Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff in the White House? We can do A LOT better than that.

* Rahm Emanuel has advanced pro-war Congressional candidates (e.g., the 6th district Democratic primary race in 2006 between Christine Cegelis and Tammy Duckworth) and his track record for picking Congressional candidates is pockmarked with pro-war Democrats who lose in the general election.

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/74401/index.php

* Rahm Emanuel is a pro-corporate whore. As Joshua Frank commented: "Emanuel is a shameless neoliberal with close ties to the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), even co-authoring a strategy book with DLC president Bruce Reed. Without Emanuel, Bill Clinton would not have been able to thrust NAFTA down the throats of environmentalists and labor in the mid-1990s. Over the course of his career, Emanuel's made it a point to cozy up to big business, making him one of the most effective corporate fundraisers in the Democratic Party."

There's more. Quoting Democracy Now - "According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Emanuel was the top recipient of donations from 'hedge funds, private equity firms and the larger securities/investment industry' in the 2008 election cycle."

http://zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticlePrint/19380

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/7/headlines#5

* Rahm Emanuel has been anti-immigrant. He has urged Congressional Democratic candidates to "move to the right" on immigration and has worked in the past with Republican xenophobic congresspersons. In 2007, a coalition of liberal blogs and immigrant rights' groups demanded accountability from Emanuel.

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/11/rahm-emanuel-il-05-accountability.html

http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/rahm-emanuel-immigrant-bogeymen-and-nafta-profiteers/

* Despite being a Democrat, Rahm Emanuel is a foreign policy warhawk. Democracy Now! reports: "[Emanuel] has vocally backed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and its 2006 attack on Lebanon." Emanuel also supported the 2002 Congressional resolution giving authorization to George W. Bush to proceed with war in Iraq (which Barack Obama voted against).

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/6/headlines#2

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/nichols2?rel=rightsideaccordian

Chicago Indymedia has also chronicled repeated protests of Rahm Emanuel's Chicago congressional office for his pro-war stances.

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/76623/index.php

http://tinyurl.com/6qmszv

The Real News Network has two short films online about Rahm Emanuel:

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2749

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2747

And there's this excellent article from Chicago Free Speech Zone, summarizing Emanuel's interactions with the Chicago peace movement:

http://chicagofreespeechzone.blogspot.com/2008/11/rahmbo-vs-chicago-peace-movement.html

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Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff in the White House? We can do A LOT better than that.

* Rahm Emanuel has advanced pro-war Congressional candidates (e.g., the 6th district Democratic primary race in 2006 between Christine Cegelis and Tammy Duckworth) and his track record for picking Congressional candidates is pockmarked with pro-war Democrats who lose in the general election.

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/74401/index.php

* Rahm Emanuel is a pro-corporate whore. As Joshua... (read more)