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"... I hope it helps to keep you doing your great work:  like outing Orszag - yet another traitorous psychopath dragged out into the sunlight!  Brilliant work!!"  

 

So, who is Peter Orszag?
(Beware:  Prepare for a train wreck.)

The CV of Obama's Budget Director:

- Advisor, Russian Finance Ministry During the Reign of the Jewish Oligarchs
- Advisor, Central Bank of Iceland -- Before the Crash of 2008
- Advisor, Rahm Emanuel and Bill Clinton on the disastrous NAFTA bill that devastated U.S. manufacturing

One of the key players in the Obama administration’s $900 billion economic stimulus package is Obama’s new budget director Peter R. Orszag.  Orszag, 40, is the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the arm of the White House responsible for crafting the federal budget and overseeing the effectiveness of federal programs.  He worked closely with Rahm Emanuel in the Clinton administration - when the disastrous NAFTA was passed - and was one of the first Obama appointees to be approved.

Peter Orszag (left) worked with Rahm Emanuel in the Clinton White House as he now does under Obama.

”In the coming years, no bureaucrat will be as decisive as Peter Orszag,” Ezra Klein wrote recently in The American Prospect.  So, who is Peter Richard Orszag and what kind of decisions will he make with the budget he controls? (Based on his background one would be well advised to prepare for a financial trainwreck.)

Oddly, Orszag’s background has received virtually no attention in the media.  At this critical moment, however, it would be foolish to ignore the troubling background of Obama’s budget director, which deserves to be looked at very carefully.  Orszag, for example, could start by explaining exactly what happened to the Icelandic economy.  Orszag was, after all, the founder and president of the economic consultancy firm which advised the Central Bank of Iceland - before it went bankrupt.  How did Icelandic banks become so indebted?  Ask Peter Orszag.

Orszag is an economist who served six years in the Clinton administration (1993-8) under Robert E. Rubin, the former treasury secretary who recently resigned from his senior position at the woefully mismanaged and nearly bankrupt Citigroup.  The fact that Orszag was a protege of the now disgraced Rubin certainly does not bode well for the Obama administration.

Rubin strongly opposed the regulation of derivatives when such regulation was proposed in 1997.  Credit derivatives of mortgage-backed securities were the key reason for the recent failure of a number of large financial institutions, including AIG and Citigroup.  

In 1999, Rubin joined Citigroup as a board member and a participant "in strategic managerial and operational matters of the Company.”  The Wall Street Journal noted that Citigroup shareholders suffered losses of more than 70 percent since Rubin joined the firm and that he encouraged changes that led the firm to the brink of collapse.  In December 2008, investors filed a lawsuit contending that Citigroup executives, including Rubin, sold shares at inflated prices while concealing the firm’s risks.

Orszag, a Jew, served on the president’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1993, under Rubin, when the Israeli Rahm Emanuel, Clinton’s senior adviser, was pushing the disastrous NAFTA legislation through Congress.  Prior to joining the Clinton team Orszag was an economic adviser for the Russian Ministry of Finance in Moscow from 1992-93.  This was a period of rampant financial criminality during which many Russian mineral assets came under the control of the so-called Jewish oligarchs who became instant billionaires.  Most of these oligarchs fled Russia when their crimes were exposed and now live in Britain or Israel, where they obtained citizenship.

Born in Boston on December 16, 1968, Orszag graduated from Princeton University in 1991.  He then attended the London School of Economics, where he earned a degree in 1992 and where he obtained his PhD in 1997.  The London School of Economics was established by members of the Fabian Society, who believed in advancing socialism through gradual reforms.

The Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of Social democracy via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means. The ideology of the Fabians is said to be described in the quote, "Fabianism feeds on Capitalism, but excretes Communism."

In 1998, after serving in the Clinton administration, Orszag co-founded an economic consulting group company with his brother and Joseph Stiglitz called Sebago Associates, where he served as president through 2007. The firm's clients have included the World Bank, the Nordic Council of Ministers, and most notably, the Central Bank of Iceland.  The once prosperous economy of Iceland has been devastated by the current economic crisis, which its citizens say was carried out by a gang of financial criminals who followed disastrous policies and advice - provided by Peter Orszag and Company.

Americans need to be vigilant with dangerous "Young Turks" like Peter Orszag and Rahm Emanuel running the Obama White House and the U.S. budget. 

