Barak Obama’s chief of Staff
Born and raised in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel only saw “military service” once, when he volunteered to rustproof brakes on Israeli—not American—vehicles during the first Gulf War. He opposes terrorism, but only the Islamic kind—his father was a member of the Zionist terrorist group Irgun, which gleefully murdered British civilians in Palestine during the 1930s and 40s. Since my veins flow with British rather than Israeli blood, my instincts flow negatively toward Emanuel and his father because of this.
Rahm Emanuel
Before researching this article I didn’t know much about him, only that I hated his face. Dark-brown, anus-like circles rim his lifeless eyes. His smirk is so tauntingly smug, I feel like smacking it all the way back to the Dead Sea. His overall appearance is vaguely reptilian, but if forced to specify a reptile, I’d choose the bearded dragon lizard. Based on no evidence whatsoever, I also suspect that he smells rather oniony—perhaps even garlicky.
When it comes to matters of the soul, I believe the noble thing is to defer to those of higher character, so I asked two people I admire greatly to share their feelings toward Obama’s recently departed Chief of Staff and, if things go as expected on February 22, Chicago’s next mayor.
The first person I quizzed is a friend of great humor and ample generosity who has never so much as slightly irritated me in the nearly two decades I’ve known him—a miracle where I’m concerned. He voted for Obama. When I asked for his impressions of Rahm Emanuel, he used the words “asshole” and “dick.”
My second interviewee was my mother-in-law, a pure Georgia snowflake who dropped from heaven and is one of the two or three most guile-free humans I’ve ever known. It’s nearly impossible to imagine her disliking anyone. She votes Republican. When I queried her about Rahm Emanuel, she squinched her nose, shook her head, and said, “No, I don’t like that man.”
So it isn’t just me.
In respect for the Fairness Doctrine, I tasked myself with finding something to like about him, no matter how trivial. It could even be some stupid hobby. He could be a basket-weaver or a juggler or have a penchant for wearing funny mustaches on weekends—I don’t care. I wanted to hear something that humanized him rather than validating my suspicions that he’s even more of an emotionless cutthroat robot-shark than Hillary Clinton.
“The City of Big Shoulders may soon be ruled by a Man with Small Fingers.”
For two days, I gorged myself on Rahm Emanuel. I lived, breathed, slept, ate, and smelled Rahm Emanuel. I read over 100 articles about him and watched about two dozen videos featuring his rubbery grey lips moving in live action to discern whether there was anything that would quell my desire to see him get hit by a truck full of Muslims.Nope. Nothing. There’s absolutely nothing to like about him. I tried—I swear upon all three of Western monotheism’s Gods, I tried.
He says “fuck” a lot, uses the word “retarded” as a slur, sends disgusting things to his enemies in the mail, threatens people while in the nude, and is known for an explosive temper. But I recuse myself from judging him about any of those things, for I am guilty of all of them. Still, I dislike him.
He’s the kind of guy who farts on-camera and doesn’t even apologize. When the president of the frickin’ US of A asks him to stop cracking his goddamned knuckles, he squeezes in a few last cracks right in the Commander in Chief’s elephant-sized ears.
That’s a jerkoff as far as I’m concerned. A putz. A schmuck. A schmendrick. As someone asked on a comment board regarding Rahm, “What’s the Hebrew word for ‘douchebag’?”
My animus for Rahm Emanuel has nothing to do with him being Jewish, though mentioning the fact that he’s Jewish—or even not mentioning it, but daring to criticize anything about him—is to beg for a 100MPH “anti-Semitic” fastball to be rocketed into your catcher’s mitt quicker than you can say, “Nathan’s Hot Dogs.”
But there’s a difference between being Jewish and being an asshole about it. So let’s get the Jewish schmutz out of the way. The man’s name is Rahm Israel Emanuel, for fuck’s sake. That’s WAY too theocratic of a name for someone to hold public office. I’d have the same objections if the politician was named Jesus Christ King or Muhammad Ummah Jihad. Referring to Emanuel’s Jewishness, ADL director Abe Foxman said, “He has never hesitated it to wear it proudly on his sleeve.” That’s nice, but if I wore my whiteness proudly on my sleeve, you’d paint a swastika on it.
