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Brothers: Rahm Emanuel and His Family

Rahm, Zeke, and Ari Emanuel have become very successful in different fields—politics, medicine, and Hollywood. But it’s hard not to notice the similarities among the brothers. They’re all intense, pugnacious, and in perpetual motion.

By Susan Baer Published Thursday, May 01, 2008

From the May 2008 issue of Washingtonian

The joke among the Emanuel brothers is that Zeke, the eldest, is bringing the family down.

That would be Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, 50, chair of the department of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Zeke is an oncologist with a master’s from Oxford, an MD from Harvard, a PhD in political philosophy from Harvard, and a 27-page CV that includes fellowships, professorships, books, and numerous awards and honors.

“Ari and I tell Zeke: ‘You haven’t done squat for the family,’ ” says Rahm, the middle brother.

That’s because Zeke hasn’t had a TV character based on him, as have Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman and former Bill Clinton adviser who was said to be part inspiration for White House aide Josh Lyman on The West Wing, and Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, the model for lovably trash-talking agent Ari Gold on HBO’s Entourage.

But part of being one of the hyperkinetic Emanuel brothers is being relentlessly competitive. So Zeke points out that the charge against him is not entirely true. The eldest brother notes that he was a participant in a British reality TV show during his Oxford days. “They loved to hate me there because I was the American on the team, the loud American.”

Loud, like his brothers. And impatient, intense, and successful. Three hard-driving superachievers in one family is kind of like having the Eiffel Tower, Washington Monument, and Statue of Liberty all in one town. People often ask their parents, Benjamin and Marsha Emanuel, what was in the water in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, where the family lived. Benjamin, an Israeli immigrant who still has a heavy accent, says there was no magic to their child rearing. He and his wife just paid a lot of attention to their kids.

“If you figure it out, let me know,” says Marsha, who at age 74 still works as a psychiatric social worker. “I honestly don’t know. I do know there was a lot of love and affection and treating them all like they were intelligent babies.”

The three brothers, less than four years apart, have risen to prominence in three different fields—medicine, politics, Hollywood. But it’s hard not to notice similarities: the wiry frame and dark hair (in varying degrees of volume and gray), the big personalities, the headstrong nature that lands each of them in the headlines and with their share of enemies.

Rahm, 48, is the best known—at least on the East Coast. Now the fourth-highest-ranking Democrat in the House, the three-term congressman gets much of the credit for his party’s success in the 2006 elections, when he raised lots of cash—sometimes by threatening candidates and browbeating colleagues—as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Appointed to that post in 2005, he rattled House Republicans who recognized that for the first time in a while “there was a killer at the helm of the Democratic Party,” says Rahm biographer Naftali Bendavid. “He really, really, really wants to win—whatever it is—and he’ll go to extraordinary lengths to do it.”

The stories of his ruthlessness, honed in the rough world of Chicago politics, are legendary: sending a dead fish to an associate with whom he’d had a falling-out; plunging a steak knife into a restaurant table as he denounced political adversaries; flashing his right middle finger, especially disarming because the finger was severed by a meat slicer when Rahm was a high-school student working at an Arby’s.

Rahm, who was President Clinton’s political director and an original member of the 1992 Little Rock “war room,” admits he’s driven in part by a fear of failure. “You’d bring shame to the family,” he says, only partly joking, in his Capitol hideaway office that’s filled with family photos. “I always tell the staff failure is not an option. You never give in, and you never give up.”

Zeke, who commutes to Washington from his home in Chicago every week, says that his staff jokes that it’s a good thing he’s in the office just three days a week. A pioneer in the field of end-of-life care who’s been an NIH chief for the past decade, Zeke has been a passionate voice for healthcare reform. He’s been so outspoken that he’s had to issue caveats making clear that he speaks for himself only and not as a government official.

“We don’t accept the current circumstances as somehow given,” Zeke says of the brothers. “We’re always challenging. We want to know, ‘Can it be better? Let’s make it better.’ It often comes across as we don’t respect authority a lot.”

Ariel, or Ari, the youngest at 47, has held up his end. He broke off from International Creative Management to start the Endeavor Agency in Beverly Hills and has turned it into one of Hollywood’s most successful talent agencies. Ari’s clients include Larry David, Aaron Sorkin, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Martin Scorsese. He called on Hollywood to blacklist Mel Gibson after the actor’s drunken, anti-Semitic tirade in 2006. He denounced Disney chief Michael Eisner after the mogul tried to prevent distribution of Fahrenheit 9/11, made by Ari’s client Michael Moore.

“It’s not what you’re supposed to do as an agent,” says Rahm, suggesting that his brother has more soul than the TV character based on him.