 

"Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.' ”
Rahm Emanuel, Obama White House Chief of Staff
"Obama’s Partisan, Profane Confidant Reins It In," New York Times, 24 January 2009

 

It should come as no surprise that the New York Times article by Mark Leibovich fails to mention Emanuel's Israeli roots -- or the fact that his father was a member of the most murderous Zionist terrorist group in Palestine in the 1930s and 40s -- the Irgun.  The New York Times is the leading Zionist-controlled newspaper in the United States by virtue of the fact that it has been controlled by the Sulzberger family, founding members of B'nai B'rith (Jewish Freemasons) Lodge No. 1, for more than one hundred years. 

Rahm Emanuel is actually named after two Irgun (or LEHI) terrorists:  one named Rahamim (Rahm), and the other named Emanuel.  The Times clearly considers this information that it would prefer the reader not know.  This is a perfect example how the Zionist-controlled media controls public opinion by omitting important information.  The same controlled media also fails to investigate the evidence of Emanual's involvement with the impeached Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, in the activity that lead to Blagojevich being removed from office.  Blagojevich specifically told Larry King that he wants the tapes of his conversations with Rahm Emanuel released.  Why aren't they?

 

The only possible bump on the charm-paved Rahm Road is the ongoing investigation and prosecution of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for putting Obama’s vacant Senate seat up for the highest bidder. Emanuel has acknowledged conversations with Blagojevich, but the media seems remarkably uninterested in the contents of those wiretapped discussions, willing, it seems, to take the Obama White House’s assurances that all is well. Bush should have been so lucky.

- "Defusing the Rahm Bomb," by Fran Coombs, 29 January 2009

RAHM EMANUEL:  OBAMA'S ISRAELI CHIEF OF STAFF AT THE INAUGURATION


Rahm Emanuel, the Israeli Chief of Staff of the Obama administration, showing his class at the inauguration.  Emanuel, the son of a member of the Zionist terrorist group, Irgun or LEHI, reveals the attitude of Israelis to international law.  Rahm Emanuel carries the names of two terrorists:  Rahm is named after an LEHI terrorist who was killed in an operation and his family name came from an uncle who died in another terror operation in the 1930s.  Is this the real face of the Obama administration?  Will this person, who runs the Obama White House, demand that Israel be held accountable for the war crimes committed in Gaza?


Barack Obama visits the Israeli settlement of Sderot.
People who wonder why the Zionist-puppet Obama had not condemned the Zionist criminal aggression of Gaza should look at the following photos from July 2008 of candidate Obama with Ehud Barak (left), the Israeli defense minister running the criminal assault on the defenseless population of Gaza.

Note:  Sderot, an Israeli settlement with a population of some 12,000 immigrants, lies one kilometer from the Gaza Strip.  Sderot was created from the former Gevim-Dorot transit camp. Most of original residents were Kurdish and Persian Jewish immigrants who lived in tents and shacks.  In 1954, Israel began building permanent structures.  Moroccan immigrants comprised 87 percent of Sderot's population in 1961 with 11 percent immigrants from Kurdistan.  In the 1990, Sderot absorbed a large number of immigrants the Soviet Union in the 1990s.

As Barack Obama supported Israel's perverse right of "self defense" in 2008 against the legitimate resistance of the native Palestinian population forced into exile in Gaza by the Zionist ethnic cleansing of 1948 and subjected to constant Israeli aggression and blockades, the Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak could clearly be seen laughing in the background. 
See CNN footage to see Barak laughing.

 

Why is this man laughing?   Rahm Emanuel, Obama's political handler and new chief of staff, is an Israeli whose father is a member of the most notorious terrorist group in Israeli history.  How long will the controlled media ignore Emanuel's family ties to Zionist terrorism?  Do Americans, the people forced to fight and fund the fraudulent, violent, and costly "War on Terror" even care?

If you appreciate the information found in my articles, please send a donation. My latest article is about Joseph Adam Ereli, the Israeli national and son of a Hagana terrorist in the U.S. State Department.  Ereli is Israel's point man in Iraq, where he oversees the application of U.S. policy in the region.

Joseph Adam Ereli (right) is an Israeli and the son of a Hagana terrorist.
  Ereli oversees U.S. policy in Iraq and the Persian Gulf.  Why do Americans allow Israelis to hijack U.S. foreign policy?  Why is Ereli's Israeli nationality not considered a threat to national security?  Why does the controlled media ignore the many Israeli dual-nationals in positions of power in the U.S. government?

