Who will be President Obama’s Secretary of Energy?

Hopefully someone from Jiffy Lube.  Or even Texaco.  We really do trust our car to the man who wears the star.

We keep reading that newspapers all over the country sold out today because of Barack Obama front pages like this in the Washington Post …

They’re quite tough to come by.  As for us, we’re still buying up all the Washington Posts that reported on the CIA dropping acid.

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.”

So would Rahm Emanuel be the first Jewish White House chief of staff?

Hardly.  Look no further than the current occupant of that position, Josh Bolten, for a Jewish chief of staff.  He was the second.  The first?  Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff Ken Duberstein.

A Barack Obama election day flashback…

Israel National News:

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama privately expressed his support for a new Arab state within Israel’s current borders, including eastern Jerusalem, during his meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah this summer.

According to a report published Tuesday in the Lebanese newspaper al-Ahbar, Obama told Abbas that he supports a PA state, and Arab “rights to east Jerusalem” as well.  The sources said Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad “heard the best things they ever heard from an American president” during the meeting. However, said sources quoted in the report, the candidate asked them to keep his declaration a secret.

PA spokesman Nimar Hamad said he had no comment on the remarks, other than to describe the briefing Abbas and Fayyad had given to the presidential hopeful. Later official PA reaction to the report categorically denied that Obama had made the statements attributed to him.

“The Palestinian Authority views the American elections as an internal matter and does not favor one person over another,” he said in an official statement. “The PA hopes that the next American president will fulfill his commitment towards the Palestinians and pressure Israel.”

Abbas, Fayyad and the rest of the Arab world are clearly hoping for an Obama victory, however. Hamas sources quoted in the article said that Arabs fear new wars would break out in the Middle East if Republican candidate Senator John McCain wins, but they believe there will be an official peace agreement with an Obama White House. …

We note below a poll showing Barack Obama hurting among Jewish voters.

Where else is this playing out?

Check out the below photo and caption:

US citizens living in Israel line-up to cast their ballots as they vote early for the US presidential elections at a cultural centre in Jerusalem on October 28. A poll conducted by the Rabin Center for Israel Studies found 46.6% of Israelis would vote for John McCain if given chance, while Barack Obama would receive 34% of votes. (AFP)

Surprising: It’s November 1 and it’s a beautiful 70-degree day in Northern Virginia.

More surprising: It’s November 1 and Northern Virginia is presidential campaign battleground Ground Zero.

Even more surprising still: the Democratic presidential ticket is pushing an anti-tax message here.  Then again, we took this picture in McLean, somewhere near Colin Powell’s house.

… he might consider putting this on national TV, roadblock-style again.