Thread: Obama Makes Chief-Of-Staff Move

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Obama 'makes chief-of-staff move'

A controversial Democratic congressman has reportedly been approached by US presidential hopeful Barack Obama to be his chief-of-staff.

Rahm Emanuel was named by Democratic sources as a contender for the job.

The Illinois congressman is considered a highly partisan politician who served in Bill Clinton's White House.

The BBC's Justin Webb says the McCain campaign say this is an example of the real face of an Obama administration - governed from the left.

Mr Obama refused to be drawn on reports he had approached Mr Emanuel about becoming his chief-of-staff.

"I'm trying to win an election," he told reporters when asked the question as he stepped off a flight in Missouri.

"Plouffe is my chief-of-staff," he added, referring to campaign manager David Plouffe.


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An aide to Mr Emanuel told the AP "he has not been contacted to take a job in an administration that does not yet exist".

Mr Emanuel, 48, was a senior adviser to President Clinton and has made a rapid rise up the House of Representatives ladder since his election to Congress.

He was chairman of the Democratic campaign committee two years ago when the party won a majority in Congress for the first time in more than a decade.

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain made an eleventh hour plea for donations on Thursday in an effort to pull off a surprise victory in next week's election.

McCain has no wiggle room - one failure and he's done for
The BBC's Matthew Price, in Mentor, Ohio

His plea to supporters came less than a day after Mr Obama spent an estimated $5m (£3.1m) on a 30-minute primetime "infomercial" aired on US TV networks.

Mr McCain spent Thursday campaigning in Ohio, which is seen as a must-win state if he is to have any chance of overall victory.

The latest national poll by CBS and the New York Times puts him 13% behind his Democratic rival, Barack Obama.

Mr Obama held rallies in Virginia, Florida and Missouri on Thursday on a final dash around swing states.

Polls in battleground states suggest the differences between the two candidates are much slimmer.

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Mr Emanuel is the guy whos on record saying Republicans can go MOD EDIT themselves.

Here's an article about him from the Chicago Sun-Times. It's a couple of years old now. Look at Pelosi's quote at the very end of the article. Gawd....


Sweet, Brown columns go inside Rahm
By
Lynn Sweet
on November 12, 2006 8:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (12)

My colleague Mark Brown provides a unique look into Rahm Emanuel in his Sunday column, "Emanuel's political climb leaves an old friendship on back burner"
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/1327 ... 12.article)">
And here's the top of my column:
Call him abrasive, cold-blooded, arrogant, manipulative, fierce loyalist, even charming, if it serves his business purpose.


Call him a master political strategist who just out-roved Karl Rove, Bush's politics guru.

Call him a policy wonk, which he would prefer, since it fits his evolving self-image better.

You may correctly call Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) all of the above.

And here is a prediction: Someday, you may be calling Emanuel "Mr. Speaker."

Emanuel's potential trajectory is set as a result of his key role in the Democrats retaking the House last Tuesday. He has been the chief of the House Democratic political operation for the last 22 months.


Takes No. 4 post for now
By almost two decades, Emanuel, who turns 47 on Nov. 29, becomes the youngest member of the incoming House Democratic leadership team when the new Congress is sworn in in January.
He is taking the fourth-ranking leadership post for his reward, rather than the third-ranking slot he could have easily argued he earned. Emanuel saw no reason to get in a fight for third place with an African-American rival who already put in for the job, when the prize that is worth fighting for is one day to be No. 1.

With Emanuel so much in the news, here is a refresher -- the essential Emanuel:

Family home: Traded up from Far North Side Chicago for Wilmette. Graduated from New Trier West. Israeli father, Benjamin, a pediatrician; mother, Marsha, a social worker. Undergraduate Sarah Lawrence; master's in communications from Northwestern University.

Sibs: Ari, super agent to Hollywood stars; Ezekiel, a physician, chairman of the department of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health; Shoshana, rarely mentioned.

Family: Wife, Amy; two daughters and a son. Sliced off tip of index finger of right hand working at a local Arbys at age 17. Ballet dancer.

Religion: Jewish.

Political resume: 1980s, starts with Illinois Public Action Council: runs House Democratic field operations. Fund-raiser for Sen. Paul Simon, Mayor Daley campaigns. Launches alliance with media strategist David Axelrod, his key adviser.

1990s, starts his opposition research firm. 1991, joins the Bill Clinton presidential campaign, moves to Little Rock, Ark. Saves Clinton by raising millions while Clinton is dogged by the Gennifer Flowers scandal.

Clinton White House years: Rewarded with job as White House political director in January 1993. Demoted by June. Resurrected by taking on NAFTA (with Bill Daley), other policy projects. Escapes controversy during impeachment. Leaves White House in 1998, never having to hire a lawyer. Clinton loyalist.

Chicago: Returns to Ravenswood, makes millions as an investment banker in a few deals; tapped by Clinton for a plum spot on Freddie Mac board; Daley appointee on CHA board. Wins House seat in 2002 with help of Daley Machine. Daley loyalist.

Congress: Came in with a running start because he knew Dem leaders from Clinton White House and was seen as a fund-raiser who could work the elite donor network. Demands seat on Ways and Means Committee as price for taking on political job; chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The best quote: "He's as cold-blooded as I need him to be to make the decisions." -- House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Emanuel, May 27 National Journal.


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Emanuel allegedly said over a year ago (widely printed at the time) that the Dems would not attempt comprehensive immigration reform (i.e. amnesty) until at least the second term of a prospective Democratic president. We'll see what happens though as the ethnocentric and open border groups will likely push for mass amnesty ASAP.

Originally Posted by Populist

Emanuel allegedly said over a year ago (widely printed at the time) that the Dems would not attempt comprehensive immigration reform (i.e. amnesty) until at least the second term of a prospective Democratic president. We'll see what happens though as the ethnocentric and open border groups will likely push for mass amnesty ASAP.

Yes I remember that.

But what you wanna a bet they won't wait if they have a super majority.