If true, I’ve got the perfect job for her – reporter for the NYT.

While a lot of what he said is reassuring, this quote is somewhat disturbing.

As White House political director in the first Clinton administration, Emanuel orchestrated the famous 1993 signing ceremony of the “Declaration of Principles” between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Similarly, this appeared on Arutz Sheva

1. Emanuel Posed Rabin-Arafat Photo
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Emanuel Posed Rabin-Arafat Photo

Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama’s new Jewish Chief of Staff, was active in the Oslo negotiations and choreographed the Rabin-Arafat handshake at the White House.

“It was an emotional moment for him,” according to public relations consultant Richard Mintz, who worked with Emanuel. “He would like nothing more than to participate in another peace agreement signing.”

Israeli media Thursday morning celebrated the appointment of Emanuel, a Chicago, Illinois Jewish Congressman who was born to former Israelis. His father was a member of the Jewish resistance Irgun movement during the British mandate and the Emanuels named him after an Irgun member who died in action. The parents met in Chicago after the older Emanuel moved there from Israel.

The family has three children, all living in the United States, although Emanuel volunteered in Israel during the Gulf War in 1991.

Rahm Emanuel rose in the ranks of the Democratic Party by proving to be an outstanding fundraiser and was the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman in 1988. Emanuel impressed Bill Clinton during the 1991 presidential campaign and was appointed the campaign finance director.

Emanuel raised the colossal sum of $72 million, much of the money coming from the Jewish community, and the success catapulted him into becoming a senior advisor to Clinton after he was elected President.

Perhaps he has learned from his mistake then and will actually advise President Obama properly. However, he was named Chief of Staff, not Secretary of State.

Reports have surfaced in a number of places that John Kerry is under consideration for that post. That would really be frightening.

A quick google of the subject found a number of reports that Kerry is trying to get that post. We will have to wait and see what will happen.

For those frightened of what an Obama presidency might do, consider that it may be like the Carter presidency. Carter was needed to make things so bad that Ronald Reagan could become President and lead to the fall of the Soviet Union. Now that Vladimir Putin is trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union, perhaps four years of Obama are required in order to set up his successor (Sarah Palin anyone?)

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9939.shtml

Stop and think for a minute just how profoundly stupid and uneducated this woman would have to be not to know that Africa is a continent.

I think the fact that you believe this crap says more about you than the video says about Sarah Palin. It’s as bad as the rap that Dan Quayle got for misspelling potato.

And strangely, Joe Biden did not get the same kind of rap for declaring that Obama had a three-letter answer for America: “J-O-B-S.”

That one’s documented, bubelah. Find me absolute proof that Sarah Palin was caught on tape not knowing that Africa was a continent, and I’ll give you posting privileges here for a month.

Still, Tehran feels the Obama team represents potential new threats to Iran, analysts say.

In any case, it might be a tough sell to condemn a country whose leader’s middle name is the same as that of the prophet Muhammad’s grandson. Some in Iran entertain the theory that Obama, whose last name means “he’s with us” in Persian, is partially descended from Iranians who migrated to East Africa centuries ago.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran6-2008nov06,0,2054831.story

Do you truly believe that Sarah Palin could be the governor of Alaska–a state that effing BORDERS Canada–and wouldn’t know the makeup of the three states of NAFTA, when she lives in one and borders the second?

This is a hit piece, plain and simple. She doesn’t know that Africa is a continent? What is she, a moron?

How can you possibly refer to a video like that and expect me to take you seriously?

Do not in any way belittle or denigrate Obama’s accomplisment as the first black president of the United States. He deserves all the credit and accolades for that.

And so do the Americans who voted for him. I honestly didn’t think, two years ago, that a black man had a chance of being elected president. I thought it was too early.

I’m very glad to be wrong.

I’m really fascinated to know how you’ve managed to read my mind so well that you’re figuring out things I never thought. As for Obama’s choice of Rahm Emanuel, well, gee. Some of his best friends are Jewish. It remains to be seen what his actions on Israel will be. Deeds, not words, make the man.

Sabba Hillel, that would be an awesome race. I’m one of those people that doesn’t think Palin is the boob that so many people have portrayed her to be.