suntimes.com - 10/30/2008
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Barack Obama eyes Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff WASHINGTON Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said Thursday as the marathon presidential race entered its final, frenzied stretch with a Democratic ...
Rahm Emanuel Named or Not Named Obama Chief of Staff
redstate.com 11/6/2008 — Meet The "New Politics," Same As The Old Politics
The first major personnel announcement of the new Obama
Administration is out, and the word is that
Congressman Rahm Emanuel has been offered the post of Obama's chief
of staff . The ...
Obama to Name Napolitano, Peña, Daley to Transition Team
blogs.abcnews.com 11/5/2008 — In addition to the three people who will be running President-elect Barack Obama's transition team -- former White House chief of staff John Podesta, Obama family friend/businesswoman Valier Jarrett, and Obama campaign chief of staff Pete Rouse, as ...
Rahm For Chief Of Staff? Not Just Yet...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 10/31/2008 — The AP's David Espo apparently has a scoop : Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel
about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said
Thursday, looking ahead as the marathon presidential race entered ...
Rahm Emanuel: Obama's chief of staff?
swamppolitics.com 10/31/2008 — by Christi Parsons
Is Rep. Rahm Emanuel being courted to run the White House for Barack Obama? Or is that story just part of a big (not to mention premature) D.C. guessing game?
Aides and advisors to Obama and Emanuel -- fellow Democratic ...
What To Expect From The Obama Transition
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 11/5/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama is NOT expected to name key posts BEFORE next week...even though there's been speculation that he'd name his Treasury secretary today.... the ONE exception might be his chief of staff. (Rep. Rahm Emanuel has ...
Emanuel
corner.nationalreview.com 11/5/2008 — Obama's apparent selection of Rahm Emanuel for White House chief of staff is an extremely disconcerting (if not wholly surprising) first indication on the "which Obama will we get" question. It suggests both that he wants to be ruthless and partisan ...
Jonathan Garthwaite: Re: Rahm
townhall.com 11/5/2008 — The pick of Rahm Emanuel as Obama's Chief of Staff is a signal that Obama's "post-partisan" image is just that -- image.Rahm is a political operative turned congressman turned mastermind of the current Pelosi...
Emanuel Offered Chief of Staff Job
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 11/5/2008 — Rahm Emanuel has told associates that he was leaning toward stepping down from his Congressional leadership position to join Barack Obama's team.
Report: Emanuel Offered Chief of Staff —
Drudge Retort
Democratic officials say Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel has been offered the job of chief of staff in the administration of President-elect Barack Obama. Emanuel is a a former aide and policy advisor in President Clinton's White House.
Emanuel Offered Chief of Staff Spot —
Politics Daily
President-elect Obama (hey, I like the sound of that!) is laying low for a few days but he has made one key decision: to offer the job of his chief of staff to Rahm Emanuel . A congressman from Obama's home state of Illinois and the number three Democrat in the House, Emanuel hasn't officially ...
Obama Offers Rahm Chief-of-Staff Position —
Swampland
ABC reports that Obama has asked Rahm Emanuel to be his chief-of-staff. No word if Emanuel will accept. As I type this I'm in a bus heading for Obama's home where we are told he'll spend the morning taking his girls to school and running errands. And so begins the first day of in the life of ...
Rahm Emanuel Emerges as a Front-runner for Obama Chief of Staff Spot —
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By Shailagh Murray CHICAGO -- Even before returns rolled in, speculation began mounting that Rahm Emanuel might be selected as White House chief of staff, should Sen. Barack Obama be elected president. The pugnacious Illinois congressman isn't talking, but Obama aides and allies said they were ...
Rahm Emanuel Offered Chief of Staff —
Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
First
Read :
Three House Democratic sources confirmed Rep. Rahm Emanuel has been offered
a Chief of Staff job with an Obama White House and is currently "agonizing"
over whether to take the job.
"The enforcer" to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Could be.
Emanuel as Chief of Staff? —
TalkLeft
Is it true that Barack Obama might want Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff ? "[O]fficials" told reporters today that Obama's campaign approached Emanuel. Who are these officials? They are "Democrats who ... spoke on condition of anonymity" because "they were not authorized to be quoted by ...
Oh, The Irony —
Daily Kos
Here's Karl Rove, on the speculation that Rahm Emanuel would be Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Well, the Chief of Staff, there is no corporate role, but in the Chief of Staff in the White House is an honest broker. When the leader of the opposition Party in the House or Senate calls up ...
POLITICS: Emanuel In Or Not In As Chief of Staff —
Baseball Crank
The first major personnel announcement of the new Obama Administration is out, and the word is that Congressman Rahm Emanuel has been offered the post of Obama's chief of staff . The announcement didn't exactly go off smoothly, as this NBC report shows :
From NBC's Andrea Mitchell A senior ...
MSNBC: Rahm Emanuel Accepts Chief of Staff Offer —
PoliGazette
Via MSNBC comes the news that Rahm Emanuel has accepted Barack Obama’s offer to become his Chief of Staff.
Emanuel is a highly partisan and ideological Democrat , who has a long record of bullying opponents into submission, and throwing swear words around whenever agitated (which ...
Rahm Emanuel as WH Chief of Staff. Whaddya think? —
Daily Kos
By now you've all heard the rumors, and the rumors have turned into solid news reports: Rahm Emanuel has been offered the job of White House Chief of Staff. There are a couple different ways to evaluate this, of course. Rahm gets mixed reviews around here, to put it mildly, on his record as a ...
Chief of Staff —
TalkLeft
MSNBC is reporting that Rep. Rahm Emanuel has agreed to act as Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Some see Emanuel as one of "the greedy corporate types who have ruined our economy, if not the country" while others complain that Emanuel is an "abrasive, vindictive and partisan Democratic ...
Rahm as Chief of Staff? See Ya, Bipartisanship… —
Firedoglake
The talking heads on Morning Joe are consumed with the rumor that Rahm Emanuel will be named Chief of Staff .
I wrote the other day that "Rahm doesn't do bipartisan," and Scarborough resoundingly echoed that sentiment. He said that appointing Rahm as COS would be like Bush ...
Rahm Emanuel Offered Chief of Staff Position —
Crooks and Liars
Political Punch :
ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.
Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer. The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent veteran of the ...
So Funny. —
INSTAPUTZ
Because he's such a magnanimous wingnut, Yuval Levin is offering advice to President-Elect Obama on how to pick a chief-of-staff : The White House chief of staff is not a chief strategist or a chief advocate. He is a manager of people and of process. Above all else, he sets the tone internally, ...
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