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

[WD]

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