Ereli's father, Eliezer Kaplan (changed to Ereli) fought with the Zionist terrorist organization, the Hagana.  This son of an Zionist terrorist has been controlling U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East for two decades.  Like the other Israelis I have exposed:  Rahm Emanuel, Michael Chertoff, and Daniel Samuel Senor, this U.S. official is an agent produced by the Israeli military intelligence network that was sent to the United States in the 1950s.  These people are Zionist agents who were raised to control the U.S. government.  This is very serious infiltration that cannot be ignored by real Americans.  We can't allow foreign agents in high places to destroy our country.

 

I compare the current condition of the U.S. ship of state with the huge oil tanker Sirius Star, which has been taken over by Somali pirates and is being held for ransom in Somalia. 

The Sirius Star, with $100 million of Saudi crude,
was hijacked by a small band of Somali pirates. 

The United States government is like the Sirius Star -- except our ship of state has been taken over by a gang of organized Zionist and Israeli pirates.  The difference is that our American ship of state has been taken over by an organization (like Quantum in the latest Bond film) that most people don't even know exists.  This organization was created by members of the pre-Israel Zionist terror groups, the Hagana, Irgun, Lehi, and their Mossad network.  Members of these groups were sent to the United States in the 1950s to raise dedicated Zionist agents that would look and sound like Americans but think like Israelis.  In this way Zionists have taken over the government and media of the U.S.S. America without the passengers or the crew even noticing.   The only thing that most Americans notice is that the voyage is not as smooth as they had expected and the ship is sinking.  The Zionist-controlled media assures us, however, that all is well and the ship is on its correct course.  Dream on.

Americans and others need to realize that Israeli intelligence is like the criminal organization in the latest James Bond film:  They are everywhere, supporting politicians on both sides of the aisle, creating and running governments from the left and the right (including your own), yet you don't even know they exist!  Over the past 6 decades, Israeli agents have infiltrated every agency of the U.S. government and have access to all of the critical computer networks.  My next article is in the same vein as my revelations about the senior Israeli agents Michael Chertoff, Rahm Emanuel, and Dan Senor.

 

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Commenting on my article about Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama, an American supporter sent this note, with his donation:

Keep researching and writing. Eventually, even the sheeple will have to take notice. Your article on Emanuel is a treasure. I was stupefied after reading as I watched a ten-minute segment on him on The McLaughlin Group - you'd think they were talking about a Kansas farm boy. No background info.

 

"No background info" is exactly how the controlled media covers Rahm Emanuel, Bernard Madoff, and every other Zionist criminal.  This is the fundamental difference between my articles and those of the controlled media -- I provide the background material that matters.  This is also why I was attacked by undercover police at my home in 2006, maliciously prosecuted, and forced to go into exile. 

Emanuel, an Israeli citizen (from my hometown) who employs Chicago gangster tactics, will be the next chief of staff of the executive branch of the U.S. government.  You simply will not get the information in my article from any other journalist.  CNN and the other controlled media will not even broach the subject of Emanuel's Israeli roots.  In order to understand what the Obama administration will mean for America and the world, however, it is essential to understand the immense Zionist power and money behind Obama.

Can Obama deliver change with so many Zionist strings attached?

 

When one considers that Obama has been financed and supported by the biggest Zionists in America since 1992 it becomes clear that John McCain was merely playing the role of a presidential candidate, i.e. he was a fake candidate whose real purpose was to allow his opponent to win.  This can only be understood when one realizes that both political parties in the United States are completely controlled by Zionist money.

 

John McCain, who would have been the oldest president ever, was not meant to win.  His only purpose was to make the rigged presidential race look like a real political contest, which is one of the fundamental deceptions of U.S. politics.  The other is that our votes are actually counted.

More than 31,000 people have read the following article about Obama's chief of staff, the Israeli son-of-a-terrorist Rahm Emanuel, yet very few have responded to my appeal for donations.  I realize that times are  seemingly tough with the Zionist-manufactured "credit crunch" (if you are not a Zionist billionaire like Sanford Weill of Citigroup, Maurice Greenberg of AIG, or Stephen Feinberg of Cerberus (GMAC and Chrysler) on the receiving end of the $2 Trillion bail-out). 

I need more support than this to cover my costs.  It takes a great deal of time and money to produce these articles.  Do you work for free?

