Rahm Emanuel

In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has told Chick-fil-A that the fast-food company is not welcome in his town because "Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values." In other words, because Chick-fil-A ownership believes in traditional marriage, it shouldn't bother opening up shop in Chicago.

Two revealing stories from today's Chicago Sun-Times. First, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is not welcoming Chick-fil-A to his city: 

Ben Smith has video of White House chief of staff William Daley dumping on his predecessor, Rahm Emanuel:

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Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's former chief of staff, is projected to become the next mayor of Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Rahm Emanuel has been elected mayor of Chicago. With 89 percent of the precincts counted, Emanuel has 55 percent of the vote. The Associated Press has declared him the winner of the race outright, avoiding another six weeks in a runoff.

The New York Times reports that national security adviser Jim Jones’s departure, long expected to take place at the end of the year, was accelerated because of “statements that he apparently made to Bob Woodward” that were reproduced in Woodward’s Obama’s Wars.

Ben Smith reports: 

Rahm Emanuel kicked off his campaign for Mayor of Chicago with a homecoming video, filmed in front of a bookshelf with a vase and a family photograph.

"I was born here and my wife Amy and I raised our three children here," he says. "I'm glad to be home."

Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol had some thoughts on former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's bid for mayor of Chicago, particularly the media's coverage of the subject:

On October 1, Rahm Emanuel announced his departure as White House chief of staff, ending the shortest and most hapless tenure in that position since Bill Clinton replaced his childhood friend, Mack McLarty, in 1994. McLarty is a nice guy who wasn’t tough enough to bring order to Clinton’s White House. Emanuel is a tough guy who wasn’t mature enough to bring good judgment to Obama’s.

Rahm Emanuel said on ABC's This Week that Rep. Joe Barton's comments on BP were "not a political gaffe. ... That is a philosophy."

Sarah Palin replied on Twitter:

And it makes Sestak look like a buffoon.

According to White House counsel Bob Bauer, Sestak was not offered a job as Secretary of the Navy--that job was given to Ray Mabus prior to Clinton's conversation with Sestak--but simply an uncompensated position "on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board."