How many people knew anything about the White House Chief of Staff before yesterday? Who even knows who the current one is?

Rove was demonized by the left, but the fact is that the CoS is an inside-baseball kind of job, and they work for the President. It's not the other way around.

Obama's bipartisan rhetoric isn't "let's appoint moderates to every single position". It's more like "let's listen to what the opposition has to say and see if we can find a middle ground".

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/11/obamas-pick-for-chief-of-staff.html

Great....another I-bank shill. Just what we need.

And so the pendulum swings as far to the left as it has been to the right.

Rove was an utter douche, but don't blow 'change' smoke up my arse and hire the same kind of douche with a different platform but the same mentality.

The middle gets abandoned again.

I truly fear the response the Right will bring in 2016. Imagine for a second a team worse than Bush/Cheney/Rove.

This is like if McCain had won, and he picked Karl Rove as his chief of staff. Doesn't Obama's bipartisan rhetoric behoove him to appoint moderate democrats and moderate republicans to these top spots? Just sayin

Oh yeah, Emanuel is a great choice. Obama needs a tough, enforcer to back him up. And the GOP shouldn't complain after we had to put up with Rove for so long.

Interesting tidbit... The character of Ari on "Entourage" is based on Rahm's brother Ari, who is an agent in Hollywood.

It's a good thing Rahm Emanuel isn't being put in charge of anything important.

I'm sorry S.D. but Michelle Obama makes Nina Simone look like Oprah by comparison (and yes,I'm aware Nina is no longer with us.)

Give me a break. Emanuel knows the House inside and out and will be a strong liason between the WH and the Hill. And Obama's more of a good cop. He knows what his strengths are, and he's picking people who have strengths where he's weaker. That's just smart management.

The GOP is whining about partisanship when they had Karl Rove pulling the shots for the better part of a decade. The only response that deserves is Bitch, please.

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Rahm Emanuel?

Sh#t - is he jew?

Wasn't this jerk a ballerina or something?

From Wikipedia:

Emanuel held a seat on the quasi-governmental Freddie Mac board, which paid him $231,655 in director’s fees in 2001 and $31,060 in 2000...During the time Emanuel spent on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandal involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities…

Damn Democrats got balls...

Good choice. Not necessarily a good choice for any available job, but Chief of Staff? Absolutely.

I'm not a huge Emanuel fan, but the notion that Obama would and can pick all fresh faces for his cabinet is ridiculous. Of course he needs some Washington insiders on his staff. He plans on getting things done. They know the system.

From what I read, Obama is seriously considering adding a couple of republicans like Chuck Hagel and/or Dick Luger to his staff as both a display of bi-partisan politics and demonstrating that he wants the best people working with him, democrat or republican. This should be interesting. Stay tuned.

This guy Rahm looks like a zombie. VanessaNYC I always knew you preferred dark meat.

Emmanuel has helped Obama from the beginning. I think he's a good choice. And chronyism is relative when compared to the texas goold ol' boy politics we were subjected to 8 years ago.

So Chicago might get an olympics, at least we aren't boming baghdad again.

Is Obama trying for the best-looking administration. First Obama, now Rahm. Us left-leaning ladies are swooning.

How dare a Democrat appoint a Democrat as part of his administration.

good move, they'll need him to deal with pelosi