Soooooo. First order of business, buy a puppy for the girls. Second, select a giant asshole to be my chief of staff.
What can you say about the conniving little gnome that is Rahm Emanuel that hasn't already been said?
From the Telegraph:
One story, more than any other, sums up the intensity, loyalty and, at times, downright nastiness upon which Mr Emanuel's reputation is built.
At a dinner to celebrate President Clinton's first election victory, Mr Emanuel began to name those who he believed had earned his enmity. As he listed the names of those he saw as traitors, he grabbed a steak knife, stood up and began plunging the knife into the table and shouting "Dead! Dead! Dead!" after each name.
"When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one witness recalled. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."
Nor was this an isolated incident – one pollster who fell out with Mr Emanuel received a rotting fish in the post as a warning not to cross him again.
Here's another story... In 1999 a large news organization assigned one of its reporters to follow up on rumors that one of the lawyers defending President Clinton during the impeachment trial was also at that very time having an affair with one of Clinton's closest and very married advisers. It would have been a horrible headline. Adulterer-in-chief defended by adultering adulterers. But the reporter found the request repellent and refused. Still, that did not keep Rahm Emanu-hole, who had heard about the request, from cornering the reporter... and threatening that the reporter would be "very sorry" if the story was pursued.
Ok Obama. So you're good cop - bad copping it. Whatever. But hopefully you will balance the douche-baggery that is already in your inner circle with some genuinely good, straight forward, civil, and righteous people.
One story, more than any other, sums up the intensity, loyalty and, at times, downright nastiness upon which Mr Emanuel's reputation is built.
At a dinner to celebrate President Clinton's first election victory, Mr Emanuel began to name those who he believed had earned his enmity. As he listed the names of those he saw as traitors, he grabbed a steak knife, stood up and began plunging the knife into the table and shouting "Dead! Dead! Dead!" after each name.
"When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one witness recalled. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."
Nor was this an isolated incident – one pollster who fell out with Mr Emanuel received a rotting fish in the post as a warning not to cross him again.
Here's another story... In 1999 a large news organization assigned one of its reporters to follow up on rumors that one of the lawyers defending President Clinton during the impeachment trial was also at that very time having an affair with one of Clinton's closest and very married advisers. It would have been a horrible headline. Adulterer-in-chief defended by adultering adulterers. But the reporter found the request repellent and refused. Still, that did not keep Rahm Emanu-hole, who had heard about the request, from cornering the reporter... and threatening that the reporter would be "very sorry" if the story was pursued.
Ok Obama. So you're good cop - bad copping it. Whatever. But hopefully you will balance the douche-baggery that is already in your inner circle with some genuinely good, straight forward, civil, and righteous people.
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