Rahm Emanuel

By rss@youtube.com (obaidkarki) Keywords: Senate seat valuable commodity Ron Blagojevich Antoine Rezko Rahm Emanuel David Axelrod Obama Shortlist abcnews Fox News Chicago pawning off jackson 'innocent' interaction Tugs on Obama's Sleeve Barack candidates recordings appointed White House Chief of Staff citize...

By The Huffington Post News Team We're your friends and the president is pro-choice, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel reminded the group of 15 or so women. There's no need for anger here, senior adviser and Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett offered, according to people knowledgeable about the session, who spoke on condition...

By Will Durst Its a tricky game this riling the rabble that Obama is playing. You got to be awfully careful when you poke the cobra. Fortunately he's got the extra long pointy sticks that are David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel to do the dirty work. Another problem is both sides know that as the rhetoric ratchets u...

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Kathryn Jean Lopez) But today's round of golf comes after some questions raised by the media about what some critics say is a too-fratty atmosphere in the White House, a place where the president's closest advisers -- chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser David Axelrod, and press secretary Robert Gib...

By Nancy Snow It's very dangerous territory to tread for the Obama administration elite troika of Rahm Emanuel, Anita Dunn and David Axelrod.  Anita Dunn started the finger pointing with her appearance on Howard Kurtz’s “Reliable Sources.”  She said, "Fox News often operates almost as either the res...

By ABCNews.com But today's round of golf comes after some questions raised by the media about what some critics say is a too-fratty atmosphere in the White House, a place where the president's closest advisers -- chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser David Axelrod, and press secretary Robert Gib...

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (NRO Staff) The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox “not really a n...

On Sunday, two of Barack Obama's top aides took shots at the Fox News Channel. Rahm Emanuel said it was "not a news organization," and David Axelrod said it was "not really a news station." The White House is shunning the network. When the president made the rounds of Sunday shows recently he os...

By Faiz Shakir Appearing on separate Sunday political talk shows, two key Obama advisers — David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel — were asked about the White House’s recent verbal attacks against Fox News. Both advisers made the point that Fox is not a legitimate news outlet, but rather a network with a biased p...

By The Huffington Post News Team White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel continued the Obama administration's criticism of Fox News during their interviews this morning... White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel continued the Obama administration's cr...

Face the Nation hosts WH Cos Rahm Emanuel, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). This Week hosts WH sr. adviser David Axelrod. The roundtable will feature Washington Post's George Will, Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, Washington Post's E.J. Dionne and New York Times' Paul Kru...

WASHINGTON--The three top Chicagoans in the White House (other than President Obama and First Lady Michelle)--Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel-- are deployed to the Sunday shows, the first time, I believe that the three have been on separate shows on the same morning.

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Mark Steyn) I believe, since he's also won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his groundbreaking work demonstrating that "profit" is part of "overhead", that the prize is being increased to $1 trillion. They give it him in small bills and if Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod can get it in the attache case th...

By John Cook David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel aren't stupid: Expect to see Barack Obama get on the plane after his session with the International Olympics Committee at mid-day Friday Copenhagen time, and be in Afghanistan with our troops five hours later, in time for the evening news Friday here in the...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Earlier this month, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Netanyahu called senior White House officials Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod "self-hating Jews," which Haaretz said was a sign of Netanyahu's "paranoia." More on Israel

 CA I do have to say, though, that this is a tough holiday for Rahm Emanuel because he's not used to saying the word "day" after "mother." (Laughter.) That's true. (Laughter.) David Axelrod is here. You know, David and I have been together for a long time. ...

By Ewen MacAskill in Chicago The inner circle in the White House will be overwhelmingly Chicagoan. His two chief advisers, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, are both long-time associates from the city, and his White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is another.

Jarrett shares a senior adviser title with David Axelrod, who will informally supervise the White House communications operation.  But Jarrett's job will probably be more important. Outside of Rahm Emanuel, she's destined to become the second most powerful staffer in the place.

That's what David Axelrod said. But Barack Obama said, "I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening." Blagojevich trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. David Axelrod on November 23rd says to Fox News in Chi...

By William Klein Rahm Emanuel: You're not even f----n' close. Barack Obama: OK, I give up. Who? Barack Obama: So tell me. David Axelrod: Your sure won't.. Barack Obama: Tell me! All : Hillary! Barack Obama: Hillary? David Axelrod: Well, maybe not that. Rahm Emanuel: You really f----n' are. Barack Obama: ?

By Andrew Malcolm Obama-Biden Transition Team Announces More White House Staff David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to the President David Axelrod served as President-elect Obama’s Chief Strategist during the presidential campaign, and led Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign.

David Axelrod served as President-elect Obama's Chief Strategist during the presidential campaign, and led Obama's 2004 Senate campaign. A native of New York City, Axelrod graduated from the University of Chicago and spent eight years as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he co...

By Ann Althouse(annalthouse@mac.com) Mr. Obama has been close to Mr. Emanuel since arriving on Capitol Hill; Mr. Emanuel considers David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s chief strategist, to be one of his closest friends. The three share a common policy view and would make a formidable triumvirate in the White House....

By Justin Gardner This move even more sense if you think about how close Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are. New Republic has this… Despite their very, uh, different personalities, Obama and Emanuel have one big thing in common: David Axelrod. Emanuel is one of Axelrod’s closest friends; Axelrod even signed the k...