Born and raised in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel only saw “military service” once, when he volunteered to rustproof brakes on Israeli—not American—vehicles during the first Gulf War. He opposes terrorism, but only the Islamic kind—his father was a member of the Zionist terrorist group Irgun, which gleefully murdered British civilians in Palestine during the 1930s and 40s. Since my veins flow with British rather than Israeli blood, my instincts flow negatively toward Emanuel and his father because of this.
Although a severe minority statistically, Jews are said to contribute half of the Democratic Party’s total monetary haul. As if Barack Obama were a shiny pet pony, Emanuel famously trotted him before AIPAC in 2008 to receive the Zionist interest group’s benediction as their chosen presidential candidate.
When Obama appointed Emanuel as his Chief of Staff in 2008, Rahm’s ex-terrorist father Benjamin said, “Obviously, he’ll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to be mopping floors at the White House.” When Arab groups complained, Rahm offered this hollow apology: “These are not the values upon which I was raised or those of my family.” It was his own family member expressing those “values,” and Emanuel’s hawkish war policies have led to thousands of Arab (and goyish American) deaths in the Middle East.
While campaigning for Chicago mayor, he has sternly warned that pensions and jobs need to be slashed. He also eagerly slashed jobs while making a reported $16.2 million as an investment banker in his fleeting couple of years between working for Clinton and running for Congress. He clocked $320,000 merely for having to attend a half-dozen yearly meetings at Freddie Mac during the reputed height of its corruption. He also destroyed American jobs and bankrupted ordinary Americans as a cheerleader for NAFTA, Obamacare, the banking bailout, and the trillion-dollar-and-counting Middle Eastern war extravaganza.
In a recent Chicago mayoral TV ad, Emanuel had the audacity to say that it’s high time politicians started working for the people’s benefit rather than the people working to make politicians rich. His matzoh balls were big enough to say that politics “isn’t about making sure that those who are best connected or have friends are getting jobs.” This is from a man who climbed under, up, through, and over the Daleys, Rezkos, and Blagojeviches to achieve national prominence. Even though he was rated DC’s second-most corrupt politician, we’re to believe this former ballet-dancing midget will bring honesty back to the Windy City.
When I saw this video of Emanuel—who, as a Congressman, received more than twice as many campaign dollars from shady financial hedge-fund types than anyone else in the House or Senate—deliver a smarmy “love letter” about greedy oil companies, I rolled my eyes. So you side with rapacious banksters rather than rapacious oil barons—how noble! Then, when I learned he’d lived rent-free for five years in a DC apartment owned by a British Petroleum client—possibly influencing the Obama Administration’s sludgy response during the BP oil spill—I realized he was born without a core and would snuggle with the oil companies, too, if he got a free condo out of it.
So after doing my research, I hate his soul even more than I hate his face. He’s so full of shit, it oozes out of his ears like muddy shampoo.
After two relentlessly unpleasant days of poring over articles and pictures, I finally started noticing his fingers. They’re tiny. I found myself obsessively freeze-framing YouTube videos to try and gauge his fingers’ size. Despite how “tough” everyone says he is, Emanuel is a diminutive man—he’s officially listed at 5’7”, but some allege that he is unfairly “heightening” with shoe lifts and might only reach 5’4” on a good day in his bare feet.
His right hand’s middle finger was amputated during a meat-slicing mishap in Emanuel’s teens, but even the digits surrounding it seem partially amputated. Fully extended, his index finger still appears shockingly small. Gesticulating to a reporter on the Chicago campaign trail, his fingers seem no larger than Vienna sausages. If it didn’t belong to a man in his fifties, I’d guess that his thumb belonged to a child. Even with the fingers on both hands fully extended, he’s coming up way short.
All along, he’s been acting precisely like a guy with tiny fingers. The City of Big Shoulders may soon be ruled by a Man with Small Fingers. If they choose to elect such a Napoleonic tyrant, that’s their problem.
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