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abcnews.go.com - 11/7/2008

Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal

— abcnews.go.com — President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot "red flags," ... (more) Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal

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marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/6/2008

Why Rahm: A Message To -- And From -- The Center

— marcambinder.theatlantic.com — Why Rahm, really? Advisers say that Obama has sent a not-so-subtle message to Congress: President-Elect Obama will not cede much agenda-setting ground to liberals. While outside Democrats are interpreting Emanuel's selection as an institutional ... (more) Why Rahm: A Message To -- And From -- The Center

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Barack Obama

Rahm Emanuel

Nancy Pelosi

Joe Biden

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hotair.com - 11/7/2008

Emanuel tied to Freddie Mac collapse

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The Blog Formerly Known As Dean's World — ... NOT “center-left”. The netroots played a major role in Obama’s victory but in another sense, they were also irrelevant, since Obama created his online base virtually from scratch (the netroots are, however, much more directly responsible for the Congressional downballot successes). So, expectations of a “progressive” agenda are probably going to be met with disappointment, as Obama’s instincts are soldily centrist. The netroots know it too - look at this by Bowers at OpenLeft where he details all the ways in which Rahm fails to live up to ...

In transition
The Sideshow — Rahm Emanuel is not popular at Open Left, and they have a lot of good reasons why. Like his claim that a guy who ran on a populist message was elected because he supported things like "more federal incentives for research, tougher border security, flexibility on skilled-worker visas". Yeah, right, that's what people were eager to vote for in this election - especially "flexibility on skilled-worker visas", which is another way of saying "giving jobs to foreigners that could have been given to skilled American workers." And we need that, because foreigners are at the mercy of their bosses, in no position to complain, ...

My Likes and Dislikes On Obama's Personnel Moves
Open Left - Front Page — Now that I have clarified why we, or at least I, have focused on personnel instead of policy here at Open Left, let me clarify where I stand on Obama's senior personnel moves during the transition. Although I have been stereotyped by both the establishment media and by many blog commenters as a simplistic one-note progressive who supposedly dislikes everything Obama has done during the transition, my writing shows that this simply is not the case. In the extended entry, using my past writing on the subject, I place my opinion on all major Democratic personnel moves since November 4th into for categories: what I am excited about, what ...