Rahm Emmanuel signs on as President Elect Obama's White House Chief of Staff. Big league move. Brick by brick, the pieces of a successful presidency are being laid. Fun to watch.
From Rahm Emmanuel's Wikipedia page:
One of his proudest moments during the Clinton administration "was an event that touched his political sensibilities and his personal ties to Israel: the 1993 Rose Garden signing ceremony after the Oslo Accords between Israel and Palestine. Emanuel directed the details of the ceremony, down to the choreography of the famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat."[16]
At this point of his political career he was known for his intensity. Notably, he reportedly told British Prime Minister Tony Blair, prior to Blair appearing in public with Clinton for the first time after the Lewinsky scandal, "This is important. Don't fuck it up."[17] Emanuel is said to have "mailed a rotting fish to a former coworker after the two parted ways."[16] On the night after the 1996 election, "Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting 'Dead! ... Dead! ... Dead!' and plunging the knife into the table after every name."[2] His "take-no-prisoners attitude" earned him the nickname "Rahm-bo".[16]
Do you think that the Obama administration wants to get stuff done? I do.update: I am possibly the last person on earth to know that Rahm Emmanuel was the model for Josh on West Wing. I was never a devotee but I'm planning on becoming one.
Erm, so he's a 'with us' or 'against us' kind of guy? Plus ça change we can believe in, then!
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