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Rahm Emanuel as Prime Minister

Thomas F. Roeser 22 November 2008 18 Comments

While pundits speculate the identity of the heaviest hitter Barack Obama will name to his administration, they should not waste their time. Barring Paul Volcker (if he’s appointed treasury secretary), he’s already been named…and he’s not in the cabinet. And while he lasts (which may not be long), Rahm Emanuel, 49, of Chicago will be the virtual prime minister of this government. A NewYork Times photo of Obama’s top advisers…including the veteran Paul Volcker…showed Emanuel standing in the front row with hands on hips, a picture of saucy authority. Almost as if to say “these are my guys!”

He’ll be prime minister until he either quits, is fired or whacked on the head with a potted plant hurled by an angry fellow staffer. Assuredly, there’ll be controversy involved. I’ve written about him before but never told the story completely…as one who knew well the man known in Washington as “Rahmbo the Magnificent” in early formative years (he went to my Quaker Oats retirement party but we don’t talk now because of the retribution he tried to wreak on the late Henry Hyde in vengeance for Hyde’s bringing out of House Judiciary a bill of impeachment against Bill Clinton),

Chiefs of staff to presidents come in two categories. They are either paper shufflers or prime ministers. All of George W. Bush’s hires from Andrew Card his first to the current faceless professional Josh Bolten were paper shufflers, overshadowed by powerful cabinet forces and political guru Karl Rove. All of Bill Clinton’s top staffers…except Emanuel… were passive. Emanuel’s personality is a forceful prime minister type but is so terribly abrasive and profane he may well not survive beyond a few months unless there is a dramatic change in personality. He was, in fact, demoted as Bill Clinton’s political director to a lesser role because Hillary Clinton couldn’t abide him. Later, in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Clinton needed him and moved him upward again where he took over the p.r. strategy to defend his boss from impeachment (which didn’t work) and then from Senate conviction (which did).

How did Emanuel land his job in the White House with Clinton? Fresh from being what he himself called “the top raiser of Jewish money” in Chicago for Mayor Richard M. Daley, he started on the 1992 campaign trail as a fund-raiser beginning with the New Hampshire primary. But soon he would become far more than a chaser after rich contributors. Then the most serious rival to Clinton was Paul Tsongas, the ex-Massachusetts senator. Knowing that Clinton would face a serious challenge due to his proclivity for womanizing, Emanuel did two thing: he spread the word that Tsongas’ earlier serious bout with cancer was coming back (true: it happened) and convinced the Clinton team they should raise tons of money up front for use in a crisis which he knew was coming from Clinton’s womanizing and evasion of the draft. They agreed.

The crisis came with the disclosure during that New Hampshire primary of Clinton’s relationship with Gennifer Flowers and the controversy over his efforts to evade the draft in the Vietnam war. Tsongas had to withdraw because of lack of funds but thanks to Emanuel-raised money which enabled them to top Al Gore’s totals,, Clinton survived. That guaranteed Emanuel a top berth in the future Clinton White House…as political director and fund raiser.

Where will Emanuel’s influence be largely brought to bear for Obama? On a wide variety of fronts. Expect that the interest of the Democratic party will be foremost, followed-and only then-by the well-being of Israel. The Democratic party is foremost with Rahm. He has told me, “with me the patriotism for America is tied indissolubly with the Democratic party.” And Israel? He said: “Israel next-but you get what I mean? The Democratic party is tied in my mind to the United States. And then Israel.” But that doesn’t mean Emanuel would be as anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian as you would expect. He thinks his father is an old hat Israeli revolutionary.

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Tom Roeser is the Chairman of the Chicago Daily Observer Editorial Board

18 Comments »

  • MItch Robinson (author) said:

    Big surprise. The beast and it’s little horn will rule for an hour.

    Yahweh bless zionists, their minion secret societies, and all who serve their interests,

    In Yeshua, Jesus Christ,

    Mitch

  • Ignotz Krapotkin (author) said:

    My, my, my. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Can you believe that?

  • N J Pinney (author) said:

    The Democratic Party and the US first, then Israel? That’s for public consumption, with someone like Rhambo it’s most likely the reverse of that. Why is Israel in this equation at all? Israel has caused our country unending trouble since its inception in ‘48, and now especially if you can accept that 911 was a false flag put up by the MOSSAD. Lets damn well get the zionists out of control of our country. Re Obama’s Change that he was touting? You have to say the guy was a liar then and is now, (nothing new with politicians of the gutter variety.) This is Bushism/Clintonism with a new face.

