Emanuel re Obama: "he’s probably more realpolitik, like Bush 41"

If I had to put him in a category, he's probably more weasel

I'd go with insufferable, soulless asshole douchebag. :hi:

Obama is governing like a Republican would. And that's straight from the WH.

So the next time one of the apologists starts berating me for saying this, I'll refer them to the WH Chief of Staff.

:shrug:

Yeah, that statement is pretty unclear. :eyes:

Again: If you have an issue, take it up with the White House Chief of Staff.

However, please note that both my advanced degrees were gleaned from State Universities. Therefore, in the world of the democratic ruling class, my opinions don't count unless they are decidedly Pro-Executive Branch.

I'm in the same boat. Sociology and English from a State University. But I don't support the DLC, therefore I'm a troll, or some such thing.

FLOATING all that well these days!! I am so sick of this "going along to get along" and it will ruin the DNC if they don't wake up!!

I will NOT apologize for being a liberal and I CAN READ! Unfortunately, the handwriting on the wall looks very skewed to me, skewed to the RIGHT by the party I once LOVED!

You've got a like minded person in me.

I get sort of lonely here at times. ;) :toast:

scraped!! Leaves everywhere, and landscaping clean-up BIG TIME! But the very worst, trimming the bougainvillea!! I've been doing a little here and there, but jumped in with ALL fours today and I'm just about too tired to eat!

Glad that my husband is away dealing with some business because I'm sure I wouldn't be cooking OR even going anywhere to get him something to eat! Southern guys like home cooked dinners, and he's a picky eater!

So, having said that, I'm headed to my bath to soak and then plop my butt down for the evening! But I'll BE BAAAAAACk!

Glad to hear from you again, and yes we do think alike most of the time! Actually almost all of the time!! I'm a little curious about your name, but since I probably won't be back until tomorrow, it will have to be put on hold!
:hug:

My guys learned that this time of year, all bets are off, and when the boys were little, hubby pitched in more. Now take-out from their favorite deli is okay.

I still cook, but leftovers, etc., just may be what they have to choose from, whether they like it or not. :hug:

BTW my best friend in Grad School (Clinical/Physiological Psychology) had earned her bachelors in English from Penn State. English? Please forgive my numerous grammatical errors? If it wasn't for her excellent and thoughtful editing of my papers, I would haven't have finished my thesis. :blush:

times when I hurry a post and then look back and see one or two errors. Makes me cringe!! Many times I'll just point out my very own mistakes right after the post! However, each has their own style and some don't ever use caps or much punctuation, and that's fine! Texting is a code of it's own too!

While I generally don't call out others for their mistakes, I really get upset when I do it. However, there have been times when I've pointed out an obvious error! I noticed one the other day when we had our little thing going, but I just let it go at the time. So you see, it DOES bug me because I remember exactly what at least one of my errors was!

Okay, "outta" here for now! I stink!!

Bush 41 is hardly the worst (I actually don't think, as Republicans go, he was all that awful myself), however saying that he is like a Republican in a certain respect (REALPOLITIK- whatever THAT is) is a far cry from saying that Rahm and/or Obama are really Republicans/Republican-loving. Did you see how he humiliated/outshone House Republicans at their own retreat??? Or that he passed HCR over their unified opposition??? Has he switched parties and I didn't realize it? I know that he is probably more conciliatory than many of us towards Republicans but he sure has got a funny way of *loving* him some Republicans and/or trying to emulate them.
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If you have an issue, take it up with the White House Chief of Staff. All I did was quote him. That you're unwilling to accept that statement from the WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF is your problem, not mine.

...and you gotta wonder why Rammit feels the need to show the Nazis so much love.

to get an important treaty passed, which only happens with 8 Republican Senators on board.

:think:

and realize that Rahm was not calling Obama a Republican is YOUR problem, not mine.

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Rahm was saying that his style of governing is similar to that of Republican President Bush 41. He did not say that he was enacting Republican policies.

do you deny this?

Do you deny that the Obama DoJ has gone to the wall to defend bogus neocon policies?

Please. You need to stop spinning. You're going to make yourself sick.

Which is what Emmanuel is talking about. You're basically accusing Emmanuel of a Freudian slip.

:rofl:

Just who does Rammit Emanuel think crap like this helps?

It's a foreign policy story. Beyond that, the comparison with Bush 41 is attitudinal, not policy-based.

None of which will prevent the mindless here from saying Obama is a Republican, as we've already seen.

Like the great social scientist Neil Young used to croon about Pappy:

We've got a thousand points of light
For the working man
We've got a kinder, gentler
Machine gun plan

... Keep On Rocking In The Free World!

that old broken clock thing.

Emanuel is another Dem genius who couldn't be bothered reading the details about IranContra, Iraqgate, BCCI and CIA drugrunning. Oh yeah....he worked for Clinton who helped protect the secrecy and privilege of Poppy Bush by deepsixing the serious outstanding matters in all his criminal operations. So, Emanuel is probably quite familiar with the coverup.

I fear that Obama really doesn't GET the REAL history of the 80s and 90s, and Emanuel is in the perfect position to MISLEAD on those matters.

so if he's a moron (which I agree with) what's that say about Obama for appointing him?

and other Clintonites who worked in the Clinton WH protecting Poppy Bush and his cronies throughout the 90s.

The continuity of the coverup continues, in the spirit of Moving Forward Looking Ahead cold bloodedly.

outburst. We must all bend over backward to APPEASE THE GOP for the sake of BIPARTISANSHIP.

The man behind the curtain SAYS, "Rahm's little tirade outbursts are made accidentally, on purpose." :evilgrin:

rather than a failed Fascist Republican would be inconceivable, if not fucking retarded. (I say failed as in service to the American people. Bush1 was very successful in who he was really serving, as were his successors.)

of his own approach to me. I.e., triangulation. A losing proposition. And Bush 41 as a political mentor?

Gack.

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rather than his son, who who's "evil, stupid and insane?"

Yeah, we're much better off now! :evilgrin: :nuke:

"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched."
-- George H.W. Bush to reporter Sarah McClendon in 1992

It doesn't.

No, he didn't say Obama's policies were like Bush's. He was clearly trying to build that association.

Even if it was for short term political gain, statements like these, paired with the administration's actions, show a clear window into their thinking that Bush I and Reagan style conservatism are desirable things to be associated with, while Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich and Progressivism are things to distance themselves from.

From his famous Clinton post-victory rant. We're supposed to be impressed with the "toughness" of a guy with zero backbone & zero convictions?

that guy?

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