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Rahm Emanuel Meddling To Keep Paterson From Race

The Daily Beast | Lloyd Grove | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York

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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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Sarah Palin's Obama Obsession

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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Geoffrey Dunn

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 09.15.2009 | Politics

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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 09.07.2009 | Politics

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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 06.28.2009 | Politics

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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 04.16.2009 | Politics

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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 03.26.2009 | Politics

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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 03.25.2009 | Politics

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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 03.16.2009 | Politics

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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 02.27.2009 | Politics

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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 Reaches Out To GOP: Meeting With Leaders Today

Washington Post | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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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 12.20.2008 | Politics

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John R. MacArthur

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 12.15.2008 | Politics

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Martin Lewis

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 12.15.2008 | Politics

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James Zogby

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

Fortune/ CNN Money | Nina Easton | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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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 Emanuel: Knife Fighter, A Look Back

The New York Times | Elisabeth Bumiller | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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The best Rahm Emanuel story is not the one about the decomposing two-and-a-half-foot fish he sent to a pollster who displeased him. It is not about t...

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Rahm Emanuel's Valentines Day Jokes: "Valentine's Day Is When Dick Cheney Fantasizes About Waterboarding"

Politico | Anne Schroeder Mullins | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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The Washington Press Club dinner is the beginning of the end of sorts. Every year it officially marks the start of Prom season, ala the rubber chicken...

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Rahm Emanuel: How He Won The '06 Elections

GQ | Ryan Lizza | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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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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Another FDR? Not Quite

Rahm Emanuel | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Rahm Emanuel

Praising the president for merely attempting to clean up the mess he helped make is one thing, but comparing him to Roosevelt is quite another.

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Clinton Bulldog Rahm Emanuel Tilting Toward Obama?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the aggressive former Clinton administration aide and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, hasn't yet endor...

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