In the family room of the middle-class suburban home where the boys grew up and where their parents still live is a wall of black-and-white photos of relatives, most of whom never made it to America. One of the photos is of their father’s brother, Emanuel, who was killed in the 1936 Arab insurrection in Palestine. Benjamin’s parents changed the family’s last name from Auerbach to Emanuel in their son’s honor. In the middle of the wall, in a frame, is a crocheted money belt that the boys’ great-grandmother wore when she emigrated from Russia.

“There’s nothing subtle in Jewish families,” Rahm says. “It was my parents’ way of reminding us of our fortune of being here, the sense that it’s a privilege and an honor to be in this country, and that that can’t be wasted.”

Rahm says his parents also gave their children two seemingly contradictory thoughts—“one is to always challenge authority; the other is to always respect it.”

Their father, a pediatrician who moved to the States from Israel in 1959, devoted himself to public-health matters in Chicago, helping to get lead paint removed from houses, treating poor immigrants for free. As a young doctor trying to build a practice, he quit the American Medical Association over its position on national healthcare. “Not exactly the brightest move in 1962 when you’re trying to raise three kids,” says Rahm.

Their mother was a civil-rights activist in the early 1960s. She ran the north-side branch office of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, and occasionally, if she didn’t expect violence, took the boys to civil-rights marches with her.

“Early on, she wasn’t present in our lives,” says Rahm. “She was in jail.”

There was always extended family living with them—“nerve-racking for me but extremely helpful for the children,” says their mother. It was a loud household where the parents encouraged reading and debate, held monthly meetings at which anyone could say anything, and gave each son 15 minutes of “only child” time each day.

The Emanuels taught the boys to swim by the time they were 18 months old, made them all take ballet lessons, and had no qualms about pulling them out of school for trips all over the world.

Rahm describes dinner-table conversations, which often included his large and opinionated grandfather, a six-foot-four meat cutter from Moldavia, as political free-for-alls. “You had to get ready for dinner conversations at our house,” the congressman says. “You didn’t just come down to dinner and say, ‘How was your day?’ You either came ready or you got shut out.”

Comments

The institution of POTUS by design will force and sign something. This is the only context where POTUS will say “Victory”.

The real question is physical survival after POTUS breaks the health care system. Government as we speak is

- destroying incentives,
- squandering resources,
- dis-employing enough people

that our culture cannot pay for the health insurance program. POTUS will not fix the medical system, but they will break it.

The responsible culprits will retire with untold money and live beyond all accountability for their malfeasance. Think for example Zeke Emmanuel, brother to Rahm with potentially raking off several hundred million personal dollars.

Actual people will have to care for their health outside the dysfunctional government rationed system, using their meager remaining money after confiscatory taxes. Perhaps a barter system will be required because of the inflation being planned.

I do not have solutions to staying alive yet, but am working on several ideas. Here are a few:

- Veterinarians (I already get pet meds at a Kroger Pharmacy),
- Self help methods like common in the United States before about 1950,
Underground economy payments to Doctors and Nurses in cash
(like illegal abortions used to be),
- Folk healers, Shamans, Witch Doctors,
- Travel to Mexico, Uruguay, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand for individual service,
- Barter of value for services with practitioners,
- Backroom beds converted into hospital beds like unlicensed Day Care,
Many more.

I welcome comments and postings to my WSJ profile. Thank you.

Posted by: Cliff Farris, Dec 16, 2009 07:56:34 AM

We had eight years of the dumbest president ever and you ass holes complain about Obama and Emanuel!!!! slap yourself. Our sons and daughters are dying every day because of Bushit and tricky dick chenney went to war over stealing oil and killing innocent children, women and men and called it fighting for democracy. These two idiots stole the election and rammed their bull down our throats, and you want us to be angry that the present administration is trying to clean up their dropings. Lets face it, you rats are angry because they are not war mongers and really care about ordinary people. Try taking your sorry asses and fight and die for what you don’t believe in!!! by the way if you do decide to go don’t call us, and we won’t call you.

Posted by: Malone D., Oct 19, 2009 02:09:17 PM

Washingtonian.com should have removed the racist comments about President Obama and Rahm Emanuel but that another story and don’t deserve the time and energy it takes to read it. I enjoyed the story about the Emanuel family. The brothers remind me of my own brother Edwin Emanuel who is very sucess driven. He wrote a book about his tour in Viet Nam as a member of the first Black LRRP, Long Range Recon Patrol. The book is called "Soul Patrol", goofy name, but makes for good reading.

