Biden to nominate Rahm Emanuel to serve as ambassador to Japan

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

President Biden will nominate former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as ambassador to Japan, and R. Nicholas Burns to serve as ambassador to China, the White House announced Friday.

Emanuel previously worked as White House chief of staff in the Obama administration and served in the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2009. Biden’s decision to tap Emanuel for one of the top diplomatic posts has been widely reported despite strong pushback from liberal Democrats who criticized his tenure as Chicago mayor, specifically how he handled the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager, by a White police officer

Burns is a professor at Harvard University. He has served as ambassador to NATO and to Greece, and worked at the State Department as undersecretary of state for political affairs.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/20/biden-nominate-rahm-emanuel-serve-ambassador-japan/

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Wanted to add my 2 cents but Tokyo is ~6,300 miles from Chicago so it seems like a "move him far far away" decision.

[Aristus]

1. I don't see Emmanuel making a lot of friends in Japan.

Not the most well-mannered guy on the planet...

[helpisontheway]

3. Right! Nt

[marble falls]

7. I don't see Rahm Emmanuel making friends anywhere, Barack could see his good points, ...

... but Barack is a much better man than I!

[PatSeg]

10. Yes, really an odd choice

especially for a diplomatic position.

[cinematicdiversions]

37. Particularly for Japan.

He would do better in a country that is more appreciative of his lack of decorum.

[PatSeg]

41. Oh yes, that's an excellent point

I have to wonder why he was chosen especially for Japan.

[getagrip_already]

2. Is he still pissed over WWII? ;) n/t

[reality1]

4. ugghh

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Ugh. Terrible choice. Admittedly, I don't know the full of CV of Rahm Emmanuel,

but he's been quite a jackass this century.

[zuul]

6. . . .

[The Mouth]

8. What did Japan do to President Biden

To deserve this?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Maybe they made Jill sleep on a cardboard bed in the olympic village.

[Mrsfiddlegirl]

9. Old ways die hard.

Rahm has always been a hack. Must have needed a job...the Chicago way.🤢

[rsdsharp]

11. I don't see Rahm Emanuel as a diplomat.

By definition that requires diplomacy. He ain’t got any.

[Rebl2]

17. Nope he doesn't

[Withywindle]

21. Right?

We might be at war with Japan in just a few months.

[Deminpenn]

26. +1

[madaboutharry]

12. He is going to need a lot of tutoring in Japanese culture.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. Somebody warn Rahm the Japanese broke our swear word code back during WWII.

[PoliticAverse]

14. Excellent choice, but Australia would have been better...

it's even further from Washington DC.

[hamsterjill]

15. I tire of the same old names.

Rahm had his hay day, and in my old lady opinion, it's time for some new blood.

Let him write his memoirs rather than continue on the government payroll.

[live love laugh]

16. I like Rahm but the critics will eat this up. uggGGGHHH. nt

[onetexan]

44. Rahm w represent the US well in Japan

I like him but he rubs alot of ppl wrong way. I think he's very talented & despite his acerbic demeanor he is a good man & a shrewd politician & operative.

[Sneederbunk]

18. Better over there than over here.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Yeah, basically that was my

[The Mouth]

23. "Better inside the tent pissing out

than outside the tent pissing in"

As LBJ said about J. Edgar Hoover

[McKim]

22. One Way to Get Rid of Him

This is one way to get rid of him and out of Biden's hair in Washington DC. Hope he learns enough manners to represent us in etiquette conscious Japan. At least he is no longer hurting the public school families of Chicago!

[The Mouth]

24. I know we're not supposed to trash Democratic politicians here

but sometimes it's hard.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

25. "Why can't you people learn to eat with forks? What's wrong with you?" NT

[Evolve Dammit]

27. Nooooo. Supreme asshole. This is what makes me question the inner circle.

[SouthBayDem]

28. The Japan ambassadorship was long a "retirement home" for political has beens

Walter Mondale and Tom Foley were the ambassadors under Clinton. Howard Baker was GW Bush's first ambassador nearly 15 years after retiring from the Senate. Caroline Kennedy was the second ambassador under Obama.

[Lulu KC]

29. meh n/t

[betsuni]

30. He's been a name in politics for decades and has the celebrity factor of being on ABC TV a lot.

He's famous enough. I have a different opinion from everyone else. I think his tough personality (and he can be funny and charming) will be fine in Japan (he's a man).

[murielm99]

38. I agree with you.

The groupthink in this thread is amusing.

[betsuni]

39. We are correct!

[murielm99]

43. If you live in Illinois, it will make more sense.

Most of our Democrats are scrappers. Obama understood that.

[area51]

31. What a good choice for a diplomatic post,

a guy who called liberals "fucking stupid".

[3catwoman3]

32. His bluntness will not be advantageous.

I am putting it "diplomatically."

When I was stationed there for 2 years while in the Air Force nurse corps, I remember many Americans having some difficulty with the unfailing politeness of the Japanese. One enlisted guy went so far as to say, "I'd rather have someone tell me to fuck off if that's how they feel." I remember thinking, "Gee, I wouldn't."

[dalton99a]

33. Well, Emanuel's brother knows about sushi.

[artemisia1]

34. No, just no. /nt

[Lord Ludd]

35. Fine with me

as long as you don't give him a job in DC.

[ShazzieB]

36. "Move him far away" is right.

Q. What do you call Rahm Emanuel 6,300 miles away from Chicago?
A. A good start.

(Adapted from an old joke about lawyers on the bottom of the ocean.)

[BlueMTexpat]

40. What an absolutely terrible

decision!

He is the most tactless a**hole of a**holes! He should be nowhere near a diplomatic post.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

42. Oh, this absolutely awful and racist Rahm Emanuel?

Link to tweet

[mahatmakanejeeves]

45. If anyone ever deserved to be "canceled," it's Rahm Emmanuel for covering up the murder ...

WormfreeHat Retweeted

If anyone ever deserved to be "canceled," it's Rahm Emmanuel for covering up the murder of Laquan McDonald.

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

46. The various "PopeHat" entity names

have just been hilarious.