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[Gopher]

[Freakstar]

OMG. I personally know Rahm's brother, Ari. Get the f*ck outta here!!!!!! Wow. Congrats to Rahm.

Interesting choice though, since Rahm is very close to the Clintons.

[Ya-ta Boy]

From Wiki:

[H]e reportedly told British Prime Minister Tony Blair, prior to Blair appearing in public with Clinton for the first time after the Lewinsky scandal, "This is important. Don't *beep* it up."[8]
I can see that.

Emanuel is said to have "mailed a rotting fish to a former coworker after the two parted ways."[7]
Not very original.

On the night after the 1996 election, "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."[1]
Ummm...can't Obama keep looking?

His "take-no-prisoners attitude" earned him the nickname "Rahm-bo".[7]

People who worked with Emanuel at that time "insist the once hard-charging staffer has mellowed out."

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If these reports on Wiki are true, I think Obama needs to go to his second choice. Whoever it is, it must be better than this guy. Rham sounds like he took 20 years longer than the rest of us to grow up.

[Freakstar]

[bangbayed]

A bit of trivia, Rahm Emmanuel's brother, Ari is a Hollywood talent agent who Jeremy Piven basically plays on HBO's Entourage.

[Tiger Beer]

Well, looks like JOO RIP can faithfully and gladly go back to being a staunch Democrat again (like he claims he was before the War in Iraq).

RAHM EMANUEL is a Zionist and loyalist to ISRAEL and essentially a NEOCON as well. I smell trouble with this guy. He was always critical of BUSH, because he thought BUSH was ineffective, clueless, and the entire other range of idiocies. Emanuel however, certainly wants the wars on terrorism and protect Israel at all costs of the neocons, he just simply thinks he knows significantly more effective ways to go about it (probably does, Bush was certainly inefficient).

DOMESTICALLY. He also has a book: �Big Ideas for America�. I haven't read the book, but I don't see many big ideas from reviews I've read. Mostly he wants to increase the healthcare industry scam so it covers more people, particularly children. Not that surprising there. He also wants education to be changed slightly to reward teachers, plus free eduction to those who join the armed services, and he wants to make 401K plans mandatory (essentially to deal with the presumed loss of social security that probably won't be there). Nothing much more to his supposed 'Democrat version of the CONTRACT WITH AMERICA' that Newt so revolutionized in his day. That's about it domestically.

BIGGEST THINGS he wants to do: 100,000 more soldiers into the U.S. military, and make an elite agency to fight DOMESTIC terrorism. he also wants all Americans aged 18-25 to undergo three months of compulsory disaster-training.

SO...my personal assessment: LOUSY CHOICE. Great for those who are seriously concerned about terrorism and think it is the greatest threat to America though, and that most of American taxpayer money should be going to that cause and that cause alone at the expense of all else.

[Ya-ta Boy]

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[Bibbitybop]

Yes! Wikipedia citations!

[ManintheMiddle]

As namby-pamby liberals would say, "He has some issues."

Yes, anger managment classes might help, or perhaps he's had them already. Wonder if he will be Obama's attack dog and, if so, how Obama can hope to be bi-partisan. Of course this is all little more than idle speculation at this early juncture.

I know this much: the man is solidly pro-Israeli and was once accused of being a Zionist. So while Shimon Peres will rest easier I'm not sure Abbas will.

[Adventurer]

I am not too crazy over Rahm either, because he is too hard-nosed, I feel, and I understand you have to be, sometimes, to be successful. As far as Zionists, Clinton had Martin Indyk, so there is nothing unusual about having an ardent Zionist. Rahm might be useful if people go on the attack against Barak Obama. He has his strong points. I just have my reservations. I hope Reich is included in the cabinet, but I doubt that will happen. As long as Obama puts in a balanced cabinet, then it might be fine. There was no balance in the Bush Administration as we all know. Rice became like Powell after Powell left, though belatedly so.

[Freakstar]

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