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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichelle not liking Rahm Emanuel makes me love her even more.
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
(39,226 posts)You can just hear here asking Barack WTF are we doing here?
Bless her.
gateley
(62,683 posts)I've always love his name, though.
Autumn
(44,686 posts)along with taste.
boxman15
(1,033 posts)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
(18,541 posts)But I damn sure hope they're going to be working under different rules.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)I think our first lady has very good instincts.
ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts)If I didn't know better, I'd say it sounds like cheerleader heads exploding...
NGU.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)dionysus
(26,467 posts)for rahm emmanuel... i don't quite get it myself...
ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts)NGU.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)...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
(26,316 posts)NGU.
ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts)joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Search for my name, mandates, my name, post-partisanship (that's a big one), my name, moderate, etc, etc.
ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts)NGU.
DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)With an AMEN thrown in.
ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts)cilla4progress
(24,554 posts)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
(21,589 posts)in his term. The book makes me love Michele Obama even more. I'm so happy she is our first lady.
cilla4progress
(24,554 posts)Picture of Michelle remains the same: committed to a larger vision, and adamant in defense of it! Love our first lady.
sivansanabliss
(14 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)cilla4progress
(24,554 posts)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
(29,381 posts)not sure many actually like him.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Rock on, First Lady!
Missy Vixen
(16,207 posts)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
(11,351 posts)I have always liked her too..
former9thward
(31,684 posts)ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts)What a shock.
NGU.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)liskddksil
(2,753 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)@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
(18,402 posts)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
(21,311 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)It is difficult to have a warm relationship with a cold-blooded DLC reptile.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)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?