Emanuel Says Kennedy Clinton Comments Out Of Line

The New York Times:

On a day when it seemed that everybody was beating up on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton -- even "Saturday Night Live" had run a skit making fun of her -- one person came to her defense on Sunday: Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the No. 3 Democrat in the House.

Mr. Emanuel called to assail Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, for remarks he made when asked about the possibility of Senator Barack Obama of Illinois choosing Mrs. Clinton, of New York, as his running-mate.

"I have a lot of respect for Ted Kennedy, but I don't know how the hell he comes off saying that," said Mr. Emanuel, who has ties to Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama and has not endorsed in the race. "The gratuitous attack on her is uncalled for and wrong. He is a better senator than that comment reveals."

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Comments

[SCG]

Rahm Emanuel isn't fit to shine Sen. Kennedy's shoes , let alone lecture him.

Piss off Rahm, and join the rest of you're DLC sell outs.

[Teri]

he should just support his favorite candiate, hillary clinton and then say goodbye to his seat in congress when barack obama is president. rahm emmanuel can stay with "ole miss" if he wants to, but the train to be on is the one that kennedy is on and that is the obama train!

[finlandstation]

i'd like to know where my posts have gone to. is this part of a conspiracy to weed anything even remotely critical of obama from this blog.

[bigbingtheory]

Yeah that 's it. I've had posts disappear too and I am usually very pro Obama, he being the nominee and all.

[ched]

Rahm is well able to back-peddle and eat crow when necessary, at least where the Clintons are concerned, as he demonstrated last week after correctly calling Obama the presumptive nominee, then having his press girl "clarify."

This time, he needs to apologize to Ted Kennedy, whose statement in no way directly disparaged Hillary, and which pales in comparison to the insults hurled directly at Obama by Herself. Rahm seems like a smart enough guy, and is clearly ambitious. But as the only member of the Illinois dem delegation not to endorse his fellow Illinoisan, and a well known DLC tool whose inflated credit for the 2006 dem takeover of Congress is fading fast.he's already treading on thin ice. Add to this his insult of Kennedy - whose boots Rahm ought to be licking, instead of spitting upon - and Rahm's future could start to look less than rosy come November. If he wants to get right with the new boss, he needs to have his press girl issue another "clarification" post-haste.

[finlandstation]

with all due respect, it is very likely that emanuel will be the next speaker of the house. as one of the central strategists behind the party's victory last year he stands a good chance of unseating nancy pelosi next year following obama's landslide defeat this fall. we'll see then who will be licking whose boots.

[bigbingtheory]

Highly doubful unless he swings to the left. We are re-taking our party.

[leftoflennon]

Well Said

[Jammer]

I can only take solace in the fact that Obama and his advisors are infinitely wiser and smarter then his supporters. Poised at the edge of victory, his supporters demonstrate the most ungracious uncivilized winning behaviour I have seen in quite a while. Obama knows he needs to unify the party and bring Clintons voters to his side and thank God for that, because left to their own devices his supporters cant help themselves from piling on and piling on in increasingly negative and nasty ways and angering her supporters more and more. Thank god someone here knows how to play this game. "Monster", "liar", "creep" "indirectly responsible for Vince Foster's death." You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves. How can such rude uncivilized cretins be supporting a candidate of hope and unity?

One more thought if your brains can stand it: if you want to blow apart the Democratic party, get your guy to appoint some OTHER woman as VP. Then you really will go down in flames and you will deserve it. But there is no chance of that, Obama is too clever to go down that road.

Again, thank God your candidate can run intellectual circles around the lot of you.

[Testtubebaby]

Go suck a grape...the sour one of course.

[knosiswar]

Obama - Clark 08' is good for me

[knosiswar]

Obama/Boxer or Sebeilus 08

Good Also. BUT NO NO NO with HRC. Remember the Brady Bill.

[bigbingtheory]

Well, sorry but Hillary CLinton has burned some bridges in the Democrqatic Party with her campaign. I, like many others, was an ardent and loyal supporter of the Clintons during the 90s. I never read one post where an Obama supporter speculated about Vince Foster's death. It may have been brought up as something the Republicans will do but I think you ranimosity is misplaced. It's been Hillary, who lost this thing 2 months ago and her supporters that have been trashing the supporters of the nominee. If we seem angry at Hillary it's because she sold us out, is tearing down a fellow Democrat and seems willing to split the party in two for her own selfish wishes.

[joeinvt]

As a fellow Obama supporter, it is sad to say but there were many Vince Foster comments, etc. posted on HuffPo. Just because Bill was stupid enough to give the Republicans something to get him on, doesn't mean that there wasn't really a vast right wing conspiracy---which is aiming it's sights on Obama at this very moment. The Clintons are fair game for criticism, but if we give credence to the lies and bullshit, we are inviting more of it on Barack. Remember Jerry Falwell hawking the Clinton Chronicles on his "Gospel" hour? How many people was that Clinton murdered to cover up his international cocaine smuggling operation?

