And - Mr. Emanuel Calls Us "F—ing retarded"

By PETER WALLSTEN

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's liberal backers have a long list of grievances. The Guantanamo Bay prison is still open. Health care hasn't been transformed. And Wall Street banks are still paying huge bonuses.

But they are directing their anger less at Mr. Obama than at the man who works down the hall from him. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, they say, is the prime obstacle to the changes they thought Mr. Obama's election would bring.

The friction was laid bare in August when Mr. Emanuel showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides. Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul.

"F—ing retarded," Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items.

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Now he thinks we're really fucking retarded.

still mightily offensive.

Unless you can show where he says, "You liberals are all fucking retarded".

But no one ever accused Rahm of being smart.

FAIL.

how the right-wingers always stick together, and seem to get what they want in the end. Isn't it possible that the inability we Dem's have to disagree without disparaging each other alienates us all even further?

Mr. Emmanuel's comment is kind of an oxymoron then- imo. yet still accurate.

:shrug:

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to commemorate the Brown victory.

if true...he didn't call *us* "F—ing retarded."

Just saying...

I hate that crap.

n/t

is the headline.

"Calls"? Like yesterday?

At least, in the text they report that the WSJ reports Rahm supposedly said that ... in August.

and I have never supported one thing she says! These guys must really be feeling it to speak out in such an uneducated manner. So sad. I hope Obama is listening to his people. Maybe a head should roll. It has been over nine years since anyone has been fired in DC. I think it's time.

office down the hall from the President.

That tells me that there's something really f---ed up at the White House.

Obama's brain. fuck Rahm Emmanuel.

Rahm does just the opposite to Obama.

I don't know what is.

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Stay classy, Rahm!

Really a crude choice of words.

Since the pukes' conservatism would undoubtedly be much more to his liking.

That's what they do.

Ergo, use the Democratic Party to achieve selfish political ambitions which are less likely to be realized by affiliating with the Dark Side. Sellout doesn't even begin to describe such a person.

But there are plenty of people who couldn't get into the R's country club, who would never let us get within sniffing distance of THEIR country club.

Hey Rahm, it's called civil disobedience, which is essential in a Democracy, so I'm not a bit surprised to see a fascist make such a claim.

The man lives in a bubble built by his own denial... and we all, regardless of political leanings are paying for it.

It's an ableist slur.

End of story.

the asshole.

a phone call, to bully him into voting for HCR last month

those who got him where he is because of their money, sweat and votes is really what a stupid person would do and also a person who has not studied history to learn its lessons.

It is a slur, plain and simple.. as bad as the n-word! My opinion of Rahm wasn't high to begin with now it has sunk even lower!

who is sucking the life out of the Obama Presidency. Just go away, Rahm! :grr:

Wonder if the RW noise machine will pick up on the fact that a hated Dem just used a slur that may people with intellectual disabilities equate with the N-word?

http://www.r-word.org

Naaaaah. Remember, it was Rush the OxyMoron who mocked Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's on the air... :eyes: