RAHM EMANUEL ANTI-CHRIST or SECOND COMING?

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The charismatic but tough talking White House Chief of Staff is often maligned but rarely praised, especially by the so called “progressives.” Blamed for everything from Afghanistan to health care, to the stimulus bill, Emanuel remains unflappable. As a matter of fact there are those who will tell you that this is the guy that holds it all together. My personal experience dictates that behind every good leader there is a Rahm Emanuel. Read the following Washington Post story and let me know what you think:

Rahm Emanuel is officially a Washington caricature. He’s the town’s resident leviathan, a bullying, bruising White House chief of staff who is a prime target for the failings of the Obama administration.

But a contrarian narrative is emerging: Emanuel is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration avoid its current bind if the president had heeded his advice on some of the most sensitive subjects of the year: health-care reform, jobs and trying alleged terrorists in civilian courts.

It is a view propounded by lawmakers and early supporters of President Obama who are frustrated because they think the administration has gone for the perfect at the expense of the plausible. They believe Emanuel, the town’s leading purveyor of four-letter words, a former Israeli army volunteer and a product of a famously argumentative family, was not aggressive enough in trying to persuade a singularly self-assured president and a coterie of true-believer advisers that “change you can believe in” is best pursued through accomplishments you can pass.

By all accounts, Obama selected Emanuel for his experience in the Clinton White House, his long relationships with the media and Democratic donors, and his well-established — and well-earned — reputation as a political enforcer, all of which neatly counterbalanced Obama’s detached, professorial manner. A president who would need the deft navigation of Congress to pass his ambitious legislation turned to the Illinois congressman and former chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee because he possessed a unique understanding of the legislative mind.

The pairing made sense, but things haven’t worked out as expected. And in the search for what has gone wrong, influential Democrats are — in unusually frank terms — blaming Obama and his closest campaign aides for not listening to Emanuel. And this puts the 50-year-old chief of staff in a very uncomfortable position.

Listening to Emanuel would serve “all our overall goals,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.). “I think that Rahm’s considerable legislative experience translates into advice that the president should heed.”

Instead, Obama went for the historically far-reaching, but more legislatively difficult, achievements that he and his campaign-forged inner circle believe they were sent to Washington to deliver.

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12 years ago

Its hard to find good help…

I am forever proclaiming that its difficult to get good help, but here is…

osori
14 years ago

I voted for Nader, but when Obama won the folks here in Oakland were in the streets cheering and dancing;my youngest and I joined the caravans honking and cheering. Sharing a great moment with the happy faces, black and brown and white. didn’t matter cause things had changed and everybody had hope.

I jumped off the bandwagon the next day when this motherfucker emmanuel got plugged in as Chief of Staff. He’s a rabid Zionist,thinks Israel needs to get TOUGHER with the Palestinians. Other than driving them off their lands, starving and torturing them I’m not sure how much more they can do other than outright nuking them to make Palestine completely white.

Yeah that’s when Obama showed his true colors. Guy couldn’t go one fucking day without kicking people in the teeth.

14 years ago

Holte : I do try very very hard to comprehend WTF is going on in the US of A. We have no dogs involved in running the show in the UK. Just monkeys…;-)

14 years ago

The Chief of Staff and the Vice-President should be Obama’s attack dogs. Well Joe is a cuddly lap-dog, so turn Emanuel loose Mr. President.

14 years ago

If he can come twice within 10 minutes he’s the Anti-Christ….;-)

14 years ago

Should be: I expect bet­ter from the Post.

14 years ago

Is Mr. Horowitz’s regular beat in Lifestyles? Because that article is the sort of soft-focus puff piece I’d expect from someone who writes glowing feature stories on fashion designers and celebrity chefs. We learn that Rahmmy is passionate, doesn’t always play well with others, sometimes loses his temper … in short, virtually nothing that’s the slightest bit edifying. I expect better from the Post.

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