[lbo-talk] Obama picks Rahm Emanuel, free trade fanatic & welfare "reformer"

WD mister.wd at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 07:33:18 PST 2008


On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
> All this Emanuel chatter is silly. RE is not a policy guy. Somebody
> else will cook up policies, as they did with welfare deform. RE's job
> is to ramrod it, BAMN. That's what he does.

Maybe, but Emanuel's father thinks differently:

Nov 6, 2008 9:28 | Updated Nov 7, 2008 8:13 Emanuel to be Obama's chief of staff By AP AND JPOST.COM STAFF

[...] In an interview with Ma'ariv, Emanuel's father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son's appointment would be good for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House." [...] http://tinyurl.com/6j3bm6

Yuck, -WD



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