, providing the campaign a vital buffer to keep buying television time as attacks on Clinton’s character threatened to swamp the campaign during the New Hampshire primary.[10]
Clinton’s most serious primary rival, Paul Tsongas (the New Hampshire Democratic primary winner in 1992), later withdrew, citing a lack of campaign funds.
Richard Mintz, a Washington public relations consultant who worked with Emanuel on the campaign, spoke about the soundness of the idea: “It was that [extra] million dollars that really allowed the campaign to withstand the storm we had to ride out in New Hampshire [over Clinton’s relationship with Gennifer Flowers and the controversy over his draft status during the Vietnam War ].”[10]
Emanuel’s knowledge of the top donors in the country, and his rapport with potential donors within the Jewish community helped Clinton amass a then-unheard-of sum of $72 million.[10]
Following the campaign, Emanuel became a senior advisor to Clinton at the White House from 1993 to 1998.
In the White House, Emanuel was initially Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and then Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy.
He was a leading strategist in the unsuccessful White House efforts to institute universal healthcare and many other Clinton initiatives.[25]
One of his proudest moments during the Clinton administration “was an event that touched his political sensibilities and his personal ties to Israel: the 1993 Rose Garden signing ceremony after the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (”PLO”).
Emanuel directed the details of the ceremony, down to the choreography of the famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat.”[10]
[edit] Career in finance
After serving as an advisor to Bill Clinton, in 1998 Emanuel resigned from his position in the Clinton administration.
He then became an investment banker at Wasserstein Perella, (now Dresdner Kleinwort), where he worked until 2002.[26]
In 1999, he became a managing director at the firm’s Chicago office. Emanuel made $16.2 million in his two-and-a-half-year stint as a banker, according to Congressional disclosures.[26][27]
At Wasserstein Perella, he worked on eight deals, including the acquisition by Commonwealth Edison of Peco Energy and the purchase by GTCR Golder Rauner of the SecurityLink home security unit from SBC Communications.[26]
Emanuel was named to the Board of Directors for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (”Freddie Mac”) by then President Bill Clinton in 2000.
His position paid him $31,060 in 2000 and $231,655 in 2001.[28]
During the time Emanuel spent on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities.[29]
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) later accused the board of having “failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.” Emanuel resigned from the board in 2001 when he ran for congress.[30]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
I thought it was puke face
* “Rahm” is the German word for “cream.”
I don’t even want to imagine how his father came up with that name.....
He's Jewish, not German. Rahm is Hebrew for "high," what Obama presumably was when he thought Rahm was a good choice for CoS.