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Politics 5,000 Words about Rahm Emanuel
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:12 AM
For politics junkies: here's an excellent profile by Ryan Lizza of Obama's storied, swarthy, brooding chief of staff. First paragraph:
Rahm Emanuel’s office, which is no more than a three-second walk from the Oval Office, is as neat as a Marine barracks. On his desk, the files and documents, including leatherbound folders from the National Security Council, are precisely arranged, each one parallel with the desk’s edge. During a visit hours before Congress passed President Barack Obama’s stimulus package, on Friday, February 13th, I absently jostled one of Emanuel’s heavy wooden letter trays a few degrees off kilter. He glared at me disapprovingly. Next to his computer monitor is a smaller screen that looks like a handheld G.P.S. device and tells Emanuel where the President and senior White House officials are at all times. Over all, the office suggests the workspace of someone who, in a more psychologized realm than the West Wing of the White House and with a less exacting job than that of the President’s chief of staff, might be cited for “control issues.”
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Hoooooooooray for Israeli/US dual-citizens who are militant Zionists in the White House and Pentagon!
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I can't begin to express how happy I am to finally have a DEMOCRATIC pitbull in that office, instead of a damned doormat. Sic balls, Chopper!
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Control issues ... by a Chief of Staff.
Um, that's kind of the job definition.
This is a complaint?
Um, that's kind of the job definition.
This is a complaint?
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Anyone who ever watched The West Wing knows about the Green Screen box -- it's actually the Seccret Service's, not Rahm's.
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@ 10: Emanuel eats pieces of shit like Jindal for breakfast.
Not that he eats shit for breakfast. I meant it as a metaphor.
Not that he eats shit for breakfast. I meant it as a metaphor.
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I don't see how the slog can go around calling people racist for watermellon pictures (which are racist) and then go around calling people swarthy (which is racist).
I don't see how the slog can go around calling people racist for watermellon pictures (which are racist) and then go around calling people swarthy (which is racist).
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Once, I spotted Mr. Jindal Rogers crossing the White House Lawn, before Rahm Emanuel had him sent to Alaska to live on an ice floe with George Will.
Nice sweater.
Nice sweater.
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How the hell is it racist to call someone "swarthy"? It simply means he has a dark complexion. Which he does. Sometimes this PC crap gets taken way too far. Is it racist to call someone fair-skinned?
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