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Nov 6 2008

UPDATED: Obama’s choice for White House chief of staff is known for his work as a killer strategist – and for a style that one ally likens to a toothache.

Rahm Emanuel - Barack Obama

Rahm Emanuel - Barack Obama

UPDATE: CHECK OUT THIS LINK: Emanuel’s links to the Israeli intelligence servic
 

“Clinton’s going-away gift to Emanuel was a seat on the quasi-governmental Freddie Mac board, which paid him $231,655 in director’s fees in 2001 and $31,060 in 2000,” Lynn Sweet wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times on Jan. 3, 2002.

 

     During the time Emanuel spent on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandal involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities. Freddie Mac and its sister organization Fannie Mae were taken over by the federal government in September 2008 after years of mismanagement and scandal. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson put the two beleaguered GSEs into a conservatorship, stripping common stock shareholders of their rights to govern the companies.

 

     In 2006, Freddie Mac was forced to pay a $3.8 million fine to the Federal Election Commission to settle allegations it illegally contributed to congressional candidates between 2000 and 2003 – while Emanuel was on the board and running for and serving in Congress.

 

     “Freddie Mac was accused of illegally using corporate resources between 2000 and 2003 for 85 fundraisers that collected about $1.7 million for federal candidates,” an Associated Press story from April 18, 2006 said. “Much of the fundraising benefited members of the House Financial Services Committee, a panel whose decisions can affect Freddie Mac.”

 

     And, since his successful run for the House of Representatives in 2002, Emanuel has been the beneficiary of campaign cash from Freddie Mac and its sister organization Fannie Mae – $51,750 according to the Center for Responsive Politics Web site OpenSecrets.org.

While Emanuel’s was on the Freddie Mac payroll in an overseer capacity, the government-sponsored enterprise was cooking the books. According to a Forbes magazine article from Dec. 11, 2003, the GSE was fined $125 million for understating its earnings by a whopping $5 billion.

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Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Congressman who will be President-elect Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff, is “dangerous, absolutely relentless when he’s got a political kill in sight,” according to an admiring Republican colleague, Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole. Emanuel is also, President Clinton once told Fortune, “one of the top political minds in Washington,” a former ballet dancer who “favors the counterattack over the attack.”

SOURCE: White House chief of staff

 

Political views

During his original 2002 campaign, Emanuel “indicated his support of President Bush’s position on Iraq, but said he believed the president needed to better articulate his position to the American people”.[7] Inspired by his pediatrician father, one of the major goals he spoke of during the race was “to help make health care affordable and available for all Americans”.[7]

Emanuel has maintained a 100 percent pro-choice voting record and is generally liberal on social issues. He has aligned himself with the Democratic Leadership Council.

Rahm Emanuel endorses the United States Public Service Academy Act.[citation needed]

According to Fox News, in accordance with his deep Jewish roots and his volunteering in Israel when it was under attack from Saddam Hussein’s missiles in the first Gulf War, he has indicated consistent support for Israel. A November 2008 article it claimed that while expressing empathy for Palestinians, Emanuel has explicitly condemned their leaders.[21] In June 2007, Emanuel condemned an outbreak of Palestinian violence in the Gaza Strip and criticized Arab countries for not applying the same kind of pressure on the Palestinians as they have on Israel. “Fatah and Hamas are tearing the Palestinian area of the Gaza strip apart in what they call a political rivalry, and the Palestinian people are paying a price for Palestinian violence,” he said at the time. “Governments from around the world and the Arab world have said nothing. … I just want you to think for a second, if this were the result of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities, would the international silence and the silence of the Arab world be this deafening?” At a 2003 pro-Israel rally in Chicago, Emanuel told the marchers Israel was ready for peace but would not get there until Palestinians “turn away from the path of terror”, according to the Chicago Tribune.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

Was picking Emmanuel as White House chief of staff a good one in your opinion?  Obama has started his transforming of the White House  into his image!Check this out: America transformed

Nov 6 2008

Obama and Preferences “It’s time to move past racial quotas.”

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Tuesday was a bad day for America’s racial grievance industry: Not only did Barack Obama become President-elect, but voters continued to show their mistrust for racial quotas and set-asides.

While Mr. Obama was winning 43% of the white vote nationally – Nebraska and Colorado were also weighing a ballot initiative that would eliminate race and gender preferences in government hiring. The measure passed easily in Nebraska, and similar bans have already passed in Michigan, California and Washington state.

Returns in Colorado were still too close to call as we went to press, but opponents of the ban were ahead slightly, 50% to 49%, with 91% of precincts counted.

The existence of racism in America has long been used by some civil rights leaders and the political left as an all-purpose explanation for racial disparities. According to the likes of Al Sharpton and Julian Bond, bigotry is at the root of higher rates of black teen pregnancy or lower rates of black homeownership. The election of a black President doesn’t mean that racism no longer exists. But it does make it harder to justify the claim that a racist country is the major obstacle to black advancement.

As President, Mr. Obama will have to meet the expectations of millions of voters, including minorities.

Slavery and Jim Crow are part of America’s history, and racial preferences, however misguided, have been an attempt to atone for that past. But Mr. Obama’s own success and the success of initiatives banning racial discrimination are signs that America wants to move past the era of racial spoils or favoritism and toward a new era of color-blind opportunity for all.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal

Yes if a black Obama can become president then any black person has just as much a chance as a white person to make something out of themself, all they have to do is be willing to work for it!