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

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Fri Nov 7 08:36:07 PST 2008


The generally annoying M.J. Rosenberg says RE is not a Likudnik. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/06/rahm_emanuel_is_no_likudnik/

I suspect RE's pop knows as much about he does as my mother knows about what I do, which is to say Zilch.

By the way, it is possible to harbor the notion that a just peace would be good for Israel's security, and the current trend is not.

WD wrote:
> 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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