Meet Your New White House Chief Of Staff
November 5, 2008 at 1:17 pm
From a Newsweek report earlier this year:
Old Clinton hands still laugh about the night after Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election. In his book, “The Thumpin’: How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution,” Chicago Tribune deputy Washington bureau chief Naftali Bendavid writes that, as about a score of them sat around a picnic table mushily declaring their love for one another, Emanuel picked up a knife and called out the names of different politicians who had “f–––ed us.” After each name, Emanuel would cry out, “Dead man!”—and stab the knife into the table. Bendavid recounts that “Emanuel, jokingly called ‘Rahmbo,’ even by his mother, muscled weaker Democrats out of races in favor of stronger ones, and ridiculed the chairman of his own party.”
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