tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post1166177596501096801..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: Rahm Emanuel: pitbull (hold the lipstick)David Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-40682950326671231902008-11-09T21:02:00.000+01:002008-11-09T21:02:00.000+01:00No one should be surprised that Obama has a ruthle...No one should be surprised that Obama has a ruthless side. I think Emmanuel reflects part of Obama's character.<BR/><BR/>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza?printable=true<BR/><BR/>When he first ran for State Senate he won by getting his rivals' (yes, all of them) nominating petitions thrown out for "irregulaties". As his defeated rival, Alice Palmer, said<BR/><BR/>"Anyone who enters Chicago politics and can’t take the rough and tumble shouldn’t be there"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-56069512579298064222008-11-08T01:26:00.000+01:002008-11-08T01:26:00.000+01:00Obama was never going to do anything for the Pales...Obama was never going to do anything for the Palestinians anyway. Remember how he fell all over himself in front of AIPAC last summer. The best we can hope for is a revived and effective 'peace process' that has some connection with reality and both sides. It may not seem like much, but the last eight years have demonstrated what happens when there is no policy at all.<BR/><BR/>Republicans aren't crazy about the appointment, which is good enough for me, but it doesn't seem to occur to a lot of Democrats that the people Emanuel is being hired to bully will be mostly liberals, probably.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-32039132963108602702008-11-07T15:45:00.000+01:002008-11-07T15:45:00.000+01:00Damn it's gettin' crowded here under Mr. Obama's b...Damn it's gettin' crowded here under Mr. Obama's bus. Now we've gotta find room for all these Palestinians.Marcyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649868333694186096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-31386886090713214722008-11-07T15:39:00.000+01:002008-11-07T15:39:00.000+01:00I had thought your Obama-skepticism a bit overdone...I had thought your Obama-skepticism a bit overdone. Silly me. <BR/><BR/>Rahm Emanuel's father speaks thusly: "In an interview with Ma'ariv, Emanuel's father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son's appointment would be good for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House." <BR/>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910047157&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter<BR/>(via Phil Weiss)<BR/><BR/>12 hours of infatuation is better than none, I suppose, but I was rather hoping it would be more enduring than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-1230156231237042072008-11-07T10:44:00.000+01:002008-11-07T10:44:00.000+01:00Engineers generally work off a kind of quadrant mo...Engineers generally work off a kind of quadrant model that allows for a nice/asshole axis and a competent/incompetent axis. For example, Obama lives in the first quadrant, probably, nice/competent, Rham exists in the 2nd quadrant, competent asshole (probably couldn't find another obama, understandable. <BR/><BR/>Just be thankful he didn't choose nice/incompetent or asshole/incompetent, like Bush. Chose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com