  • captain america (author) said:

    america first!

  • The Avenger (author) said:

    America was a beautiful country. And rich too. But these parasites sucked its blood, and destroyed her beauty..

  • Draconius Horribilus (author) said:

    So much for change we can believe in! “For they were all of them deceived…”.

  • Eyes Wide Open (author) said:

    What a great insightful article. I know you know what you are talking about and everyone who knew this character from the past knows it too. Let’s hope your prediction of a short reign is accurate. But then, if it is, I hope a “crisis” isn’t created to resurrect this type. Thanx for telling the truth, a dangerous thing to do in these times.

  • rich (author) said:

    God hates abortion, and we have an abortion loving administration !!!

    http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=goldieshome&view=videos

    goldieshouse.piczo.com

  • Loch Ness (author) said:

    “Meet the New Boss, Same As The Old Boss… We Won’t Be fooled Again!”

    (But we were!)

    “Paranoia strikes deep

    Into Your life it will creep

    It starts when you’re always afraid

    Step outta line

    The Man come

    And take you away-

    You better stop hey, what’s that sound-

    Everybody look what’s goin’ down…

  • Danzo (author) said:

    I agree with the general concensus.The rabbit hole goes so very deep. The sad thing is that most Americans don’t even want to look into it, much less travel down and do some researh, open their eyes. It’s going to take some serious serious s— to start the revolution, in the meantime, let’s try to wake up our sheeple citizens, ring that bell baby !!!

  • Jeanette (author) said:

    Can someone please explain to me how it is that the prez’s butler/social secretary( chief of staff) has ANY control over ANY part of setting official policy?!! What have I missed? This horse’s ass will MAYBE(see Phil Berg’s website obamacrimes.com)be an UNELECTED servant in the WH. That’s it. We have him DICTATING that we WILL be roped into MANDATORY national service, MANDATORY enviro-miltias of little snots snooping into all aspects of our private live, etc. By what right does a potential servant hold such sway over the friggin’ government of this country?????? Anyone?

  • Bill Mitchell (author) said:

    Emanuel is far worse than you let on, or could as hometown press and needing sponsors and safe passage in the murder capital of America when taking on the Daily dynastic machine and the Mossad’s most valuable agent inside the US government, and there are many.

    Remember he stopped the party from funding anti-war democrats and is a hawk/war-monger/imperialist/Zionist, or succinctly; he is a war criminal like Senator Obama in advocating and voting funds of the unconstitutional wars of aggression underway and genocide being supported in silence, as the Israelis starve and murder Palestinians with impunity as do US troops around the world, overtly and covertly. — Bill Mitchell

  • robert padgett (author) said:

    America is over, with no real industrys,a worthless,currency backed with nothing. We finally are getting rid of socio path Beelzebush.A liar,murderer, and thief. Denial will just make harder,They out congress has spit on the constitution media lies,or does not give real news. No free speech a real police state.America is OVER!

  • robert padgett (author) said:

    America is over, with no real industrys,a worthless,currency backed with nothing. We finally are getting rid of socio path Beelzebush.A liar,murderer, and thief. Denial will just make harder,They our congress has spit on the constitution media lies,or does not give real news. No free speech a real police state.America is OVER!

  • Gin789 (author) said:

    Let us all hope and pray that this piece of trash never makes it to the White House. Allen Keyes surely has standing and should be able to stop him. I just know in my heart that this evil man is not a natural born citizen all we have to do is prove it.

  • Antifraud (author) said:

    See ObamaCrimes.com to support Phillip Berg’s appeal to the Supreme Court requiring Obama to produce proof of citizenship, then these Obama appointments will not matter. Berg claims that he can prove that Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States.

  • Joe Shucks (author) said:

    This ballerina spun around and became Daley’s top fund raiser of Jewish money, then spun again and became a top Clinton fund raiser of Jewish money, then spun around again and became a multi-millionaire investment banker despite no experience, then spun around and became and instantly joined House leadership upon his election, and now he’s Chief of Staff.

    Those are some sweet dance moves. Who’s pulling this puppet’s strings?

  • Robert Hun (author) said:

    This Rahmbo is a puppet of Rotschilds, his purpose in government is to orientate the other puppet, Obama, in what their master wants him to do. I feel sorry for America, being lead to the abyss by those vampires, hope that sheeple wake up before too late.

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