Michelle not liking Rahm Emanuel makes me love her even more.

[trumad]

January 7, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A new book by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor indicates first lady Michelle Obama had doubts about the president's choice of Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff.

In the book titled The Obamas, Cantor writes that the relationship between Mrs. Obama and Emanuel "was distant and awkward from the beginning."

Kantor says Emanuel offered his resignation to the president in early 2010 after Emanuel's view that the health care overhaul proposal was a bad idea surfaced in the news media.

Obama advisor David Axelrod is quoted as saying that Emanuel "understood that the stories were an embarrassment."
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8494235

[BeyondGeography]

1. My reaction as well

You can just hear here asking Barack WTF are we doing here?

Bless her.

[gateley]

2. I'd think a lot of 'relationships' w/Rahm would be "distant and awkward".

I've always love his name, though.

[Autumn]

3. Well the woman does have great judgment,

along with taste.

[boxman15]

4. This gives me more reason to believe a second-term Obama will be much more like

the one those that are disappointed with him on the left, and even those that aren't, thought he would be in 2008. The president relied to heavily on insiders in both Washington and Wall Street during his first term, though that is starting to change. Expect a complete overhaul of his cabinet following 2012 should he win.

[DCKit]

8. I wouldn't count on a complete overhaul of the cabinet.

But I damn sure hope they're going to be working under different rules.

[riverwalker]

5. that was my reaction too n/t

[PA Democrat]

6. Same here.

[DCKit]

7. The guy is toxic. What's to like?

I think our first lady has very good instincts.

[ClassWarrior]

9. What's that sound I hear?

If I didn't know better, I'd say it sounds like cheerleader heads exploding...



NGU.

[FarLeftFist]

21. Cheerleading for who?

[dionysus]

23. it seems the anti-obama folks have this belief that his supporters have some deep love and fixation

for rahm emmanuel... i don't quite get it myself...

[ClassWarrior]

25. I love the DU search function.

NGU.

[joshcryer]

30. Yes. All Obama supporters are caricatured as adoring everything he does...

...from his cabinet picks, to his compromising policy positions. This caricature is quite obvious in GG's continuation of a rape joke.

Meanwhile in the real world people hold differing opinions on different things and are not a homogeneous group of sycophants as is so often wished for.

[ClassWarrior]

32. I love the DU search function.

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

34. .

[joshcryer]

36. Yeah? Find all my posts extremely critical of Obama?

Search for my name, mandates, my name, post-partisanship (that's a big one), my name, moderate, etc, etc.

[ClassWarrior]

37. A username is all that's necessary.

NGU.

[DeathToTheOil]

10. K'd & R'd

With an AMEN thrown in.

[ClassWarrior]

11. .

[Odin2005]

12. K&R

[cilla4progress]

13. Me, too!

Read excerpts from the book..ordered it last night (though it may be trash talk..maybe shouldn't have. Seems like a credible behind the scenes view, which I love...). Anyway, one excerpt aligned exactly with my thinking on the Massachusetts senatorial race after Teddy K. died. First time I read someone else making my same observation: it was 110% Rahm's fault that republican Scott Brown took that race, which had DIRE consequences - tipping the almost 50/50 split in the Senate to the repubs. What OTHER responsibility did he have...what was MORE important, and who ELSE was more responsible...totally the chief of staff's duties, President's primary political henchman, to make sure we retain our numbers in Congress. I hold that foul-mouthed, misogynistic, ass**** totally responsible for that debacle, and I can see why Michelle despised him ... for this and so many other reasons!

[cally]

38. That's exactly how I see Emmanuel. It was his fault and the President should have fired him early i

in his term. The book makes me love Michele Obama even more. I'm so happy she is our first lady.

[cilla4progress]

40. Finished the book, now

Picture of Michelle remains the same: committed to a larger vision, and adamant in defense of it! Love our first lady.

[sivansanabliss]

14. Hmm...But her hubby likes him...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. Welcome to DU. Enjoy your stay

[cilla4progress]

15. Also, remember how badly he dissed

the left while on his watch? His mind is as foul as his mouth. Good riddance, and send my regrets to the lovely city of Chicago! Hope we've seen the last of him on the national stage. He seems a very strange counterpoint to the graceful, controlled Mr. Obama. Maybe a case of opposites attract.

[fascisthunter]

16. Rahm is a fascist prick

not sure many actually like him.

[City Lights]

17. Ha ha...same here!

Rock on, First Lady!

[Missy Vixen]

18. I love Michelle Obama

I wonder what else she's disagreed with her husband over.

I didn't think it was possible to love her more after the interview she gave shortly after the President was sworn in. He likes to snoop in her closet. She told him to "go solve world hunger or something."

LOVE HER.

[marlakay]

22. I hadn't heard that and I love it!

I have always liked her too..

[former9thward]

19. The people of Chicago disagree with you, Michelle.

[ClassWarrior]

20. The people of Chicago like asshole mayors?

What a shock.



NGU.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

31. The 1% do.

[liskddksil]

35. Not these Chicago residents

http://chicagoist.com/2012/01/04/chicago_teachers_union_holds_sit-in.php

[Luminous Animal]

24. Glenn Greenwald thinks perhaps she should have chief of staff...

https://twitter.com/#!/ggreenwald/status/155710777016320001
@ggreenwald
Reading this Jodi Kantor excerpt makes one think things may have been better if Michelle Obama had been Chief of Staff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/us/politics/michelle-obamas-evolution-as-first-lady.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

[frazzled]

26. That was your takeaway?

It was a minor and oblique part of the story. But whatever. How about the real and mutual antipathy to Robert Gibbs?

They sure look distant and awkward:

[donheld]

28. You missed the off camera ass kicking sessions

[bvar22]

27. the relationship between Mrs. Obama and Emanuel "was distant and awkward..."

It is difficult to have a warm relationship with a cold-blooded DLC reptile.

[Cleita]

29. If she told him, he should have listened to her. n/t

[treestar]

39. For Rahm haters

Has your opinion of the WH improved since he has been gone. I can't even think of the name of the guy who replaced him, so would guess he is not controversial on DU.

Whatever evils Rahm did, they must be gone, no? So the POTUS is doing a better job because of it, right?