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Obama: Emanuel would make 'terrific' Chicago mayor |
2010-09-10 |
[Arab News] President Barack Obama said his hard-nosed chief of staff Rahm Emanuel would make a terrific mayor of Chicago but expects him to wait until after the November congressional elections to decide whether to run. Mayor Richard Daley's surprise decision not to seek re-election on Feb. 22 leaves the door open for Emanuel, who has played a major role in shaping Obama's agenda but has also long coveted the Chicago mayorship. Obama made clear in a television interview aired on Thursday that if Emanuel decides to run, he probably will have the president's blessing and his vote. "The one thing I've always been impressed with about Rahm is that when he has a job to do, he focuses on the job in front of him," Obama told ABC News in an interview recorded on Wednesday. "And so my expectation is, he'd make a decision after these midterm elections." Emanuel's job as chief of staff gives him influence on advancing Obama's legislative priorities with Congress. He also oversees White House staff and determines who gets to see the president. Obama's interest in keeping Emanuel as a key strategist at least until the Nov. 2 elections could be another reflection of concern about his Democratic Party's dimming prospects. The president and his administration are scrambling to prevent big Democratic losses driven by voter anxiety over a stumbling economy and high unemployment. "He knows that we've got a lot of work to do. But I think he'd be a terrific mayor," said Obama, who votes in Chicago, his adopted hometown. Emanuel has until Nov. 30 to file his candidacy in Chicago. |
Posted by:Fred |
#11 Rahm Emanuel makes my skin crawl. I think he is capable of anything to achieve his ends. Hope Chicago breaks the cycle of corruption. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2010-09-10 14:02 |
#10 The Democrats are facing some interesting internecine conflict, which has been described as a gang war between the "Dion O'bama" faction and the "Hillary Capone" gang. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-09-10 12:27 |
#9 The Kiss of Death. (I Hope) |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-09-10 11:33 |
#8 "The White House wants *me* to be the next Chief of Staff?" |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-09-10 08:56 |
#7 But I think he'd be a terrific mayor That makes want to hurl chunks, at high velocity. |
Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-09-10 08:26 |
#6 Really, an encyclopedia ? Machine Politics from the Encyclopedia of Chigago As the younger Daley (soon to retire) readily acknowledged, radically different demographics and the attendant alterations in the political calculus clearly made the machine politics for which Chicago became famous an anachronism by the end of the twentieth century. Well, the anachronism is alive and well in the 21st century. |
Posted by: Goodluck 2010-09-10 07:14 |
#5 #1 This wacko wants to dissolve the counties and put us all under his magnificence and benificence as Cook County! Posted by anonymous2u Might as well. The Chicago tail has wagged the Illinois dog for many decades. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2010-09-10 04:26 |
#4 Sez the guy who skips town when the dc roads are too snowy. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-09-10 02:43 |
#3 I agree: he would be the crookedest mayor of the crookedest city ever! It's a great match! |
Posted by: Secret Master 2010-09-10 00:22 |
#2 Sure, Bambi - just like you make a "terrific" president.* *in your own little whiney mind |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-09-10 00:11 |
#1 This wacko wants to dissolve the counties and put us all under his magnificence and benificence as Cook County! |
Posted by: anonymous2u 2010-09-10 00:02 |