Posted on 01/24/2011 10:09:04 AM PST by Piranha
Rahm checked off that box truthfully b/c, in his deluded, power-crazed mind, he had no intention of going back to Chicago for a long, long time....after all, no one in their right mind would give up a high-ranking WH COS job to run for a pedestrian job like Mayor of Chicago.
BACKSTORY Then Obama's numbers started diving as the Tea Party ascended. Once beatified as Dem campaign guru, Rahm was given the bum's rush out of Washington before Nov 2010 Midterms----as disaster loomed---in hopes of saving a few Dem seats.
Rahm had committed the ultimate presidential crime---he failed to protect Obama from voters' revenge. W/ Dems out out of power---Rahm desperately needed to show he was still a player---thus the mayoral run.
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LAUGH BREAK----NEWS STORY Just last week, Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel launched his campaign ads in the style of his political foe, Speaker of the House John Boehner -- with crocodile tears.
His first TV spot features a casually dressed Emanuel wearing khakis, T-shirt and leather jacket. Famed tough-talker Emanuel looks into the camera with a slight tear in his eye and expresses love for his hometown city. This isn't the first time Rahmbo shed tears to show a softer side -- he welled up when he announced his resignation as White House chief of staff in October.
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/wet_approach_e7xTCBSQnYbLjqCBEtS4GO#ixzz1BrimSx1j
How you do dat?????????????..............
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when Rahm got the news.
i’m ambivalent
but If he paid no state income then he is cooked
I would like to have seen that hissy fit!!
Need “woo hoo” on Rahm-E pages!
Is that right?
He can’t run?
What now?
Good thing you said that. The fly on the wall was the only thing left alive in the room.
They’re starting to scare me.
I JUST found this image and am about to use it!
Good catch.
This calls for a trip over to HillBuzz.
ROFL.
FOAD? Flitter Off And Dance!
What now?
Rahm-E does a stint on DWS!
Not that a judicial ruling, or any law for that matter, is much of an impediment to Chicago politics....
“At an impromptu press conference on Monday afternoon, Emanuel announced that he would file a stay to keep his name on the ballot while the issue was sorted out. At the same time, Langdon Neal, chairman of the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago, declared that the commission was “going to press [on] with one less candidate for mayor.”
The potential for legal problems is immense. As of now, no ballots have been printed or mailed to Chicagoans with Emanuel’s name on them, Emanuel’s aide Ben LaBolt confirmed. But ballots will have to be printed before the early voting begins on Jan. 31. The state Supreme Court will, in all likelihood, expedite its hearings (should it take up an appeal of Monday’s ruling). But there remains the possibility that the debate over Emanuel’s residential status won’t be resolved by the time ballots are printed.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/24/rahm-emanuel-ruling-mayor-chicago_n_813261.html
Oh no. Much as I know Rahm is a snake, I’d rather him than Carol Mosely-Braun, the official Black Candidate(TM). She’s a nitwit.
You misspelled Carol Mostly Fraud
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