Rahm Emanuel studied dance in Westchester
Even if Robert Kennedy Jr. doesn’t join Barack Obama’s presidential cabinet, one other person with Westchester connections will.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., has been tapped to be president-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff. To most, Emanuel is known for his fierce mouth, with countless stories about shouting down several fellow politicians.
But to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, Emanuel is known as the 1981 alum who studied dance there.
Yep, dance.
Emanuel was a ballet dancer as a child and turned down an invitation to join the Joffrey Ballet to study dance at Sarah Lawrence.
“It was a great liberal-arts school, and there were four women for every guy,†Emanuel told the Rolling Stone in 2005. “I was eighteen, so I’m allowed to think like that.â€
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RHAM IS KNOWN BY HIS NICKNAME…RHAMBO..HE IS A TAKE
NO PRISONERS SON OF AN ISRAELI…TWO POINTS
ANY NOTION THAT BARACK IS ANTI ISRAELI IS OUT THE
WINDOW WITH THE PICK OF EMMANUEL…( MY DADS FIRST NAME)
AND ANY NOTION THAT BARACK WILL BE A PUSHOVER IS
ALSO DISPELLED
fox news reports that is FOX news that the mccain staffers
tell them that Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.she thought it was a country…ok..
GOT IT..SHE WAS A VERY BAD CHOICE
CEOs and Naval Captains know well to have a nasty executive officer at their side. While the captain smiles and tells everyone on board what a wonderful job they are doing, the XO sharpens his knife and stares at you like you just urinated in the ship’s water fountain. The captain still runs the ship and the XO’s opinion on anything, or chief of staff’s (in this case) opinion on anything substantial, other than keeping the troops in line, is totally meaningless and uninteresting to the boss. He won’t often, if at all, be asked his opinion, and if he readily submits those opinions too regularly, he’ll be history.
Re: Palin – All the world knows where Africa is and that it is a continent. Everyone at the United Nations knows this. Armed with this great knowledge, all are incapable, feckless, and moribund in stopping the ongoing horrific violence and genocide occurring daily within this continent. My guess is that Ms. Palen, for one, would try to find a way.
Here is what else she didn’t know according to Mccain
staffers..she didn’t know who the parties to NAFTA
were..she could not name the countries in North
AMerica..this was a choice to please the pro
life sector of the party..they clearly put their
narrow interests first and the country second..and
that goes for limbough, hannity and sliwa …all
of whom should be drummed out of town on a rail
and at a local level, greg ball, who has built his political career on an extremist pro-life position and illegal immigration rhetoric (daresay race-baiting), needs to drummed out of town on a rail.
silver didn’t drop a dime into the race against ball. why?
because he knows that it’s good for the democrats to have this nut-job speaking on behalf of the gop. so while local republicans grow ignorant and support and embrace the egotistical mr. ball, they do so at their own peril. greg ball does not support the republican party, he never has and he would never allow anything to stand in the way of his own personal ambition.
time for him to be drummed out to a place called irrelevance, which is really where he belongs. he will be able to hold onto that assembly seat for as long as he likes but he will never go anywhere else. never. he may run for higher office but he will most certainly lose.
Consultant…You are BORING. And if you were honest, which you are not when it comes to Palin, you would say that the McCain staff ran a lousy campaign and a couple of them are trying to blame Sarah Palin to cover their own butts. They should blame themselves. I don’t think most people believe half of that crap being leaked anonymously about Palin. It’s sour grapes and “CYA” by a couple of McCain staffers.
But it works with your own agenda, so you just repeat it.
we disagree Jiminy…in fact I did blame the McCain
campaign staff…because they forced her on him..she
was however a terrible candidate and the exit polls
back it up completley. I have no idea why you are so
enamored with Palin…59% of the voters thought
she was unqualified and 1/3rd of those sais
they based their choice for president on that
fact…pretty damning…don’t you think?
Charles Krauthammers post mortem:
Palin was a mistake (“near suicidal,” I wrote on the day of her selection) because she completely undercut McCain’s principal case against Obama: his inexperience and unreadiness to lead. And her nomination not only intellectually undermined the readiness argument. It changed the election dynamic by shifting attention, for days on end, to Palin’s preparedness, fitness and experience—and away from Obama’s.
McCain thought he could steal from Obama the “change” issue by running a Two Mavericks campaign. A fool’s errand from the very beginning. It defied logic for the incumbent party candidate to try to take “change” away from the opposition. Election Day exit polls bore that out with a vengeance. Voters for whom change was the most important issue went 89-to-9 for Obama.
you can’t get a more conservative journalis that him
Sarah Palin was the worst mistake as a vice-presidential choice since Tom Eagleton.
Gov. Palin made Dan Quayle look like a phi beta kappa. That scary, vindictive personality. The >100 IQ. McCain blew it when he chose her.
Let her go home to Alaska, and stay there.
She embarrasses me as a Republican.
the radio talk show bloviators are all over the emmanuel
choice..but here is what Lindsay Graham a sitting
conservative republican from NC and a fierce supporter
of Mccain had to say:
Republican Lindsey Graham sided with Dodd and called Emanuel a “wise choice.”