 
Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars from the $2 Trillion bail-out have gone to criminal organizations run by these two Elders of Zion:  Sanford Weill, head of Citigroup, and Maurice Greenberg, head of A.I.G.  Both are sons of Jewish immigrants from Russia/Poland and certainly high-level Freemasons in the B'nai B'rith, the real-life Elders of Zion.  Why are their dodgy  and criminal enterprises bailed out with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars while Amtrak, the woefully inadequate American passenger railroad system, is not given a penny to build new infrastructure, rolling stock, or stations to serve the American people?  These fraudsters should be in prison -- not bailed out at taxpayer expense!

Rahm Emanuel: The Israeli
Who Will Run Obama's White House

Rahm Emanuel is a political gangster named after a Zionist fighter who belonged to the Stern Gang, which was a terrorist organization linked with the Nazis.  Before moving to Chicago, his father was an active member of this terrorist group of assassins and bombers, which was also known as LEHI.  Don't expect to hear this information on CNN.  The controlled media censors these disturbing, but important facts.

"Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff" is the headline of a November 6 article in Ha'aretz, the Israeli newspaper.  The Israeli editors at Ha'aretz proudly proclaim that Obama's first pick was "Israeli Rahm Emanuel" to run the next administration.  Americans should be aware that Obama's chief of staff will be an Israeli, with terrorist roots and a clear loyalty to the state of Israel.

Emanuel's father, Benjamin, told Ma'ariv, a Hebrew language Israeli paper that his son's appointment would be good for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," the Jerusalem Postreported.  "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House." Rahm speaks Hebrew and spends most summers in Tel Aviv his Israeli father proudly told Ma'ariv.

Although the Israeli Emanuel has been named as Obama's chief of staff, none of the Zionist-controlled media outlets in the United States seem as open as the Israeli press to discuss Emanuel's family roots with the Nazi-linked Zionist terror gangs in Palestine in the 1930s and 40s. Naftali Bendavid of the Zionist-owned Chicago Tribune, for example, has written a book about Emanuel and spent a great deal of time with him but completely avoids his Israeli roots in the Tribune article he wrote on November 6. 

Bendavid wrote that Emanuel "is best known as something of a Democratic political assassin" who "might not appear to be the obvious choice for White House chief of staff for a president-elect who speaks eloquently of setting aside partisan differences and bringing the country together." 

Emanuel uses Mafia tactics to threaten people.  He once mailed a rotting dead fish to a campaign pollster who had not produced results to Emanuel's liking.  Sending a dead fish to a person is a well-known Mafia message meaning the recipient will "sleep with the fishes" unless he or she heeds the warning. 

Don't expect the controlled media to tell you the whole truth about Emanuel's family ties to real assassins.  To get an idea of who Emanuel really is, I recommend my 2006 article, "Son of a Zionist Terrorist -- Rahm Emanuel's Dirty Secret."

Emanuel even left the United States to serve in the Israeli army in 1991.  A person from any other nation would automatically lose his U.S. citizenship for serving in a foreign military.  Why do we let Israelis run our government?

What will it take to remove people like Emanuel and Michael Chertoff from their positions of power to prevent them from damaging our American republic more than they already have?  The Zionist agents in our government are in the process of accumulating power and not afraid of showing it or using it.  This is a very dangerous development.  Americans should be aware that Emanuel behaves more like a gangster than a political adviser.

"The night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . .. Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you." 
- "The Enforcer," Rolling Stone, Oct. 20, 2005

Americans should be aware that this violent and uncouth Israeli will be running the White House under Barack Obama.  The chief of staff effectively controls the people around the president -- he decides who sees him, what he hears, and what he knows.  The people surrounding the president report to the chief of staff. Emanuel will be the intellectual handler of President Obama (a continuation of the role he has played for years) and the controller of the White House.  How do you think having an Israeli gangster with terrorist roots running the White House will affect U.S. relations with Iran, Russia, the Palestinians -- and the rest of the world?  And Emanuel is just the tip of the iceberg.

NAMED AFTER A TERRORIST

Emanuel's father said Rahm is "the namesake of Rahamim, a Lehi combatant."  LEHI, a.k.a. the Stern Gang, was the most radical Zionist terrorist group in the 1940s.  The Stern Gang killed scores of British soldiers and assassinated Lord Moyne and Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations envoy from Sweden, as well as hundreds of innocent Palestinians such as the civilian population of Deir Yassin.  This Zionist terror group was allied with the Nazis in their war against the British.  Both of Emanuel's parents, Benjamin Emanuel (formerly Auerbach) and Marsha Smulevitz, lived in Israel and both are related to Lehi fighters.  This is to say that Emanuel's father, a Jew, fought with the Nazis.  While this may be difficult for people who have a distorted Hollywood-view of Zionist history to understand, it is a fact.