Posted by: Emanuel, Oct 19, 2009 04:29:55 AM

1. I love the intensity of this family, they have all gone for "it" and achieved- that is AMERICAN!
2. Being Jewish has nothing to do with what they can and will do or that the did achieve something.
3. MOST IMPORTANT not everyone gets medical care my father is fighting cancer with tea because he doesn’t "qualify for insurance or medicare" so to Judi Moon get your facts straight B#@!#

Posted by: cookied, Oct 18, 2009 09:04:10 PM

Jews are awesome, we own America, in fact we made it. Why shouldn’t we run this country, for goodness sake? We are the richest and brightest folk here, in fact in the entire world. If you don’t believe it just google Jewish genius!

Posted by: B Vanderbild, Oct 01, 2009 02:34:58 AM

Insignificant vermin

Posted by: reality , Aug 21, 2009 06:59:34 PM

Insignificant overacheiver.

Posted by: realityman, Aug 21, 2009 06:58:20 PM

Most Jews rarely swear at all and are struggling to pay their bills like the rest of the country. As a Jew, I can tell you that the Emanuel family does not reflect the lives or beliefs of Jews at all. Ezekiel’s medical beliefs totally violate Jewish law, and Rahm’s conduct is unspeakably inappropriate. I pray they will both resign their posts immediately because they do not deserve the positions of power they have been given.

Posted by: OneJew, Aug 15, 2009 06:57:31 PM

And Jews wonder why nobody likes them!

Posted by: BagleWatch, Aug 15, 2009 01:05:53 PM

I want to see more folks from the yellow, red and brown races in politics in this country. They might bring some much needed competition and fairness to the power politics now being played in America by mostly black, white and jewish amoral, demagogue, crooks...

Posted by: Janice H., Aug 11, 2009 05:27:55 AM

What self-absorbed, amoral scum. This country has taken in too many undesirables.

Posted by: Jeff Klein, Aug 10, 2009 06:43:17 PM

What a bunch of dysfunctional freaks -- all so bizarre and radical -- not to mention loud and profane. We need THIS involved in the government of our country? I think NOT.

Off with their heads -- disgusting creatures, all.

Posted by: Courtney, Aug 10, 2009 06:15:04 PM

SOUND LIKE A BUNCH OF FUCKING NAZI’S..DR HITLER NEEDS TO TAKE HIS FUCKING OLD PARENTS AND LET THEM BE THE POSTER CHILDREN FOR NOT TAKING CARE OF THE ELDERLY CAUSE THEY DON’T COUNT IN OBAMA’S FUCKING WORLD. SOCIALIST SHIT, NOTHING ELSE. ANYONE READING WHAT DR NAZI HAS TO SAY WOULD THINK HE WAS FUCKING CRAZY. THIS IS ONE OF ASSHOLE OBAMA’S ADVISORS...RIGHT ON YOU DUMB DEMS THAT VOTED FOR THIS IDIOT.

Posted by: rahm and his doctor brother, Aug 08, 2009 06:30:29 PM

THIS IS ABOUT NOBODY BUT THEMSELVES AND BEING A MIXED RACE FAMILY-SELF-CENTERED, SELF-AGGRANDIZING, DOING ANYTHING TO GET AHEAD, THIS IS NOT ABOUT BEING AN AMERICAN-JUST LIKE OBAMA

Posted by: rob, Jul 19, 2009 09:12:27 AM

Are you crazy. Zeke is spearheading this socialistic health care bill that will ensure anyone with an incurable disease or a potentially lethal disease WILL GET NO TREATMENT! Seniors will not get health care. You young ones that think that is ok... will think that until you get older. Take the time to read some of the horrible views of Zeke. He’s not a good guy and should never have a Dr.’s license with his immoral views. The facts will speak for themselves if you bother to research this creeps views. If you think socialized medicine is a good thing I urge you to talk to a plain citizen in Canada or England. Your view of govt. medicine will change very quickly. Anyone who says people in the US don’t have access to medical care is a liar. Granted not everyone has insurance however there is Medicaid, uncompensated care and free clinics. Not to mention the fact that non profit hospitals and county hospitals can not turn people away. This whole health care thing is a scam to make us more like Europe. The elite politicians and the peasants. Wake up people, Europe is trying to be more forward like America... these horrible democrats are trying to take us backwards. Wake up, wake up, wake up before it’s too late.

Posted by: Judi Moon, Jul 17, 2009 03:51:19 PM

Great article. The Emanuel are bold, intelligent tributes to this diverse nation.

