Last night I was thinking about the Obama revolution, and how it’s going to work out. All societies face revolutionary fervors; and in a democratic society we deal with them the way we just did: we bring in a total…
First two names on New Republic’s Obama’s power list are David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel who supported Hillary till June 4, the AIPAC convention, then jumped, and obviously suffered no consequences. Some guys have all the fun. TNR points…
but The New Republic is suddenly deeply relevant again. Here’s its O-List, a list of Obama’s braintrust, advisers, good friends. I’m sure this is somewhat prescriptive–i.e., if I read it closely, I bet I could find many a hidden memo…
Richard Silverstein got a translation of the Maariv article about Rahm Emanuel’s father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, and says that it reports that his brother was killed by Arabs in Jerusalem when the doctor was about 7 years old. Silverstein: Thanks…
Former Palestinian advocate John Whitbeck argues that Obama’s apparent obeisance to the Israel lobby–appointing Emanuel– means that he will put off the “core” issue of American foreign policy till the second term. By then it will be too late to…
Yesterday one of my many moles inside the Council on Foreign Relations sent me the 2008 annual report. Beautiful cover. Rocks my world. You flip the book open and you see Jewish names. You see Larry Summers and Robert Rubin,…
Longish Amy Goodman show on where is Obama going in the Middle East, including smart comments from Ali Abunimah, that Obama had close connections with the Arab community in Chi-town but has now “painted himself into the corner” with the…
The Globe has this piece on Obama’s Harvard braintrust: Indeed, Hauser Hall, on the law school campus, could double as an Obama campaign outpost. The directory in the lobby includes half a dozen professors who have played the role of…
Oh my breaking heart. This is from Andrew Sullivan’s blog. A reader kvelling (Yiddish, sorry; I promise equal Arabic in days to come) about Emanuel’s “impeccable” credentials including the fact that his father was in the Irgun. But of course…