I went to college with Ram’s brother, Ari. Ari is now the most powerful agent in Hollywood.

The third brother, Zeke, is director of Bioethics at the National Institute of Health.

The brothers have the same archetype.

Chuck Todd just confirmed your belief that Rahm wants the “Speaker” job.
Would Nancy take a position in the Cabinet, if Obama wins?

Will there be a spot for Wesley Clark?

“John Walsh writing about Emmanuel at Counterpunch and “If Americans Only Knew” website.

http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh10142006.html

How Rahm Emanuel Has Rigged a Pro-War Congress
Election 2006: The Fix is Already In
http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh10142006.html

“Meanwhile, even though Duckworth has been the recipient of Rahm’s largesse, to the tune of $1.8 million, the same amount as her Republican opponent, her campaign has not taken wing. You get the picture. If you toe the line for Rahm on the war, the money rains on you like manna from heaven and you are elevated to national celebrity status. But if you are anti-war, Rahm cuts you off at the wallet.
Note that in each of these two cases Emanuel did not pick candidates based on a proven ability to raise money. Nor did he pick them for their ability to win. In Duckworth’s case she damned near lost despite the cash infusion, and McNirney did win despite the money that Emanuel funneled to his opponent. Emanuel is not choosing proven fundraisers or winning candidates; he is choosing pro-war candidates.”
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http://www.ifamericaknew.com/us_ints/po-rahm.html
Emanuel’s War Plan for Democrats
The Book of Rahm
What are Emanuel’s views on war and peace? Emanuel has just supplied the answer in the form of a scrawny book co-authored with Bruce Reed, modestly entitled: The Plan: Big Ideas for America. The authors obligingly boil each of the eight parts of “The Plan” down to a single paragraph. The section which embraces all of foreign policy is entitled “A New Strategy to End the War on Terror,” a heading revealing in itself since “war on terror” is the way the neocons and the Israeli Lobby currently like to frame the discussion of foreign policy. Here is the book’s summary paragraph with my comments in parentheses:

“A New Strategy to Win the War on Terror”
(”War on Terror,” as George Soros points out, is a false metaphor used by those who would drag us into military adventures not in our interest or that of humanity.)

“We need to use all the roots of American power to make our country safe. (He begins by playing on fear.) America must lead the world’s fight against the spread of evil and totalitarianism, but we must stop trying to win that battle on our own. (Messianic imperialism.) We should reform and strengthen multilateral institutions for the twenty-first century, not walk away from them. We need to fortify the military’s “thin green line” around the world by adding to the U.S. Special Forces and the Marines, and by expanding the U.S. army by 100,000 more troops. (An even bigger military for the world’s most powerful armed forces, a very militaristic view of the way to handle the conflicts among nations. What uses does Emanuel have in mind for those troops?) We should give our troops a new GI Bill to come home to. (More material incentives to induce the financially strapped to sign up as cannon fodder.) Finally we must protect our homeland and civil liberties by creating a new domestic counterterrorism force like Britain’s MI5. (A new domestic spying operation is an obvious threat to our civil liberties; MI5 holds secret files on one in 160 adults in Britain along with files on 53,000 organizations.)

There it is straight from the horse’s mouth.2
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RCongressman Rahm Emmanuel is a war hawk!
When Israel illegally invaded Lebanon and bombed the hell out of them here is Rahm’s response to Maliki calling Israel’s attack on Lebanon and act of “aggression”

“most recent evidence was his attack on the U.S. puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al Maliki, because Maliki had labeled Israel’s attack on Lebanon as an act of “aggression.” Emanuel called on Maliki to cancel his address to Congress; and he was joined by his close friend and DSCC counterpart, Sen. Chuck Schumer, who asked; “Which side is he (Maliki) on when it comes to the war on terror?” In terms of retired Senator Fritz Holling’s statement that Congress is Israeli occupied territory, Rahm Emanuel must be considered one of the occupying troops. And he certainly is a major cog in the Israel Lobby as defined by Mearsheimer and Walt. Nor is the idea that the Lobby exists and has tremendous influence on Middle East policy any longer a taboo in the minds of the general populace. According to a poll just carried out by Zogby International for CNI 5, 39% of the American public “agree” or “somewhat agree” that “the work of the Israel lobby on Congress and the Bush administration has been a key factor for going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran.” A similar number, 40%, “strongly disagreed” or “somewhat disagreed” with this position. Some 20% of the public were not sure.”

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This is an important article about Rahm Emmanuel.
http://www.ifamericaknew.com/us_ints/po-rahm.html

I sure hope someone creates the spot for Rep Dennis Kucinich as a Secretary of Peace. We need a “Dept Of Peace” This man sure deserves it. He led the way against the 2002 war resolution, has held so many informative hearings about Iraq, Iran (that the press barely covers) stood against the Kyl Lieberman amendment (the equivalent in the house)