emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 11/11/2008
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Maybe it's the addition of beltway leaker extraordinaire, Rahm Emmanuel, to the team, but it appears that the Obama team may have adopted a new policy on leaks, departing from their eerily disciplined no-leak approach during the campaign.
Note this passage in NYT's coverage of Obama's ...
balloon-juice.com - 11/12/2008
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balloon-juice.com —
Moron : As expected, the Obama Cult does
not like to read any questioning of their Dear
Leader. They demand we all STFU . *** What I can not understand is the ridiculous Cult of Obama who believes that not a negative or questioning word ...
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We’re A Cult, And You Are A…
haaretz.com - 11/7/2008
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haaretz.com —
A day after his historic election to become
the first black American president, Barack Obama stepped into
the role of president-elect yesterday, inviting Rahm Emanuel to join his administration as White House chief of staff, Democratic officials said. ...
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Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 11/12/2008
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During the presidential primary campaign season of 1999-2000,
the New York Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger (the junior
one), got up at a large banquet in New York City and took the opportunity of the public Q&A to demand to know when ...
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Nine years later the N.Y. Times still awaits its Bush ...
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... . The efficacy of the leak, which led to stories about Obama's lobbying for aid for automakers, isn't clear, writes Firedoglake's Emptywheel . Brooks, in his New York Times ...
White House School House Rock: Lack of Discipline is Spelled R-A-H-M
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... Dude! President Obama? Let me help you out here. It took five days--five days!!--for the extraordinary discipline of your campaign to go to shit after you picked Beltway leaker extraordinaire Rahm Emanuel to be your Chief of Staff. ...
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Obama Names Rahm Emanuel His Chief of Staff. So What Does It Mean?
themoderatevoice.com 11/14/2008 — Clintonite and Congressman Rahm Emanuel has accepted Obama’s offer to be his chief of staff.
Like David Corn and Ezra Klein , I’m ambivalent about it. On the one hand, Emanuel hasn’t exactly been an ally of the liberal-progressive ...
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openleft.com 11/7/2008 — I don't like Rahm Emanuel becoming Obama's chief of staff, but I also don't think it would have mattered if he chose someone else. If Obama wanted Rahm as Chief of Staff, but Rahm had declined or been denied the slot via outside pressure, then you can ...
Obama, Bush deny bailout bargaining —
CNN.com - Politics 11/11/2008
Both the White House and a senior aide to President-elect Obama on Tuesday emphatically denied there had been any attempt on the part of President Bush -- while meeting with Obama on Monday -- to link a federal bailout of the struggling auto industry ...
Obama aides play down tensions with Bush —
Reuters: Politics 11/11/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Aides to President-elect Barack Obama distanced themselves on Tuesday from reports that President George W. Bush had pressed Obama to back a free trade deal with Colombia in exchange for help for the struggling automobile ...
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