Rahm Emanuel's father was a terrorist, and apparently this is no problem?

Its Evolution Baby

The fact that Dick Morris and Sean Hannity have freaked out over this choice is all I need to know that I like it.

fuck

Its Evolution Baby wrote:

The fact that Dick Morris and Sean Hannity have freaked out over this choice is all I need to know that I like it.

They freaked out because he's a liberal, not because he's pro-Israel.

In other news,

"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." The Ma'ariv article also quoted Dr. Emanuel as saying that his son spends most summers visiting in Tel Aviv, and that he speaks Hebrew, but not fluently."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910047157&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Dick Morris on Rahm Emanuel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzFLmIUVCk8


"bill Clinton's former adviser turned john mcmadman McCain supporter dick morris was on a segment of the 06 November 2008 broadcast of the faux news hannity & colmes show.

mr. morris spoke candidly about what a disgusting person barack obama's new white house chief of staff rahm emanuel is.

mr. morris maintains that emanuel cannot be trusted and that he works only for himself - "rahm is for rahm." mr. morris says that bill Clinton never trusted emanuel.

mr. morris says obama "is making a huge mistake in picking this guy."
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The Israeli Who Will Run the Obama White House
Written by Christopher Bollyn
Thursday, 06 November 2008

"Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff" is the headline of a November 6 article in Ha'aretz, the Israeli newspaper. The Israeli editors at Ha'aretz proudly proclaim that Obama's first pick was "Israeli Rahm Emanuel" to run the next administration. Americans should be aware that Obama's chief of staff will be an Israeli, with terrorist roots and a clear loyalty to the state of Israel."

jimed14

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Dick Morris on Rahm Emanuel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzFLmIUVCk8


"bill Clinton's former adviser turned john mcmadman McCain supporter dick morris was on a segment of the 06 November 2008 broadcast of the faux news hannity & colmes show.

mr. morris spoke candidly about what a disgusting person barack obama's new white house chief of staff rahm emanuel is.

mr. morris maintains that emanuel cannot be trusted and that he works only for himself - "rahm is for rahm." mr. morris says that bill Clinton never trusted emanuel.

mr. morris says obama "is making a huge mistake in picking this guy."
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The Israeli Who Will Run the Obama White House
Written by Christopher Bollyn
Thursday, 06 November 2008

"Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff" is the headline of a November 6 article in Ha'aretz, the Israeli newspaper. The Israeli editors at Ha'aretz proudly proclaim that Obama's first pick was "Israeli Rahm Emanuel" to run the next administration. Americans should be aware that Obama's chief of staff will be an Israeli, with terrorist roots and a clear loyalty to the state of Israel."

"now, now now ... in Dick Morris' defense .... he is a lying sack of shit."

(start at the 2:45 mark .. or watch the whole thing)

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card


Now, on a serious note, I've been watching Dick Morris on Fox for the past few months, the guy is an idiot ... in that very same interview Roland posted, go to the 7 minute mark, on Hannity and Colmes, he SERIOUSLY tried to pass the notion that the week before the election, the market surged as people thought McCain was going to win, (name one pollster that suggested McCain was closing the gap or that didn't have an over 300 electoral count for Obama), then it tanks Wednesday and Thursday because of Obama winning ... COMPLETELY leaving out the fact news of horrible retail sales, auto makers, and 200k job losses etc that were announced.

Today the Market went up 250 points ... what now ... DICK!

He's a fucking propogandist moron. And of course, a frequent Fox News contributor.

He and Hannity go off on the fairness doctrine, how talk radio is going to be stifled ... Obama has said over and over he is against the Fairness Doctrine ... GIVE ... IT ... UP ... fucking scare tactics.


People need to settle down and give this, oh ... a WEEK and we'll see who the other appointees are ...

Its Evolution Baby

_outlaw wrote:

They freaked out because he's a liberal, not because he's pro-Israel.

In other news,

"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." The Ma'ariv article also quoted Dr. Emanuel as saying that his son spends most summers visiting in Tel Aviv, and that he speaks Hebrew, but not fluently."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910047157&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Honestly do you think he was chosen because of his Pro-Israel stance. Newsflash our entire government is pro Israel. He was chosen for his experience int he Clinton White house, his long standing in the House of Representatives, and his ability to stand up to the Right on important issues.

I'm all for the choice.

MrBrian

Its Evolution Baby wrote:

Honestly do you think he was chosen because of his Pro-Israel stance. Newsflash our entire government is pro Israel. He was chosen for his experience int he Clinton White house, his long standing in the House of Representatives, and his ability to stand up to the Right on important issues.

I'm all for the choice.

You need to read his 2006 book. Then think about his position (chief of staff) and then think about where America may be headed.

fuck

Its Evolution Baby wrote:

Honestly do you think he was chosen because of his Pro-Israel stance. Newsflash our entire government is pro Israel. He was chosen for his experience int he Clinton White house, his long standing in the House of Representatives, and his ability to stand up to the Right on important issues.

I'm all for the choice.

Pro-Israeli is one thing. This guy is BEYOND that. Do you guys not realize that he JUSTIFIED POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS OF PALESTINIAN FIGURES. This is a guy who thought Bush wasn't pro-Israeli enough...
That should speak volumes.
This is a guy who didn't want the puppet Prime Minister of Iraq to speak to Congress because he criticized Israel.
That should speak volumes.

Where will this guy lead us to in terms of our standing in the world? Obama wants the US to be the 'beacon of light' in the world. how can we do something like that if we reject people from speaking to our government? what do you think his stance will be on Iran, in terms of Israel? Lebanon? Syria? do you honestly think this guy will lead us to a better status in the world? our fundamental and unilateral support of Israel is a HUGE problem, and this guy will only further these things, not help make them better, and certainly not even keep them the same. The fact that people are so quick to excuse these things is absurd.

