Wednesday, November 5, 2008

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Regarding uniting the country, Obama has chosen Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff. Case closed before Obama even starts.

Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel's success is his legendary intensity. There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. There's the story about how his right middle finger was blown off by a Syrian tank when he was in the Israeli army. And there's the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, 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. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."

Of the three stories, only the second is a myth -- Emanuel lost the finger to a meat slicer as a teenager and never served in the Israeli army. But it's a measure of his considerable reputation as the enforcer in Clinton's White House that so many people believe it to be true. You don't earn the nickname "Rahmbo" being timid.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8091986/the_enforcer/

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUT1WgHat6I

Jimi5150 said...

I said on my blog that not only did Obama buy this election, the press helped him all along the way. As far as fair and balanced (not to purposely use a FOX slogan) reporting is concerned, McCain never had a chance. And that's a shame. We'll find out soon enough how Obama decides to govern. But, should it be from the far left, and should that come as a surprise to people, while I'll hold Obama ultimately responsible, I also hold the media in part to blame.

Anonymous said...

I can't even watch the clip you have posted. MSNBC is not a news channel; its a liberal 24/7 network.
No offense to you at all, Mary. Your blog is great!
~jp

Anonymous said...

He didn't "buy the election". Those dollars were given to him by people who believed in him, believed in his message and believed in this country.

Anonymous said...

Obama, "I will change the United States and the World and give everybody hope. And, I might send you some free money."

Obama voter, "Wow, I'm sending him money!?!"

Makes no sense to me.

Mary said...

There is no question that Obama broke his promise on campaign financing.

It's one of many promises he's sure to break.

Actually, I'm more worried about him keeping some of his promises rather than breaking them.