Posted on 10/30/2008 4:37:35 PM PDT by Undertow
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said Thursday as the marathon presidential race entered its final, frenzied stretch with a Democratic tilt.
The disclosure came as Republican John McCain, in need of a comeback, focused on pocketbook issues amid fresh signs of a recession. "Ohio is hurting now, people in Ohio are having trouble staying in their homes, keeping their jobs," he said as he set out on a two-day bus tour of the state.
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Tell me Barry , what are the measurements of the window drapes in the oval office?
Isn’t there time from November 5 through January to pick a staff?
Rahm Emanuel? THAT’S the guy the leak??? HAHAHAHA....it’s usually some stateman that would motivate people. Rahm? hahaha. The Messiah & Emanuel...rich!
Arrogant communist bastard, is more like it. Well if America puts him in, they deserve EVERYTHING they will get. Idiots.
Rahm the Kapo.
I hope and pray
What’s the story behind Rahm Emanuel?
Chicago Politics....and anti-gun.
Don’t stop praying, folks...
Why he would be Perfect for Obama. Can you imagine the freaks in the Obama administration. Holy Mackeral dere Andy. The idiot Obama voters think if he wins their lives will be Utopian. HAHAHAHA. Wait till they find out the reality of the total bankruptcy in the Federal government and they can not get any free stuff.
I remember praying to God for Kerry to lose.
God: One more time. Please.
Yes he is, and the Jive Turkey still polls under 50%.
I think the Jive Turkey has gone mental on us.
Rahm Emanuel is a Justice Dept investigation just waiting to happen, mark my words.
Oh my gosh, what is he going to do to the White House?????? I don’t even want to think about what the remodel job will be:((( UGH
great it says that he is a very partisan Chicago official who is very good at fundraising
ah a pay back for him
wonder if he is the one who funneled the money to obama from the same credit card of warren buffet and soros
so now we’ll have all Chicago thugs in the white house
what’s next Ayers as the education
wright as the official chaplain
this is making me sick
More than likely he’s contacted Monica for a position in the Oval Office as well.
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.
They have acted with a sense of inevitability and entitlement from two years ago.
Kerry had the same arrogance.
It will hurt them.
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