haaretz.com - 11/7/2008
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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. Emanuel, a former Bill Clinton adviser, is ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/12/2008
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
Democrats who survived the transition from George H.W.
Bush to William Jefferson Clinton are a bit in...
awe these days of what Barack Obama is doing and how he is doing it. Of the Clinton transition, one very senior and longtime Clinton adviser said: ...
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The Biggest Lesson Obama Learned From The Clinton Transition
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/14/2008
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"On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama and Senator John
McCain will meet in Chicago at transition headquarters," Obama...
Transition spox Stephanie Cutter just announced. "It's well known that they share an important belief that Americans want and ...
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Obama and McCain to Meet in Chicago Monday
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Will the Arab World Take Issue With Rahm's Israeli Roots and Pro-Israel Views?
Political Punch —
... Will the Arab World Take Issue With Rahm's Israeli Roots and Pro-Israel Views? November 06, 2008 7:18 PM Israeli newspapers are already rejoicing about President-elect Obama's selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., to be his White House chief of staff. As the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz notes , Emanuel "is the son of a Jerusalem-born pediatrician who was a member of the Irgun (Etzel or IZL), a militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948." Emanuel's father told the newspaper that his son was named after a fallen combatant named Rahamim. In the Israel ...
MIDDLE EAST: You Don't Pick Your Parents Edition
Taylor Marsh —
... Ma’ariv is a newspaper in Tel Aviv, offered only in Hebrew on the web.
Not exactly helpful, whether it was meant as harshly as it sounds or not, especially if the Obama administration hopes to go places the current occupant of the White House never cared to tread.
As Haaretz reported,
Benjamin Emanuel was once a member of Irgun,
short for "National Military Organization in the Land of Israel,"
which operated between 1931 and 1948. Shorter: militantly Zionist. That’s what makes the elder Emanuel’s words so biting. ...
Israelis never thought much of Rahm Emanuel
Israel Matzav —
... .' When Emanuel was tapped to be Obama’s chief of staff, a headline in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz kvelled “Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff,” while the ...
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The Chicago resident and close ally of the president-elect is currently the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. Democrats applaud the choice, but some Republicans worry that the tough political operative might be too partisan for the job.
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