The Brothers Emanuel: Ezekiel, Rahm or Rahamim, and Ariel with their father Benjamin Auerbach (changed to Emanuel in memory of his brother who was allegedly killed in an Irgun "reprisal" operation in 1933). Ben was an active member of the Stern Gang, a Zionist terror group allied with the Nazis which is known for a series of political assassinations, massacres, and bombings.  Why would a dedicated Zionist, who was born in Jerusalem and who fought in a terrorist organization to create the Jewish state, move to Chicago after the creation of the state of Israel?  After the failed "Lavon Affair,"  a series of false-flag terror attacks in Egypt, Israeli intelligence chief Yossi Harel sent scores of high-level agents to the United States, often with an American spouse.  The Emanuel family is one of them; the Chertoff family is another.  There are many more.

Rahm Emanuel is the same Israeli who ran the White House under Bill Clinton, although he did not have the chief of staff position.  He is the person who pushed through the disastrous NAFTA legislation.  It should be remembered that it was during the Clinton administration, while the president dallied with his chunky Jewish girlfriend, that the foundation of the Zionist terror network that pulled off 9-11 was laid. Now, Emanuel, the son of a terrorist and assassin, will be back in the Oval Office.

Emanuel has controlled Obama for years.  Emanuel's brother Ariel is Michael Moore's agent.  The day after the election, Moore joked about Emanuel's appointment on the Larry King Show.  Moore, a Zionist shill, made a film about 9-11, produced by the Weinstein brothers, that completely avoided mentioning the many Israeli connections to the terror attacks.  This is an excellent example of how the "alternative" media is just as controlled by Zionist Jews as the so-called "mainstream" media.

David Axelrod ran the Obama campaign.

Saltzman's father, Philip M. Klutznick, was Israel's biggest supporter in Chicago.  Klutznick, who passed away in August 1999, was the former president of B'nai B'rith International (1953-59), president of the World Jewish Congress, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, vice-president of the Jewish Welfare Board, a founder of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, president of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and vice president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, among other things.

Philip Morris Klutznick, ca. 1944
"The friend of 6 U.S. Presidents," Klutznick fostered
the Obama campaign through his daughter Bettylu from 1992 until his death in 1999. 

Klutznick was one of the developers of Israel's port of Ashdod.  As a developer in Chicago, Klutznick created the suburb of Park Forest, developed three Chicago-area shopping malls, and built Water Tower Place on Michigan Ave., in downtown Chicago. 

Candidate Obama with his long-term handler David Axelrod, who writes his speeches and instructs him on how to act.  Obama has been created and controlled to such a degree by Jews that some writers have described him as the "Goy Golem," a slave created by his Jewish masters to destroy their enemies.  According to the Jewish Kabbalah, a Golem is a man-like monster created from mud and conjured up by a rabbi to destroy any and all enemies of the Jews..

Axelrod and Emanuel have been creating the Obama image since 2003.  "For four years Axelrod has had camera crews tracking virtually everything Obama has done in public -- chatting up World War II vets in southern Illinois, visiting his father’s ancestral village in western Kenya -- and there were days when the camera crews have outnumbered the civilians," Ben Wallace-Wells reported in the New York Times article of April 1, 2007.

CHANGE?

In October I warned readers that the Obama ticket was really a hard-core Israeli ticket in disguise.  In my article "Colin Powell: Liar & War Criminal Endorses Obama" I advised my readers of the Israeli gangsters behind Obama:

Powell's endorsement of Obama, a puppet of the Israeli Rahm Emanuel, has less to do with Obama's African roots than it does with getting Emanuel and his Zionist gangsters back into control of the Oval Office.  Emanuel, the real boss of the Democratic party is the son of a real Israeli terrorist (Irgun and Lehi) and thug-in-chief of the party.
 

What can we expect from the Obama presidency?  Elected on a platform of "Change" after 8 years of an unpopular and dictatorial regime, we would expect to see changes of the disastrous policies of the Bush administration. 

What changes will we see?  Will we see an end to the costly and illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ?  Will the senior officials of the Bush administration who willfully lied to start these wars of aggression be held accountable for their war crimes?  Will we finally have a proper and independent investigation of 9-11? Will the ghoulish Israeli Michael Chertoff be fired and his oppressive Department of Homeland Security dismantled? 

