Posted on 11/08/2008 11:51:18 PM PST by STARWISE
It took only 36 hours for President-elect Barack Obama to take the off ramp from the Change We Can Believe In Highway and slam his foot on the gas in the express lanes of the Chicago Way.
Because with his first official act, Obama selected a Chicago Daley machine guy for his chief of staff, U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Tomczak).
*snip*
"And no one I know is better at getting things done than Rahm Emanuel."
Among Chicago politicians, the Emanuel announcement was treated with enthusiasm. But it was enthusiasm of the political salivary gland at the prospect of federal pork and leverage.
"It's a gain," said Mayor Richard Daley, speculating on all the contracts he would be able to give with new federal money. "It's a real gain, gain, gain," he said, repeating the word as if in prayer.
Chicago may have a history of corruption, but our politicians are realists. They're not fools. And Emanuel, though he has many critics, is no fool.
From Washington, however, you could hear that giant sucking sound as the Washington media praised Emanuel, as if the appointment was testament to change.
There was so much sucking up, they may have created an El Niño effect that will plague our planet for years.
*snip*
But the least they could have done was rate themselves NC-17. And they could have acknowledged what they were doing, which was praising him to their readers and viewers in hopes of maintaining or guaranteeing that access.
Washington media types talk about him as a Clinton guy, but Emanuel is really a Chicago City Hall guy. At City Hall, the unwritten rule is we don't want nobody nobody sent. The guy who sent Emanuel to then-candidate Bill Clinton in 1991 is named Daley. Bill Daley, the mayor's brother.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
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Our White House, taken over by the Chicago Political Machine ... unreal.
I bet the Olympics are now a lock for Chicago.
~~PONG!
Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
New Obama Chief of Staff, Others on Board, Missed “Red Flags” of Alleged Fraud Scheme
By BRIAN ROSS and RHONDA SCHWARTZ
November 7, 2008
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President-elect Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.
President-elect Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.
According to a complaint later filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.
Emanuel was not named in the SEC complaint (click here to read)
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2007/2007-205.htm
but the entire board was later accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) (click here to read)
http://abcnews.go.com/images/Blotter/specialreport122003.pdf
of having “failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.”
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6201900&page=1
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I don’t think the disgust and misery
I’m feeling about this whole election
fiasco and outcome will ever leave
Dear Lord, save us.
Oh, I am so scared of Ballet Boy (NOT)! Those little short farts are good subsitutes for cat or drawf tossing. Short guys like that always have a complex and are always guilty of something and fall hard when they do fall, we should raise a Private Investigator fund to go find it.
Do these people scotch tape their faces so they won’t fall down laughing at the public yelling out “Suckers”?
And don’t we all feel
like that now.
Sham .. wow.
Hillary must be thinking ... Darn... I should have stayed in Chicago!!!!
Someone said that Rahm served in the Israeli army.
Just curious, no srcasm.
I wonder if Rahm will adopt Bush’s “new tone”?
“I bet the Olympics are now a lock for Chicago.”
It deserves no better...
I’m starting to get the same idea about the new regime in Washington as I have about the “new” state government in North Carolina: They’ll be so busy looting the treasury to make themselves and their friends rich that they want have any time to spare for the things that would really affect me. (Like building a turnpike past my door.)
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