Meet the new face of the Obama White House. A little McClellan-esque for my taste.
This is my favorite Robert Gibbs moment of the campaign, when Mark Halperin got surprisingly tough on him about the Obama-Ayers relationship. He's also well-known for a pretty decent shouting match with Sean Hannity. Below is what the ferocious spinning will look like for the next four years.
Update: Here's Rahm Emanuel saying his family life might keep him from a second run in the White House. Video at the link.
Emanuel is a serious and sometimes mercenary partisan, but he's no ideological lefty, often picking and backing Blue Dog Democrats to the dismay of liberal activists. It's certainly a bit of a P.R. snafu for the new Obama White House that its first publicly named pick may be turning them down, very publicly.
Meanwhile, Emanuel's father, speaking about his son's possible new job, apparently didn't get the message about hope and change:
In an interview with Ma'ariv, Emanuel's father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son's appointment would be good for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."