If the war criminals are not held accountable and the most egregious criminal policies of the Bush administration are not changed and reversed – what exactly does the Obama "Change" slogan mean?  Changing the curtains?  Changing the Israelis in the White House?

The appointment of Rahm Emanuel, Clinton 's senior advisor, to run the Obama White House does not look like a positive change.  I was hoping for someone like Michael Jordan to be the next secretary of state.  Rather than Israelis like Emanuel, we need people like Jordan in power to turn our national game around.

Michael Jordan would be an ideal U.S. Secretary of State.

Jordan is impressive, has a strong strategic mind, and knows how to win against incredible odds.  We've seen him do it many times.  He is articulate, greatly admired around the globe -- and he can fly. Under Barack Obama and old foreign policy hand Sen. Joe Biden, who could possibly be a better representative for the new administration than Michael Jordan?  (Of course, Jordan would probably refuse to work with a nasty fellow like Emanuel, but he could stuff the Israeli.)

 
Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls 

Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff

A day after his historic election to become the first black American president, Barack Obama stepped into the role of president-elect yesterday, inviting Rahm Emanuel to join his administration as White House chief of staff, Democratic officials said.

Emanuel, a former Bill Clinton adviser, is the son of a Jerusalem-born pediatrician who was a member of the Irgun (Etzel or IZL), a militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948.

Obama intends to announce key cabinet and staff staff members in the next few days to ensure a swift transition to the White House in January, which would allow him to deal with the global economic crisis as quickly as possible.

If Emanuel accepts, he will return to the White House, where he served as a political and policy adviser to Clinton . Emanuel is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives as the Democratic Caucus chairman.

Emanuel knows Obama from his hometown Chicago and headed the special team that planned the midterm elections in 2006, in which the Democrats recaptured a Congressional majority.

Emanuel also served as inspiration for the fictional character Joshua "Josh" Lyman, the deputy White House chief of staff, played by Bradley Whitford on the television drama "The West Wing."

Obama is expected to appoint loyal advisers and aides to central cabinet and staff positions, as well as experienced officials from the Clinton administration and a few prominent Republicans to enhance his intention to bridge political gaps.

Several Democrats said Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the party's 2004 presidential nominee, was actively seeking appointment as secretary of state in the new administration.

They said Obama would issue a written statement announcing that his transition team would be headed by John Podesta, who served as chief of staff under Clinton; Pete Rouse, who has been Obama's chief of staff in the Senate; and Valerie Jarrett, a friend of the president-elect and campaign adviser.

One of the most talked-about appointments is the Treasury Department secretary. The names most mentioned for this post are former Clinton administration Treasury bosses Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin. Or Obama might keep Secretary Henry Paulson.

Other candidates include a former Summers deputy, Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , and billionaires Warren Buffett and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The president-elect had breakfast yesterday with his wife and daughters, then left his house for a workout at a nearby gym. Aides said he intended to visit his campaign headquarters later in the day to thank his staff.

Obama has 10 weeks to build a new administration. But his status as an incumbent member of Congress presents issues unseen since 1960, when Democrat John F. Kennedy moved from the Senate to the White House.

Rahm Emanuel's father, Benjamin, yesterday refused to comment on the report that his son was appointed White House chief of staff. He told Haaretz that he would only comment after speaking to his son.

"Obama is a pro-Israeli leader and will be a friend to Israel ," he said, adding that he was pleased with Obama's election. He also said his son is the namesake of Rahamim, a Lehi combatant who was killed.

Emanuel is very color conscious; the tie is Israeli blue...


...which Obama and Biden also seem to prefer...


...just like George W. Bush.

 Finis

Sources and Recommended Reading

Bendavid, Naftali, "Rahm Emanuel mulls chief of staff role in Barack Obama's administration," Chicago Tribune, November 6, 2008

Bumiller, Elisabeth, "The Brothers Emanuel," New York Times, June 15, 1997

Green, Joshua, "The Enforcer," Rolling Stone, October 20, 2005

"Emanuel to be Obama's chief of staff," Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2008

Klutznick, Philip M., Biography from Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774-1989 (1990), edited by Robert Sobel, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT

"Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff," Ha'aretz
November 6, 2008

Wallace-Wells, Ben, "Obama’s Narrator," New York Times, April 1, 2007 

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