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Obama’s pick for chief of staff called ‘Rahmbo’
Deseret News, The (Salt Lake City, UT) - Friday, November 7, 2008
Author: Calvin Woodward and Christopher Wills Associated Press
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(Emanuel) was vice chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority and also served on the boards of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, beautyjungle.com and Slim-Fast, whose founder, S. Daniel Abraham, is a major Democratic donor.
(liz, see also #203)
So it is likely that Rahmbo set this ‘job’ up to get Wexler out of the way. Why? I don’t see Wexler resigning just because he wants to ‘spend more time with his family’ or ‘make more money’. Something is up. Too bad our so called press is corrupted, it might be interesting to find out what is going on here. Lots of possibilities.
Emanuel was recruited for his investment banking job by Bruce Wasserstein, a Wall Street dealmaker who was one of Clinton's most active fundraisers in the financial community. Emanuel's two biggest deals involved politically connected utilities: representing Commonwealth Edison's corporate parent in a merger; representing a buyer in the purchase of a home security business from telecom giant SBC Communications. SBC then hired as its president William Daley, Clinton's commerce secretary (brother of Chicago's mayor).
He gained other commissions by pitching such major Democratic donors as S. Daniel Abraham, the press-shy billionaire and former owner of Slim-Fast, and Bernard Schwartz, a defense industrialist who was a central figure in a scandal over the export of missile technology to China. W/ their wives, these were the largest individual Dem donors in the last presidential election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Emanuel was vice chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority and served on the boards of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, beautyjungle.com, and Slim-Fast, whose founder, S. Daniel Abraham, is a major Dem donor.
Pres Clinton in 2000 named Rahm to the Freddie Mac Board. Rahm was paid $31,060 in 2000 and $231,655 in 2001---of course, Rahm paid all his taxes. During Emanuel's tenure, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) later accused the Freddie Mac 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.
Rahm leaned heavily upon the industry as 2006 Dem Congressional Campaign Committee Chair. Financial industry donors contributed more than $5.8M to the Dem committee, behind only retirees.
THIS IS THE CREEP IN OUR WH Obama was meeting with top lawmakers when Rahm Emanuel began nervously cracking a knuckle..... Obama turned to complain. Emanuel then held the offending knuckle up to Obama’s ear and, like an annoying little brother, snapped off a few special cracks.
This episode is illustrative of a seriously disturbed sociopath .......b/c Obama was getting the attention, Rahm began cracking his knuckles to assure everyone and himself that he, too, was present. The guy NEEDS to be in the limelight.....he needs ego-boosting at all times. Notice how he arrogantly stands with his hands on hips for official pics---just so he will stand out from the crowd.
SELFLESS RAHM was a civilian volunteer assisting the Israel Defense Forces during the 1991 Gulf War, repairing truck brakes in one of Israel's northern bases.
RAHM HAS GIVEN OUT THIS VERSION During the 1991 Gulf War, Israel was asked by the United States not to militarily respond to the Scud missiles that Iraq was hurling at them. Israel did not .........and Rahm was in Israel to assist them in not responding militarily.
Rahm volunteered for “Sar’el”——a three-week Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) training program (like US boot camp) where civilians are trained to assist the Israeli military. Civilians like Rahm lived on an IDF military base to get the proper training. A civilian volunteer, Rahm assisted the IDF during the 1991 Gulf War, repairing truck brakes in one of Israel’s northern bases. Rham Emanuel has been trained to organize a civilian security force at “Sar’el”---the IDF training program for civilians.
FRIGHTENING STATEMENT Obama has stated that Rahm tells him "everything he needs to know about Israel." Rahm's father was an Israeli who was part of the underground resistance movement under the British Mandate.
ANOTHER RAHM VERSION Rahm Emmanuel for many years went around claiming that he’d lost a finger in actions against Israel's enemy when he was in a tank. Now if Rahm fought in the military of foreign government, that would negate his American citizenship.
Obaba can settle these viscious Islamic smears ONCE AND FOR ALL. Obaba should obtain copies of Rahm's “Sar’el” paychecks to demonstrate that payments to Rahm were NOT coming out of the IDF military budget. Cause if they did, that would wipeout Rahm's US citizenship (bawl) when they serve in the military of a foreign government).
Rahm Emanuel today is a dual Israeli-American citizen. It is not clear whether a dual citizen is permitted to serve in a high level US govt job that makes policy decisions for Americans.