Also, I believe he's only been a Representative since the 2003... that's not really "long standing", though that's beside the point.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Some Raimondo perspective


"Forget the Honeymoon
Getting down to bizness with Obama
by Justin Raimondo

When I hear talk of a "honeymoon" for the President-elect – to last as long as six months, by some accounts – I think: "Fine. You lay off, and I'll do the same." But oh no, it doesn't work that way. Obama has already started in on us, and he hasn't even taken the oath of office yet. I'm talking about his appointments, starting with Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.

Hey, I thought we were gong to be treated to a bipartisan approach by the Obama administration, that he was going to "reach across the aisle" – what happened to that? Señor Emanuel is known as a street-fightin' Democrat, and that's understating it. A Rolling Stone profile of Emanuel had this to say:

"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.'"

He's mean, he's ultra-partisan, and he's a fully-paid up member in good standing of the War Party: during the Democratic primaries in 2006, when Emanuel headed up the Dems' congressional operation, he backed pro-war candidates over antiwar Democrats every time. As Bill Safire put it on "Meet the Press" just before Tim Russert died:

"What about Rahm Emanuel [for Vice President], the most powerful voice in the House of Representatives that agrees with Hillary Clinton on foreign affairs? He's a hawk. And although he's a rootin' tootin' liberal on domestic affairs, he is a hawk on foreign affairs. I was at the – a roast for him for Epilepsy Association, and Hillary Clinton was there, and I said, quite frankly, here you have the hawkish side of the Democratic Party. If they get together, the bumper sticker will read 'Invade and bomb with Hillary and Rahm.'"

When the House Democratic majority passed a military appropriations bill slated for Iraq, a clause that would have prohibited an attack on Iran without a vote in Congress was deleted at the instigation of Emanuel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. When Rep. John Murtha presaged the popular rebellion against the Iraq war by coming out against it in no uncertain terms, Emanuel urged Pelosi to refrain from endorsing his call for withdrawal, arguing that it would hurt the Democrats politically.

With the smiling face of Don Obama serving as a front for the knife-wielding Emanuel and his "legendary intensity" – as Rolling Stone writer Joshua Green puts it – one has to wonder: what (or who) else does the Prez-elect have in store for us?

The answer is: Jane Harman – as head of the CIA! (If she doesn't get it, not to worry: she's also up for head of Homeland Security – and if she doesn't get that, she's on the short list for National Intelligence czarina).

Will somebody go see if Glenn Greenwald is okay? I fear he may have done something drastic, especially after all that gushing he's done over the Dear Leader.

Harman has always taken the side of the Bushies when it comes to eavesdropping: during Gen Michael Hayden's confirmation hearings for CIA director, she was against making government eavesdropping an issue. When the New York Times revealed the illegal eavesdropping program authorized by Bush, she was outraged – at the Times, which she strongly hinted ought to be prosecuted. She was pro-war, and did her part in spreading the "bad intel" she now claims to have been fooled by – declaring not only that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but also purveying the rather far-out notion that al-Qaeda had taken up residence there prior to the US invasion.

Harman's ambition is matched only by her recklessness: she came up against the FBI, in 2006, when she was investigated for going a little too far in her aggressive campaign to retain her seat as head of the House Intelligence Committee. Apparently she had AIPAC officials and major Democratic donors personally lobby Pelosi, in return for the promise that she, Harman, would intercede on behalf of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top AIPAC officials currently being prosecuted for stealing US top secret intelligence and passing it on to Israeli officials. Law enforcement officials aver hard evidence for this quid pro quo was never uncovered. I'm hoping, however, that some Republican back-bencher has the balls to bring it up at her confirmation hearing. Perhaps they could call Pelosi as a witness.

Combined with the foreign policy views of Dennis Ross, Obama's senior advisor for Middle East affairs – who is reportedly up for the National Security Advisor slot – what seems to be shaping up is a perfect trifecta of trouble on the horizon. The old adage that presidents rarely govern in synch with the way they campaign applies here, and in spades. Change? Not in the foreign policy realm, buster. Indeed, if any change is involved, it may well be for the worse.

By the time Obama is through making his appointments, all those Hollywood liberals over at the HuffPuffPost will be huffing and puffing with outrage: and, in true Hollywood style, they'll be screaming: "Forget the honeymoon – I want a divorce!"

But it will be too late for that. The Big O marches on, with all sorts of plans for our future, including perhaps "national service," and – for sure – a significant ratcheting-up of the war in Afghanistan. In the meantime, Iran continues to loom large as an issue.

Just as Obama was claiming his victory, the Iranians were warning us to stay away from their airspace – there have apparently been a number of close calls recently. Also, the Russians announced they were putting missiles near their border with Poland, to counter the sophisticated anti-missile "defense" systems put in place by the US and its Eastern European ally. Adding insult to injury, the official explanation for the US deployment is that the anti-missile system is there to guard against an Iranian attack. Whether the Obama-ites buy into this sort of malarkey or not isn't clear. What is all too obvious, however, is that President Obama will continue the West's war of words – and "soft power" – against the Russians, a prospect that bodes ill for the cause of peace.

So, you thought you were turning over a whole new leaf for the country when you marked your ballot for the Dear Leader – didn't you? Well, surprise – surprise!"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13728

MrBrian

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Some Raimondo perspective

By the time Obama is through making his appointments, all those Hollywood liberals over at the HuffPuffPost will be huffing and puffing with outrage: and, in true Hollywood style, they'll be screaming: "Forget the honeymoon – I want a divorce!"

Classic,