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baseballcrank.com - 11/11/2008
POLITICS: Where His Bread Is Buttered
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Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's first and most important staff hire as Chief of Staff: on the wrong side of the credit crisis , but the right side for his own pocketbook. Shocking, I know. The good news about making his first pick a hyper-partisan Chicago pol with a scandalous financial past is ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/12/2008
The Biggest Lesson Obama Learned From The Clinton Transition
— 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: ... (more) The Biggest Lesson Obama Learned From The Clinton Transition

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Rahm Emanuel Facts
rahmfacts.com - 11/10/2008
Rahm Emanuel Facts
— rahmfacts.com — Rahm's Blue (Aba Dee Aba Die) RAHM EMANUEL HATES ARBY'S» Rahm Emanuel Facts are as awesome as... Chuck Norris Facts — except 100% true! | Get the facts! | Thoughts? Rants? Facts? Site Meter (more) Rahm Emanuel Facts

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Noted Democratic Shill Begs Nutroots Not To Viciously Attack Emanuel For Being Too Jewish
mererhetoric.com - 11/9/2008
Noted Democratic Shill Begs Nutroots Not To Viciously Attack Emanuel For Being Too Jewish
— mererhetoric.com — Part Of The Team Pro-Carter shill MJ Rosenberg is asking the far left to eschew anti-Semitic attacks... on Emanuel. Not because anti-Semitic attacks are wrong per se - what would the contemporary DNC ever do? More because Emanuel is apparently one of ... (more) Noted Democratic Shill Begs Nutroots Not To Viciously ...

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Mayor Daley's Man
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Last week we saw the first sign of these dynamics playing out in Obama's first staff hire, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a Chicago pol and former "senior adviser and chief fundraiser" for Mayor Daley who made hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting on Freddie Mac's board during a time when the board was criticized by the SEC for failing to stop the company's accounting irregularities and shady campaign donations. * ...

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