Obama’s Transition Team Up and Running
[Guest post by DRJ]
Hot Air links a Chicago Sun-Times report that Obama has been raising money for his transition via the “Obama Transition Project” and now the AP reports the Obama campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel to serve as White House Chief of Staff.
Emanuel is known for his intensity as profiled in this Rolling Stone article entitled “The Enforcer”:
“Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel’s success is his legendary intensity. There’s the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. There’s the story about how his right middle finger was blown off by a Syrian tank when he was in the Israeli army. And there’s the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president’s enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting “Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!” and plunging the knife into the table after every name. “When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape,” one campaign veteran recalls. “It was like something out of The Godfather. But that’s Rahm for you.”
Of the three stories, only the second is a myth — Emanuel lost the finger to a meat slicer as a teenager and never served in the Israeli army. But it’s a measure of his considerable reputation as the enforcer in Clinton’s White House that so many people believe it to be true. You don’t earn the nickname “Rahmbo” being timid.”
So much for bipartisanship. It sounds like Obama’s idea of change is to replace Washington business-as-usual with Chicago business-as-usual.
— DRJ
Does anyone remember that video of Sadddam Hussein naming off “enemies of the regime,” while those “enemies” were still in the room? And, of course, they were all soon executed. I’m not saying “Rahmbo” or Obama would do that… at least not the execution part… but…
PDizzle (cb6b9b) — 10/30/2008 @ 8:30 pmBut Baracky is new and hopey and changey and post-partisan and post-racial and yadda yadda yadda.
JD (5b4781) — 10/30/2008 @ 8:33 pmRacists.
JD (5b4781) — 10/30/2008 @ 8:33 pmWhere is our transition team going to be? We are going to need counselors to help us overcome the shock of watching Obama and his leftist illuminati ideals change America into Islamica.
Jeff (7ff0a7) — 10/30/2008 @ 8:47 pmI know, Jeff. But we can bitterly cling to our guns and religion in recompense.
At least I think we can.
Eric Blair (51924c) — 10/30/2008 @ 8:51 pmI thought that the Left was up in arms because the money for the war was not in the budget, and was being borrowed from future generations?
The idea that he can say with a straight face that he will decrease net spending without laughing is a testament to how good of a politician Baracky and his comrades in the media are.
JD (5b4781) — 10/30/2008 @ 8:55 pmForget steak knives. Rahm will be shouting “meathooks” if this goes according to the Obamakin plan. Ugliest potential scenario I’ve ever seen. Don’t forget to vote.
driver (56cdca) — 10/30/2008 @ 8:57 pmSorry, should have included a [object]
JD (5b4781) — 10/30/2008 @ 8:59 pmI am pretty sure my attempts to link to that failed, miserably. I am trying again …
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/obama-claus.html
JD (5b4781) — 10/30/2008 @ 9:00 pmthe thing i remember about rahm was his appearance on meet the press when russert asked him about the foley memos and rahm kept dis combobulating-as in
pdbuttons (359493) — 10/30/2008 @ 9:24 pm“no-i have not SEEN the memos” etc/
truly a clinton dodge-i blame russert/tho he did ask him three times
what a weasel
ps-if that pussy could break eggs with a baseball bat..
pdbuttons (359493) — 10/30/2008 @ 9:27 pmi’ll take bets..
Nixon had a list of enemies
As a young attorney on the committee to impeach Nixon – Hillary used Nixons list of enemies to justify her essays/memos/screeds on why Nixon should not get legal representation during Watergate
Then in Washington – cooler heads prevailed and she was fired
Cooler heads are far gone now
This is the chnage weekend – this is where the people change their minds
this is when 4 pts swings one way or another
either we are going to barely elect McCain or give Obama a landslide
EricPWJohnson (47b9ab) — 10/30/2008 @ 11:21 pmEPWJ–
And if we could see a tape of Obama sitting next to Dohrn & Ayers, listening to a series of anti-Semitic speakers then stepping to the microphone to praise a PLO spokesman, we might get that 4 point swing.
But no. The times puts their “honor” before country. As if.
Kevin (0b2493) — 10/30/2008 @ 11:47 pmJust like the “most ethical Congress ever” promise.
Patricia (ee5c9d) — 10/31/2008 @ 11:23 am“But Baracky is new and hopey and changey and post-partisan and post-racial and yadda yadda yadda.”
I think he’s already post partisan. I mean, isn’t reagan’s chief of staff endorsing him?
imdw (c990d8) — 10/31/2008 @ 3:59 pm