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WOOOOO! We did it! We won!Any by a landslide. Not only did Obama win a large majority of the national vote, he won 78% of the Jewish vote, and 95% of the black vote! (Watch this great video of Cornel West's personal take on Obama's win)
And on another totally awesome level, today Obama announced that he is choosing Rahm Emanuel to be Chief of Staff. How cool is that?He was senior adviser to Bill Clinton, he has a lot of experience in congress, he is very focused on having peace and stability in Israel and Palestine, holds a liberal arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College, he served in the IDF, he belongs to an Orthodox synagogue in Chicago, he was a gifted ballet dancer in his youth, his father was in the Irgun, and his brother is a talent agent in LA and inspiration for Jeremy Piven's character on Entourage.
Also, he's fucking crazy and I love it.
Some examples: He once mailed a rotting fish to a former coworker after the two "parted ways"; at the celebratory dinner after Clinton won the '96 election, he threatened all of Bill's enemies with a steak knife; when Clinton was dealing with the Lewinsky affair, Rahm apparently dropped an f-bomb on Tony Blair; ending a phone call to a candidate, he's quoted saying, "Don’t fuck it up or I’ll fuck you. I’ll kill you. All right, I love you. Bye."
Sounds like Ari Gold to me.
And he justifies it as well: “In my house, when you say ‘fuck you,’ it’s a sign of endearment.” “You guys are enamored by my language. That’s not all that I do.” He's also a proven Congressional leader and powerful political strategist.
This next term is gonna be sweet.
2 comments:
i think this rahm emanuel might have sleaze factor. his brother definitely does. he had to settle for 2.25 mil in court after allegedly making racist and homophobic remarks. he also let a friend operate a porn website using his employer's servers.
yea wikipedia
Yeah, it's possible, but I read that article too and the example they gave is that his brother denied a movie starring Wesley Snipes as a Marine because "everyone knows black people don't swim!"
To me, that may be racist, but it's not necessarily malicious, it's just idiotic (and kinda funny). If Ari Gold is actually closely based on the real guy, he's harmless.
And anyways, the stupidity of Rahm's brother doesn't necessarily say anything about him.
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