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2:17 PM, Aug 16, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERFormer White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says Barack Obama should stick with Joe Biden as the vice president.
Read more... 10:40 AM, Jul 26, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERIn 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.
Read more... 3:44 PM, Mar 8, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENBarack Obama's campaign has released the trailer for its 17-minute documentary, titled "The Road We've Traveled."
Read more... 9:41 PM, Feb 22, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERRahm 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.
Read more... Another Friday, another Obama adviser gone.12:02 PM, Oct 8, 2010 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
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.
Read more... 2:31 PM, Oct 4, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPERBen 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."
Read more... Lessons to be learned from Rahm Emanuel's departure. Oct 11, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 04 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
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.
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