Posted by: Trish, Jun 11, 2009 12:59:02 AM

Rahm is a outstanding man.He’s excellent at what he does,keep up the goodwork!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: B Crews, Jun 10, 2009 12:30:11 PM

I am so glad that I sought this out and read it! He’s fascinating! Immigrants and their children are truly the backbone of our great country of mixed people! No wonder President Obama wanted him.

Posted by: VivAlden, Jun 03, 2009 11:28:54 AM

.....and we are to think this man is a good representative of all of us??????

He presents himself as an adversary to Americans This is NOT what we want, I think.

He seems to have disdain for the majority of Americans - why are his speeches so tight-jawed & his words so hate-filled against who should be, his own?

Read about his history - not only is he NOT qualified for his job (unless you feel that a ballet degree from Sarah Lawrence makes him qualified - yes, ballet; look it up).

Look up his background - he has a personal agenda that has NOTHING to do with serving our country!!!!

Posted by: Jo Puschek, May 24, 2009 11:57:52 PM

It does not look like the sailors of the ill fated USS Liberty will see any justice, re. honest statement by neither the new US government nor by the rightwing Israeli government. Why would anybody now prosecute the Israeli spys that worked for the AIPIC? Israel got the fox into the chicken coup, slam dunk! Rahm just copies and provides. Now how convenient is that!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forget any protests against Israeli human rights violations, the provoked and carefully planned war in the Gaza strip which is nothing less than ethnic cleansing,the home demolition going on in East Jerusalem - you will not hear one word of protest coming out of the White House. Why is everybody so afraid of that little dancing choleric called Rahm (the grit that collects on cooked milk?)Auerbach? Is there anybody left with a little something called "backbone" ?????????????

Posted by: Rachel90Iq, May 02, 2009 05:55:18 PM

Rahm is one highly educated man who is on the ball in Washington DC. Rahm you are a fantastic politican. If I may say you are a rock star in the world of politics. Keep up the great work and rock on you rock star lol (=.
Kind Regards,
D Vandenboom

Posted by: D Vandenboom, Mar 18, 2009 11:12:01 AM

rahm is good looking in my opinion and one heck of a politician. Nice family, really reminds me of my own siblings.

Posted by: daila, Jan 30, 2009 10:15:59 AM

I admire Rahm and his achievements.
Makes us realize that we must persevere in our endeavours no matter what.
Rahm is an inspiration to me.

Rahm,you rock!!

Posted by: Reshmi, Jan 23, 2009 01:27:04 PM

i finally got to read this article...interesting
to learn about rahm’s dual citizenship...an editor
in haaretz has just recently (dec. 21, i think)
written about his family...and it was the first time i realized the ’ballet’ lessons...the thing
that got me was that the editor mentioned the
family as being ’former’ israelis, which bugged
me to no end...folks born in israel can now live
anywhere in the world and that does NOT make them
former israelis, just more cosmopolitan, damn it!

Posted by: ruth, Dec 25, 2008 06:35:56 PM

It blows my mind how Pres. elect Obama can be criticized on both sides of an issue. It wasn’t but a few months ago people were concerned over his pro-Palastinian ties, or how maybe he was a Muslim. Now he is too close to Israel? Sometimes people just need to take things at face value. Obama is appointing a diverse group of people to his cabinet. That is always a good thing.

Posted by: R. Brown, Nov 25, 2008 10:02:32 PM

Rham--as I believe the Clintons may have discovered sometime during 2005--most-likely is a character actor from a decades-old "power coup GAME." Perhaps President-elect Obama has not fully become informed of this background and history; and the Clintons busily-campaigning in opposition to an Obama Presidency for so much of 2005 through the first half of 2008, perhaps have neglected to inform Obama of the truths they already had discovered! Obama’s most-reliable, loyal and truthful informants may be among the civilian population who elected him. Let’s hope and pray the blessed one does not mistakenly position his Administration as "apologists" for past debacles of the Clinton Administration, so eager for relief from more-recent leadership debacles has the United States become. In summary, Rham Emmanuel’s attitude seems not a ’good fit’ for an Obama Presidency. By the way, WHICH investment bank employed him, following his stint with the Clinton Administration? And where is that bank’s position with respect to Treasury Secretary Paulson’s recent handouts--uhum, excuse me, "investments"--of U.S. public funds for ramping up the capital positions of "poor little ol’ victimized-by-the-troubled-assets-of-troubling-institutions’" investment banks? From ballet to banking--sorry, but I cannot locate the 27-page CV that might better-explain such a path from point A to point B. However, I am well-aware of power "Game" character-actors’ jaunts from similar points A to points B. Sever the guy’s power ties--and let’s see who he really is. In loyalty to the President-elect and our nation, I favor exposing all potential risks for ’adverse leaks’ that may impede Obama’s genuine foreign policy efforts during the U.S.’s near future. On other appointments, I like his pick for Attorney General--and I remain wary of his potential-pick for Secretary of State unless she can be loyal to his agenda (and not just her own or a past Administration’s agenda that she may favor). There are plenty of qualified people in this country (or hiding abroad as expatriots)--sadly, too many became blacklisted in favor of promoting the less-qualified (but more malleable within power brokers’ hands). Even more sadly, too few knew the difference (or cared).

