Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, and Other Thuggish Concerns Regarding China, Google, Goldman Sachs & Charlie Crist
by Ken Layne 7:49 am April 20, 2010
Terrifying Chicago thug and life-saving superhero Rahm Emanuel made it official last night: If Richard Daley doesn’t run again, Rahm wants to be Mayor of Chicago. “That’s always been an aspiration of mine,” Rahm told Charlie Rose during a secret televised conversation, “even when I was in the House of Representatives.” Now who will Eric Massa fantasize about in the shower? [Chicago Tribune]- Clever Internet terrorists in China got access to a vast supply of secret Google information by getting a single Google employee to click a link in Microsoft Messenger. Do Google employees know about Gchat? Also, is this why everybody’s Gmail is getting hacked? [New York Times/The Awl]
- How bad is Goldman Sachs? Super-duper poopy bad, very gross, lousy and not good. That is one verdict, from financial journalists. [Daily Finance]
- Looks like poor old Palm Beach bachelor (who is now married!) Charlie Crist will have to run as an Independent against *his own party* because he’s not wingnut-teabag enough for the GOP fringe in Florida, even though he’s a popular governor. So let’s all support Charlie Crist, against the Republican idiots! [NYT]
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Gettin out while the gettin’s good eh Rahm? you sly muthafukka.
Charlie, we hardly blew ya’.
Rahms gonna’ kick sum Windy City gangster ass. Do.not.fuck.with.this.Jew.
Charlie Crist: everything Joe Lieberman ever wanted to be and more.
First of all, I don’t know anyone who can stand Charlie, (policy-wise), he’s done nothing to reform the criminal property insurance or property tax sitch here in FL. and is widely hated for it. Rubio is a wingnut’s wingnut who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security…In Fl. Look for Kendrick Meek to possibly pull this out and win as Senator from America’s penis.
Goldman Sacks is the mere tip of the poopy iceberg that nearly sank the SS World Economy. Lots more folks to go after.
Interesting that any problem with Internet security is ultimately Microsoft’s fault.
Everyone’s gmail is gettin’ “hacked” because people click on links within messages with nonsensical subject lines. If it ends in .php and it makes no sense or you aren’t expecting it. DON’T CLICK IT.
Let’s leave Chicago to the Eskimos
That town’s a little bit too rugged
For you and me you bad girl
I guess Crist’s slogan “Is An Oompa-Loompa Gonna Hafta Marry A Bitch?” didn’t catch on.
No way does Crist run as an indy – Republicans are going to be vampire squids about the seat, and any Republican has his price. They’ll offer him a plum lobbyist/spokesman/latino pool boy spot and he’ll drop.
[re=560013]freakishlystrong[/re]:
“Rubio is a wingnut’s wingnut who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security…In Fl. ”
The olds will do him in in the general election.
As someone who used to live in Chicago, a long time ago, by which point he had already been in office a very long time, I can tell you that Rahm is going to have to pry Daley’s mayorship out of his cold, dead hands.
Better hope for a heart attack, or a scandal that actually lands him in jail (because there’s no way he’s losing an election).
I love how he looks like Adam Arkin with a thyroid condition and has the people skills of a disoriented wolverine.
The list of folks who want to be the “next mayor of Chicago” if/when Daley leaves is about 10000 names long at this point. Daley’s buried more political careers than Capone buried rival mobsters at this point. But Rahm’s got about as good a chance as the other biggies, ranging from Bobby Rush and Jesse Jackson Jr. through Jan Schakowsky and the Latina State’s Attorney for Cook County.
I’ve been thinking all along that Crist running as an Indy helps Meek. But the more I think about it, the better a Crist as GOP Lieberman sounds – so as long as it isn’t Rubio, I think Dems will consider it a win. What’s bizarre is how the GOP is so busy trying to look like they are on the winning side (ie bandwagon jumping) with Rubio that they seem blind to his huge general election problems. Making him the center of the GOP basically means they have no intention of passing any legislation next cycle, either.
Sorry, Rahm but you got to be way fat to be a successful Chicago Mayor. There was one skinny Chicago Mayor elected in the last half a century — Jane Byrne. And she got tossed after one term. So don’t burn any bridges yet, if you get my drift.
[re=560044]norbizness[/re]: You say that like those are bad traits in a Chicagoan, especially a mayor. People there have a unique edge that can be delightful to witness (as long as you stay out of range of the knife fight that ensues). Emanuel is the distilled essence of Chicago with a splash of Israeli arrogance/machismo thrown in for flavor.
Tell me more of this Chicago. It sounds like a magical place. I haven’t even thought about Chicago since Jim McMahon and the Bears made that awesome hip-hop video.
Fuck me. Has it been 25 years?
The SuperBowl Shuffle – 1985
“If Richard Daley doesn’t run again” Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha don’t we all wish.
Eric Massa can’t fantasize about himself, ’cause God knows no one else is.
[re=560134]Potater[/re]: That’s “can,” retard.
[re=560042]JMP[/re]: I can tell you that Rahm is going to have to pry Daley’s mayorship out of his cold, dead hands.
Haven’t you ever seen Entourage?
[re=560042]JMP[/re]: No way Daley would ever land in jail, unless the evening news caught him on camera murdering his kids while eating kittens. CPD’s in his pocket too. Rahm used to be my Congressman, and he would NEVER win the mayor’s office. He is not well liked in Chicago. Good chief of staff choice, though. When you need some arms twisted, Rahm’s your guy.
[re=560044]norbizness[/re]: “the people skills of a disoriented wolverine”! I love it!
Now who will /I/ fantasize about in the shower?
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[re=560013]freakishlystrong[/re]:
Never underestimate the power of the I-4 corridor retards. Here in Tallahssee it is easier to believe that the state is filled with somewhat reasonable people, but Central and Southern Florida are peopled with a different breed of cat altogether.
[re=560016]coolcatdaddy[/re]: Interesting that
anyvirtually every problem with Internet security is ultimately Microsoft’s fault.Fixed.
Rahm would be a great mayor of Chicago — he could get them the Olympics!
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