November 7th, 2008 | 
Author: Rahm Emanuel: Mitt Romney 'Turns A Blind Eye' To The Middle Class
www.huffingtonpost.com11/20/11
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had some harsh words for Mitt Romney Sunday, saying the Republican presidential candidate "turns a blind eye" to the middle class.
Priest and nun tag-team Rahm Emanuel – Tim Mak – POLITICO.com
www.politico.com12/1/11
He reportedly takes some ribbing over a decision to cut off a Chicago nonprofit's free water.
Obama’s choice of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff is in some ways mind boggling.
Emanuel is a combative Chicago congressman supremely versed in the ways of the White House and Capitol Hill and he will have one of the biggest voices in the new administration. He is a bare-knuckled Chicago politician who is not only well known for his ability to say ‘no’ but also for his often expressed vulgarity and Obama once joked at a charity dinner that when Rahm Emanuel severed his middle finger, “it almost rendered him mute”.
In a statement announcing Emanuel’s appointment Obama said, “No one I know is better at getting things done than Rahm Emanuel”, to which Emanuel replied that he was heeding Obama’s call because “I want to do everything I can to help the new administration”.
Lots of Republican’s have a problem however with how Emanuel gets things done and he has sparked numerous conflicts with many of them causing the House Republican leader John Boehner to comment, “This is an ironic choice for a president-elect who has promised to change Washington, make politics more civil, and govern from the center”.
Emanuel, who reportedly once sent a Democratic consultant a dead fish issued a statement saying “I want to say a special word about my Republican colleagues, who serve with dignity, decency and a deep sense of patriotism,” Emanuel said in a statement. “We often disagree, but I respect their motives. Now is a time for unity”.
So ‘what’s mind boggling about this?’ you may well ask.
Well a quick look at Rahm Emanuel’s roots and history reveal things that may startle many in the middle east and probably all around the world.
Rahm was born in Chicago, Illinois and his name Rahm Emanuel is Hebrew.
The name Rahm means “high or lofty” and Emanuel means “God is with us”. He was named ‘Rahm’ after a slain Lehi combatant and ‘Emanuel’ after Rahm’s paternal uncle, Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in a skirmish with Arabs in Jerusalem.
* Lehi -= “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”, was a militant Jewish underground movement during the time of the British mandate.
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Actually the selection of Emmanuel was not a surprise at all, for obama had him on the short list for months but decided to keep this fact under wraps because Emmanuel wanted to remain neutral out of respect for the Clintons. Secondly Obama is not nor ever been an enemy of Israel as some people believed; this was part of the Republican strategy to divide and conquer which they had better give up in this day. I, however, remain American Independent!