“Rahm knows Capitol Hill and has great political skills. He can be a tough partisan but also understands the need to work together. He is well-suited for the position of White House chief of staff,” the South Carolina senator said.
Graham said he and Emanuel worked together during the presidential debate negotiations, and “when we hit a rough spot, he always looked for a path forward.”
you would think that graham knows a lot more
than limbough and hannity wouldn’t you?
Lindsay Graham is actually from South Carolina and generally is considered reasonably moderate-to-liberal by South Carolina Republican standards. Emanuel is a friend of his. John Boehner had a different take on the matter. In general, Republican Congressman who Emanuel worked hard to defeat in 2006 are probably going to feel some bitterness towards him.
Anyone who has glanced at the book, “The Thumpin’: How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution” knows that Emanuel is a fairly suave but also ruthless operative. The vitriol against Emanuel is not only on the right but on the left as well. Many of those at blogs such as the dailykos and aligned with Howard Dean did not appreciate dealing with Emanuel in 2006. His good friend, Paul Begala, said that Emanuel’s style was a, “cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache.”
There is nothing wrong per se with picking him as Chief of Staff and President-Elect Obama can choose whoever he wants but it goes against Obama’s “uniter” message. I am a little surprised that the Consultant who has previously railed against “Rovian” tactics defends Emanuel whose reputation far excedes Roves.
Anyway, time for me to stop posting and actually get work done.
Consultant..It’s not that I was so enamored of the Palin choice. It’s that I understood why McCain made it. The base was very cool to McCain for a lot of reasons, and Palin got the base on board, which was important.
I happen to agree with Krauthammer that Palin took away the very valid “inexperienced” argument McCain had against Obama —although Palin was not the top of the ticket, and Obama was. Still, it undermined McCain’s point.
I would have favored Romney or even Ridge for VP, and said so on this blog. But after Palin was chosen, I saw no reason to dump on her. Now, I think some McCain staffers are trying to cover their butts. McCain had a high hill to climb, regardless, but his campaign was not run very well in some key ways. Despite all that was against him, inclding some of his own actions, he got a lot of votes.
yes he did…and I agree his staffers are attempting
to blame the person they themselves picked …and
who they continued to defend..so who really gets
the blame..the staffers of course
“Rahm knows Capitol Hill and has great political skills. He can be a tough partisan but also understands the need to work together.”
On a day-to-day basis, the dems are not going to be reaching across the table to work with the republicans-they never have. But they will expect the republicans to reach across the table and help promote the Democratic party’s goals. And, unless the Republicans have grown a spine this past week, they will as usual fall for it.
A new, post-election Rasmussen poll taken of Republicans shows that 91 percent of them view Sarah Palin favorably—65 percent actually view her “very favorably.” Only 8 percent view her unfavorably.
69 percent say she helped the ticket, and 20 percent say she hurt the ticket. Six percent say she had no impact, and five percent are undecided.
Of further interest…64 percent named her as the top choice for 2012 —followed by Huckabee with 12 percent and Romney with 11 percent. Jindal, Crist and Pawlenty polled in low single digits. Yes, that’s a long way off, but this current picture per Rasmussen still is interesting.
I think Sarah Palin also scares the daylights out of certain establishment Republicans. I think that’s another reason for the anonymous, and largely false, back-biting from a few McCain staff members.
Her numbers among those who identify themselves as “republican” is not the issue..now that republicans
represent about 32% of those willing to self identify
the object is to be viewed favorably by independents
and that would be people like me…
Here is what you left off Jiminy form the Rasmussen poll:
The key for the 44-year-old Palin will be whether she can broaden her base of support. An Election Day survey found that 81% of Democrats and, more importantly, 57% of unaffiliated voters had an unfavorable view of her.
lets see 57% of 44 is more than 61% of 32..so Palin starts
off down….then if we add in the inability to attract
ANY DEMOCRATS…she is a loser big time
Consultant…I was summarizing the numbers from Republicans, not trying to write up the entire poll. I also said 2012 is a long way off, which means things can and probably will change. But I maintain that some establishment Republicans, including you, who even said you voted for Obama, are scared silly of Palin and the conservative base of the party.
And I say that as someone who wanted to see Romney or Ridge get the VP designation.
But “Democrat Lite” ain’t gonna win a thing. What did kissing up to Dems and the media get McCain? Nothing. Hell, even after McCain held hands with Teddy Kennedy on immigration, many more Hispanics voted for Obama than for him. He did much worse with Hispanics than Bush did. Voters need to see a clear distinction —not “Democrat Lite.”
Should the conservative base make some adjustments? Probably, but not to the point some may think it should.
The President’s got himself a dancer from Sarah Lawrence who wanders around with a smirk on his face and a catty attitude and tongue. Can’t wait for him to say to the Secretary of Defense: “Where on earth did you get that tie?” and “The President will see you now, bitch!”
Ian: “A cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache.” That’s classic.