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Rahm Emanuel Disses Sarah Palin

Posted 11.22.2011

Former White House chief of staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had plenty of partisan jokes for the audience at a dinner for Iowa Democrats in Des M...

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THE COUNTDOWN: Unions Get Nasty, Big Names Get Cagey

Posted 05.25.2011

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As we head in to the penultimate weekend of the Chicago mayoral campaign, polls show a lot of minds made up, and plenty of us still undecided. So, app...

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LISTEN: The Rahm Emanuel Opponent Obama Once Endorsed

Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama had no shortage of praise to lavish on his outgoing Chief of Staff when Rahm Emanuel decided to leave that post and run for Chi...

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Rahm Emanuel Says Goodbye To White House

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Departing Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is saying goodbye to the White House and President Barack Obama. Without specifically mentio...

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Rahm Is Going

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emanuel can leave the White House, then, with considerable pride in his accomplishments.

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Dem Insiders Trash Rahm Emanuel, His Effect On White House 'Tone'

Financial Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some time in the next few days, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's chief of staff, looks almost certain to quit his job to pursue his dream of becoming mayo...

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Rahm Emanuel The White House Voice Of Reason?

Washington Post | Jason Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rahm Emanuel is officially a Washington caricature. He's the town's resident leviathan, a bullying, bruising White House chief of staff who is a prime...

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Rahm, His Critics, and the American People

Zack Exley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Rahm Administration is failing because it believes that the Obama Campaign's big, inspiring message was in fact hippy BS.

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Emanuel: U.S. Is Fed Up With Israel, Palestinians

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel recently told the Israeli consul in Los Angeles that the Obama administration is fed up with both Israel and t...

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Rahm Emanuel Meddling To Keep Paterson From Race

The Daily Beast | Lloyd Grove | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's amazingly awkward attempt to nudge damaged New York Gov. David Paterson out of the race to keep his job - as chronicled in la...

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I've just returned from Alaska, where I conducted interviews and archival research for a book on Palin, and many of those I spoke to in the Last Frontier, from across the political spectrum, noted that Palin was fixated on Obama.

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Rahm Emanuel "Most Influential White House Chief Of Staff In A Generation"?

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER and JEFF ZELENY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seven months after moving into his office in the West Wing, Mr. Emanuel is emerging as perhaps the most influential White House chief of staff in a ge...

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Rahm Emanuel Warns Liberal Groups To Stop Ads Against Dems

Politico | JONATHAN MARTIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel warned liberal groups this week to stop running ads against Democratic members of Congress. The powerful top ...

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Rahm Emanuel Pushing Obama Plans In Gyms, Restaurants

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel starts many mornings with a workout in the U.S. House of Representatives gym. He also lifts weights. The re...

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Rahm Leads Weekly 'Inner Circle' Meetings To Craft Obama's Strategy

US News | Posted 05.25.2011

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It happens every Saturday. That's when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel convenes a special meeting for members of President Obama's inner circl...

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Rahm Goes To The Movies, Helps Seizure Victim

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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A surprised fellow moviegoer passes on word that Rahm Emanuel took time out Saturday night to see The Wrestler at the E Street Cinema last night with ...

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Rahm: Ben Nelson The One Who Held Up Stimulus

The New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rahm Emanuel's office, which is no more than a three-second walk from the Oval Office, is as neat as a Marine barracks. On his desk, the files and doc...

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Rahm: Obama Lost Control Of Stimulus Debate

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, in an interview with reporters, conceded that President Obama lost control of the stimulus debate by focusing...

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Rahm Invites Moderate Republicans To White House For Private Meeting

CQ | Posted 05.25.2011

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The president's top aide, Rahm Emanuel, has invited a group of moderate Republicans to a private White House meeting Tuesday amid a Democratic push to...

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Rahm Emanuel: "Mr. President... You Can Have Your Water Wings"

Fortune/ CNN Money | Nina Easton | Posted 05.25.2011

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(Washingion D.C) Fortune -- On a wretchedly hot August day outside the Caterpillar tractor plant in Montgomery, Ill., President Bush and the state's c...

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Rahm Reaches Out To GOP: Meeting With Leaders Today

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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President-elect Barack Obama will continue his efforts to reach across the aisle today, as his designated White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will...

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Rahm Emanuel's Political Pirouettes

John R. MacArthur | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Emanuel's legendary aggressiveness were put to work in the service of "good government," he might, indeed, do wonderful things. But I somehow doubt that's what Obama has in mind for his friend.

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Barack Obama: America's First Jewish President!

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is impressive to see the number of Jews that Barack (his name means "blessed" in Hebrew as well as in Arabic and Swahili) Obama is already surrounding himself with.

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Rahm Emanuel and Arab Perceptions

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

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The stories that have been circulating about Rahm Emanuel are as reprehensible as the "Barack Obama is a secret Muslim/Manchurian candidate" tale.

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Rahm Emanuel: How He Won The '06 Elections

GQ | Ryan Lizza | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is back in September, nearly six weeks before the massive landslide that would upend the U.S. Congress, and Rahm Emanuel is looking grim. He's si...

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