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Opinion: Vikrum Aiyer: It's a Runoff, Now What? Parsing the Impacts of the Presidential Rematch in Afghanistan
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, Oct 23
By Vikrum Aiyer Regardless, the ability of the White House and Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to demonstrate a keen sense of diplomatic prowess with Karzai shined through this week. So, if Karzai were to hold onto his seat, the Obama Administration would be able to continue t...
Opinion: Rahm Emanuel's High-Paying, Do-Nothing Tenure at Freddie Mac
Original at Right Side
• Sat, Mar 28
One of those allegedly asleep-at-the-switch board members was Chicago's Rahm Emanuel-now chief of staff to President Barack Obama-who made at least $320000 for a 14-month stint at Freddie Mac that required little effort. "Little effort" may be an ...
Opinion: Rahm Emanuel Is Your New Obama Hottie [Obama Hotties]
Original at Gawker
• Tue, Jan 20
By Owen Thomas Amazing what people fetishize these days: Gray hair, dark circles under the eyes, average-at-best height, a missing middle finger? Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, beat conventionally gorgeous policy advisor Melody Barnes in our poll. Who's the hottest Obama staffer? polls)
Opinion: APB For One Rahm Emanuel
Original at Stop the ACLU
• Thu, Jan 8
PA - Washington has issued an APB for former Representative and putative Chief of staff for the Obama White House Rahm Emanual. Emanuel is 5′ 7″ tall, ... A Political Review of Illinois' 5th CD Gapers Block all 2 news articles
Opinion: Obama team report says there was no dealing with Blagojevich over ...
Original at Los Angeles Times
• Wed, Dec 24
Washington Post CA - Rod Blagojevich, at left, and President-elect Obama's incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, have worked together previously in Illinois politics as this ... Will Pay To Play Doom Illinois Politicians? Chicago Daily Observer
Opinion: Media run with unsourced assertion by Sun-Times columnist of "rumbles" that Emanuel "is reportedly on 21 different taped conversations"
Original at Media Matters for America
• Tue, Dec 23
That afternoon, during the 1 p.m. ET hour of MSNBC Live, anchor Andrea Mitchell reported that "The Chicago Sun-Times reports that incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is caught on tape discussing the Senate replacement with governor staff [sic] 21 times," then added that the c...
Opinion: Obama Governors' Meeting: Emanuel Shares Details
Original at Huffington Post
• Sun, Nov 30
By The Huffington Post News Team Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff, spoke with reporters on the press plane after a meeting with governors from both parties.... Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff, spoke with reporters on the press plane after a m...
Opinion: Obama begins to assemble team, meets privately with President Bush
Original at elon.edu
• Wed, Nov 12
BBC News NC - Obama named Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as the White House chief of staff. Emanuel, a veteran of the Clinton administration, has been a close advisor to ... Obama plans review of Bush executive orders San Jose Mercury News Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy New York Times
Opinion: ABC's Claire Shipman Bizarrely Spins Rahm Emanuel as 'Centrist'
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Thu, Nov 6
By Scott Whitlock In 2006, his rank was only four. In contrast, the House member's average from the liberal group Americans for Democratic Action is a very high 96. And yet, Shipman erroneously asserted, "More than anything, the 48-year-old Illinois representative is a pragmatic, centrist politician wh...
Opinion: A Drama In Two Acts
Original at Sadly, No!
• Thu, Nov 6
By Gavin M. According to the Cook County Assessor’s website, the Chicago home of four-term Democrat Congressman and likely new White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, doesn’t exist. While the address of 4228 North Hermitage is listed as Emanuel’s residence on the Illinois State Board of Electio...
Opinion: A Look Under the Hood at the (Potential) Obama Administration
Original at Dandelion Salad
• Thu, Nov 6
By dandelionsalad Obama’s key White House position will go to Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois. While Emanuel knows his way around the corridors of Washington, qualifying him in the traditional sense, this alone doesn’t mean he’s the guy you want drawing up Obama’s policy papers day after day.
Opinion: Rahm Emanual Evades Property Tax Burden
Original at race42008.com
• Thu, Nov 6
By Jason Bonham According to the Cook County Assessor’s website, the Chicago home of four-term Democrat Congressman and likely new White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, doesn’t exist. While the address of 4228 North Hermitage is listed as Emanuel’s residence on the Illinois State Board of Electio...
Opinion: DCCC’s Omnipotent Rahm Emanuel Blocks Stephen Colbert
Original at TPMCafe
• Wed, Mar 14
By opinionist That politically savvy news platform ‘The Hill‘, reported today [Jonathan E. Kaplan] that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) all-powerful Democratic Caucus Chair, Representative [IL] Rahm Emanuel, has forbidden freshly elected Democratic members of Cong...