Obama's new Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will be his handler. Emanuel goes way back with Democratic politics starting as director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1988. He is known as somewhat of a fanatic in his private lobbying for what he wants in Congress. Some of his most notorious episodes have been documented in a Wikipedia biography: "Emanuel is known for his 'take-no-prisoners attitude' that has earned him the nickname 'Rahm-bo.' Emanuel is said to have 'mailed a rotten fish to a former coworker after the two parted ways.' On the night after the 1996 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.'" According to Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, "Rep. Rahm Emmanuel, (D-IL) Emmanuel ran political interference for Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Clinton White House." I think we can expect more of the same for Obama.
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