[ObamaEdwards]

Gallant and sweet--but stupid. Kennedy's remarks are well founded. Both Clintons have shown us their dirty underwear in this campaign, proving that our government will be better off if the Clinton do not get another chance to tear up Washington with sexual scandal and distracting side issues. The Clintons have a ton of money. Before Hillary blows all of it on a hopeless campaign, they ought to retire.

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

Does anyone really care what Ted thinks?

[ched]

Does anyone really care what Rahm thinks?

[CallMeDeaconBlues]

Think we got it covered.

[coloneblog]

Emanuel's rebuke of Kennedy and Kennedy's comments on Mrs. Clinton aren't newsworthy. It's only the media that makes it so; they feed on, then fuel controversy for the sake of expanding editorial content. Case in point; in an earlier primary, Massachusetts' Democrats voted for Senator Clinton despite Obama endorsements by Kerry and Kennedy, himself. People aren't listening to this type of phony story-telling.

[jah2008]

"The gratuitous attack on her is uncalled for and wrong."

Where was the gratuitous attack? All he said was that it wasn't a good idea.

"how the lose loses will determine how the winner wins"

How about having the galls to say what you mean Rahm, instead of dancing around the obvious?

[bobo209]

Rahm emannuel??a porn star??damnn

[111]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

"On the night after the Clinton election, "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."His "take-no-prisoners attitude" earned him the nickname "Rahm-bo"

Mr. Emanuel is no judge of what is and is not appropriate behavior.

Rahm declared, "Winning is everything" and the candidate he has supported, who has used his tactical approach, focusing attention on key districts to ensure victory - lost. Obama who used Dean's 50 state strategy has won, has beaten Clinton in popular votes, pledged delegates and soon with superdelegates, proved Rahm's tactics ineffective.

Rahm was silent when Clinton said Obama was not qualified to be Commander in Chief. I believe the only reason he has spoken out now is that the remark was made about Hillary Clinton, not the remark itself.

The DLC is against single-payer universal health care. The DLC supports both NAFTA and CAFTA. During the 2004 Primary campaign the DLC attacked Presidential candidate Howard Dean as an out-of-touch liberal because of Dean's anti-war stance - the DLC supports the war in Iraq. This is why our congress continues to fund the war.

Thank you Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Obama for having courage to stand against this group.

[michelv]

Rhamy is a neocon.

[gun]

Honesty is so refreshing...and threatening, in a witness.

So congratulations, Senator Kennedy, you've said it again
-- when in the midst of a Bullworth moment --

You said what so many of us feel:
No deal with that wheel and her sometimes Big Heel!

Cause it won't be fair, square or new.
No, we ain't going down, that road again
-- didn't their foreplay lead us into the Bush?

Doesn't hindsight clearly reveal their sins, i.e. using America to self-medicate?

Obama is a new piece of paper;
has a different operating system, is a totally different cat.

What does she have that he wants or needs?

Oh, the herd loyalty of women like her? -- but where are those Clintonistas going to go? Isn't McCain everything they've been fighting all their life? A not-very-b­right-whit­e male who wants to rule: General Macho.

Chill ladies, there will be many women presidents...should America survive the Republicans and its rancid talk-show pundits;

Just look at the bumper crop coming up -- but they will be oh so much better than Hill: who, remember was planted into the political soil next to Goldwater and once embraced "tactical nuclear strikes."

& BESIDES, ANOTHER NEW YORKER would be such a better BARACK pardner.

WOW...Isn't it exciting watching America happen?
...Get on the new road... .. Just as the wheels threaten to come off...think it's a coincidence?

[DTGB]

what she HAS that Obama WANTS is 49% of Democratic voters in the primary. Something that it seems Obama supporters continue to forget. judging from the posts on Huff Post, i guess none of you care to bring that 49% back into the General. you beat up not only HRC but those of us who support her and you will NEED us to win, so i would strongly recommend a change in tone as you cannot win w/out her half of the party and the constant insults long ago became unbearable.
the utter lack of reason and insight into this historic campaign has become tedious. you guys just want to crucify Hillary, doesnt seem to me that you want to win a presidential election. OTHERWISE, all of you would be working to bring the very same Clinton supporters into your camp that you enthusiastically push away w/ every hateful, emotional, irrational post.
i want to beat McCain and i support Hillary. my concern is the depth to which i see Hillary supporters digging in.
so you want Obama to win? REALLY? well, you should start thinking about it since 49% of the 35 + million voters in this primary support her. YOU NEED THEM.

[PKSSK]

Very enlightening and so true. Again, thank you Senator Kennedy and Senator Obama for standing up and speaking the truth to what the American people need and want! The DLC is the past and we the people will support and participate in the philosophy of the DNC, which supports the needs of all the people!!!!

Obama/Boxer or Sebeilus 08

[castlerider]

Rahm, you're such a tool... Boooo Hooo.

Oh, we are all so Booh-Hooh with you... NOT!!

What a pansie. It's absolutely embarrasing that dwwebs like him can't shut the hell up and stay out of the picture. He's like the irritated brother-in-law at a wedding who can't stand that everyone isn't as miserable as he is...

