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Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 10:45 AM

The Moderate Voice: Obama Names Rahm Emanuel His Chief of Staff. So What Does It Mean?

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Clintonite and Congressman Rahm Emanuel has accepted Obama's offer to be his chief of staff. Like David Corn and Ezra Klein , I'm ambivalent about it. On the one hand, Emanuel hasn't exactly been an ally of the liberal-progressive elements in the Democratic Party. On the other hand, he's a tough, hard-nosed insider and aggressive partisan with White House experience. So what does his appointment mean? What does it signal with respect to the Obama presidency? Is Obama signalling that he prefers centrist Clintonism to progressivism, that he'll govern from the center and twist arms as required? Is Obama signalling that he'll be aggressively partisan with respect to Congress, that he's tough and ready to do battle? Is he signalling...
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