Obama Rahm-a

Rahm approached for White House chief of staff? The Chicago Way Obama administration rears its ugly head:

"Emanuel is among the most vitriolic and partisan people in American politics," said Alex Conant, a Republican National Committee spokesman. "Reports that Obama wants him to be White House chief of staff undercut any claims to unity and bipartisanship, and should alarm every voter."

I should say. They might have to hide the knives. From an earlier post quoting a Salon piece:

That night, on the northwest side, Rahm Emanuel was elected to Congress. A former Clinton whiz kid who'd gotten his start as a fundraiser for Mayor Richard M. Daley, Emanuel was connected -- in the three years after leaving the White House (where he'd helped push through NAFTA), he earned $16 million putting together Wall Street mergers. He was also zealously partisan. He had once owned a consulting business devoted to finding skeletons in Republican closets. At a Clinton victory dinner in Little Rock in 1992, Emanuel celebrated by reciting a hoped-for necrology of Democrats who had "fucked" the president-elect. After every name, he stabbed a steak knife into a table and screamed, "Dead man!"

He's a practitioner of vulture politics and a great buddy of Barack's. They share a hardball style. But what about that lurking Dem sex and corruption scandal, hmm Rahm?

What does this say about Barack Obama's judgment and character? (Especially after that boneheaded pick of Joe Hidin' Biden) Oh sure Hope and Change--the Obama Rahm-a duo is suspect.