Rahm: "I can hardly wait to get outta these tights and crack some heads. Where's my steak knife (inside joke)?"
Posted on 08/16/2009 8:11:09 PM PDT by khnyny
As Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel is arguably the second most powerful man in America. It's a job tailor-made for the unflappable—but that's not a description anyone would ever apply to Emanuel, not even when he was a political rookie raising money for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. If donors didn't agree to quintuple their normal contributions, Emanuel scolded them for their stinginess and hung up the phone. Obama senior adviser David Axelrod, who has known Emanuel for decades, contends the method displayed a level of chutzpah that "redefined the term." And it worked. Emanuel broke all fund-raising records.
Two things are absolutely clear about Rahm Emanuel. He is effective and he is extreme.
Emanuel says f*ck more frequently than "if, and, or but," insists political scientist Larry Sabato. Obama himself regularly jokes about Emanuel's profanity: "For Rahm, every day is a swearing-in ceremony." These days, Emanuel is making deliberate efforts to tone himself down. "I'm not yelling at people; I'm not jumping on tables [anymore]," he told Mark Leibovich of The New York Times.
Still, Emanuel displays many characteristics of a hypomanic temperament. This mildly manic disposition—which is not a mental illness—comes with assets that could propel someone to the top of his field: immense energy, drive, confidence, creativity, and infectious enthusiasm. I have found through interviews and historical accounts that hypomania has animated many leaders, from Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Carnegie to Emanuel's former boss Bill Clinton.
But it also carries a cluster of liabilities: overconfidence, irritability, and especially impulsivity that often pitches the hypomanic into hostility. Drives are heightened and impulse control is weakened, making the hypomanic brain like a Porsche with no brakes. In keeping with his hypomanic temperament, Emanuel doesn't need much sleep and he can't stay still.
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That takes a good PR firm to pull off - I wonder why he wants his name out there? I suspect Obama wants to dump him and he knows it.
"There is no rest," says my God, "for the wicked."--Isaiah 48:22
Then there's that...
I’m sorry, but that doesn’t make any sense. Why would someone hire a PR firm to make sure that the media publishes unflattering articles about them?
My feeling is this is definitely coming from elsewhere. Kind of a 100th monkey syndrome kind of thing.
Unless, of course, Rahm is such an egomaniac that he just wants to see his name in print as often as possible - there’s always that.:)
some say “hypomaniac”, I say coke freak.
Remember when Donald Duck would go on a !@#$%^&*! rampage using fowl language (couldn’t resist the pun) and said things like (expletive deleted). Rahm on a tear reminds me of that.
The fact that someone hasn’t bitch slapped this punk just goes to show you how many cowards reside on capital hill
Rahm: "I can hardly wait to get outta these tights and crack some heads. Where's my steak knife (inside joke)?"
he was always such a ‘nice jewish boy’...
Wouldn't you love to see a video of Rahm pitching a fit, and a voiceover of Donald Duck in one of his tantrums? LOLOL!
An extremely VILE man.
A condign warning to Rhamm and Exekiel; "And they that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon them."
These clowns are going to catch a lot of their own medecine come a day. Won't taste too good either.
mark
I don’t need a shrink to tell me these guys are a bunch of scumbags.
Two things are absolutely clear about Rahm Emanuel. He is effective and he is extreme.
When dealing with the world of corrupt Chicago politics, such tactics are very effective.
When dealing with the American people, such tactics are very ineffective.
Not to play Grammar Police, but “hypo” means under, and “hyper” means over.
Rahm Emmanuel is “hypermanic”, or is a “hypermaniac”.
Either way, the ranting Donald Duck is an accurate description of the POTUS’ advisor.
He says, "The unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful in a society tending toward totalitarianism. The (soon to be) totalitarian dictator would soon have to choose between disregard of ordinary morals and failure. They (socialists) set themselves a task which only the ruthless ready to disregard the barriers of accepted morality can execute."
Human nature is a constant. Hayek also predicts the rise of private civilian armies, inversion of the accepted meaning of common words, regulations made outside the normal legislative process, a demand to "get things done" immediately, the need to silence opponents, and ultimately when central planning fails, a rapid descent into open tyranny.
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