[scorpioleidy]

I'm from IL, and I know Rahm Emanuel has a helluva lot of nerve calling Senator Kennedy to task for his comments about Hillary Huckabee. Rahm, just SHUT UP --- you are no Ted Kennedy!
Why is everyone so f*ckin scared of The Clintons????? Is everyone afraid of ending up like Vince Foster???

[miriamac]

The Clintons had nothing to do w. Vince Foster's death, "as far as I know."

[westcoastsc]

I believe that Vince Foster's death was a suicide, but I believe the Clintons indirectly caused it by not living up to the promises to be the people they say they are.

[steamboat]

Since you bring up Foster, I feel its only fair to respond with, "Kennedy is an expert on being out of line, especially when driving drunk over a bridge."

[punkingale]

And waiting nine hours to get help.

[eurydice]

Hillary Rodham Clinton's Rose Law Firm billing records, found in the White House residence in January 1996 two years after they had been subpoenaed by government regulators, disappeared shortly after the first lady was warned that the firm's billing problems were "very serious" and the then-ongoing Whitewater investigation could result in criminal charges, newly obtained records show.

More than 1,100 pages of grand jury testimony, investigative reports, memos, charging documents, chronologies, narratives and draft indictments, previously undisclosed but now being "processed" at the Library of Congress, say Mrs. Clinton knew considerably more about the firm's billing problems and their potential ramifications than she publicly acknowledged at the time.

According to the documents, given to the Library of Congress by the estate of Sam Dash, former ethics adviser to Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, Mrs. Clinton also knew that her former Rose partner Webster L. Hubbell was both the focus of the firm's billing concerns and a federal conflict-o­f-interest investigation, in which he was suspected of lying in a sworn statement to regulators about the firm's representation of a failed Arkansas savings and loan.

While Mrs. Clinton told the public at the time that Mr. Hubbell's March 14, 1994, resignation as associate attorney general involved an "internal billing dispute" with his Rose partners that "likely would be resolved," three months earlier she had been advised by another Rose partner, Allen Bird, that the "billing problems were very serious," according to the newly disclosed records.

[pleeezzze]

Whats your point ???
Everyone knows if there was Anything amiss , after spending 8 yrs and all our money, they would have found it .

Lets begin to consider the Fact that your Obama has Close ties with a very large crook at this very moment along with his Iraqi Buddy , Partner .

That should be of even greater interest to you and all of us now !

[bigbingtheory]

Are you referring to the Rezko tril which just wound up? If that's all you got, Patrick Fitzgerald found nothing to pin on Obama.

[vincie]

you believe ken starr, boy are you a radical.

[steamboat]

Amazing how these 'leftists' have turned-on the Clintons. They now echo every word the rightwingers said in 1999 and 2000.

[bigbingtheory]

Ken Starr also cleared the Clitnons in the death of Vince Foster. Though his tactics were deplorable and it was a witch hunt, he did come up with many examples of sketchy behavior the Republicans would re-hash.

[Vespasian]

Is it not time to send this senile old drunk home for good. He clearly is a case of "wet brain"... long term drunkenness will do that to you! It's a real shame that liberals have to be burdened with such an old fool as their "lion". They have enough burdens as it is.

[mystic]

Emanuel represents the current apoplexy in Israel. They're apoplectic that if Obama becomes President, their wet dreams of world domination and the Greater Israel will disappear down the drain. That may well be true. Obama will not enable criminals, be it Israel or anyone else. Israel doesn't like that because a decent honest US president is a threat to their plans; Israel needs a fraud, criminal and thug like Hillary and her blowjob husband.

[daddydamon]

Well said. The Israelis and their American sympathizers are scared of justice. They are also scared of a US Ambassador to the UN who will call those criminals about their violations of security council resolutions. We lunced Saddam because he violated sanctions and we stroke the Israelis for not only doing that, I think the count is 18 now, but also killing innocents, shooting 7 year old girls in the face. They have a nerve talking about Hamas. Israel is far far worse.

[FLindependant]

This is something to consider mystic and I thank you for bringing it up. I was wondering why he would slam Kennedy for stating the obvious (and his professional political opinion) and leave Hillary virtually unscathed for her battering of Obama and her "hard-working white voters" comment.

[daddydamon]

lynched, not lunced

[eurydice]

Israel will supply Hillary's Lone Gunman.

[pleeezzze]

You along with... mystic... are a bit confused .
mystic ...how can you say Obama will not enable criminals ? He was abetting criminal Resko .
Speaking of criminal thug Hillary and her blowjob husband , Please define the difference in Obama and the Clintons on ( All ) of your charges.( you must acknowledge Truth to define, because We already know . ).

Don't throw rocks when you live in a glass house !

[finlandstation]

oh, i get it, a state as small as rhode island is seeking world domination. exactly what would israel do with the world if they got control of it. convert everyone to judiasm? make everyone into troskyites? or capitalists? make everyone go to medical school? or learn how to play the violin or piano?
or just get a phd in astrophysics? sounds menacing. perhaps, a world dominated by some thing that thinks like you is what we should be aiming at. someone with obvious mental issues and distorted views of the world. i think your account name gives us a good window into who you are.