Posted by: aghast!, Nov 19, 2008 12:14:11 PM

No one mentions his heavy involvement in AIPAC! Are you kidding? I hope there is change - doesn’t look good though...and for that person who said the Israeli’s have it bad: Come on, Israel is the only country that gets $3billion+ in aid per YEAR, and a free hall pass to commit blatant human rights abuses and shield the excuse behind antisemitism and the right to security... boo hoo

Posted by: Rich Madrid, Nov 17, 2008 01:06:47 PM

What does President-elect Obama want to convey with his choice of Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel for Chief-of-Staff?

That he values smart people who will tell him the unvarnished truth, no matter what.

That he is no pushover and he intends to hit the ground running and get things done.

That he values diversity of opinions (recall that he also had a noted Palistinian scholar in his circle of friends).

That he is confident in his judgement and is not swayed by opinions of those who don’t know his associates the way he does.

That he is loyal to his friends.

Posted by: nellie, Nov 17, 2008 11:07:09 AM

were was is father when hitler was slaughtering is jewish bretheren,or did he prefer to fight the british who was the only country who stood up to the nazi’s

Posted by: green, Nov 15, 2008 11:39:49 AM

I think we’re screwed. Obama doesn’t want to go after Bush &Co for their various crimes. Has a Chief of staff that is a vulgar Zionist. Wants to give our money to a bunch of spoiled gets who couldn’t manage a royal flush. Meet the new Boss same as the old Boss.

Posted by: User Loser , Nov 13, 2008 10:24:06 PM

Comments focused on ethnicity miss the essence of this article. The fascinating themes are bonds, competition, loyalty, and expectations. These themes are present (or absent) to varying degrees in all families. The example of the Emanuels provides a basis for insight and exploration in our own family lives. Comments focused on ethnicity miss the essence of this article.

Posted by: mb, Nov 12, 2008 08:57:30 PM

Emmanual’s links to Israel include dual citizenship and a stint fighting one of their many wars.
His father was a member of Irgun, a militant Zionist organization that operated inside Palestine.
This is a dangerous appointment. The Middle East is a flashpoint because of the perceived injustice of American foreign policy.
Obama needs to reconsider.

Posted by: cadawa, Nov 12, 2008 02:14:55 PM

What an impressive family! Parents must be awesome! How lucky the Emanuel brothers are to have each other.

Posted by: Ellen Krauss, Nov 12, 2008 06:18:44 AM

This appointment is disturbing because of the Israeli (Zionist) impact so close to the US top. I have no problem with Jewish acomplishments and contributions but the most major problem on this planet at this time is the perception of the US unconditional support of the Zionist government of Israel, these are the people who push the globalization which has brought the US and many others to this low point economically, they are the people who stress violence as the solution for disagreements. It is frightening for the future of my children and those still unborn.

Posted by: MK, Nov 11, 2008 11:54:19 AM

Rahm will lift us high in the world. He is a DOER not just a TALKER.

We need people of positive actions with all our social and economics issues.

Posted by: joseph Arthur, Nov 11, 2008 10:44:08 AM

Awesome pick for Chief of Staff!

Posted by: Keri, Nov 10, 2008 07:52:03 PM

I think this Rahma character should be monitored on a short, tight leash to prevent his pitbullian philosophy from jeapordizing diplomacy with other nations. Flaunting his extreme pro-Israel partiality is not an effective tool in dealing with the middle eastern countries. It seems that where boy-bushco left off, rahmabama will continue.

Posted by: KDT, Nov 10, 2008 09:47:26 AM

What is is.

Posted by: WII, Nov 09, 2008 06:47:59 PM

I, as a Jewish Canadian, am proud of Rahm’s achievements. In Hebrew, "Rahm" conveys "exalted", a level which we expect him to attain, as an advisor to Obama.

Posted by: Deborah (in Canada), Nov 08, 2008 01:27:18 PM

As a Jew I’m proud of Brahm Emanuel.His accomplishments are noteworthy and he has a lot to offer.And proud we elected someone who is a fine represetative of a group of people who have been under represented in America!

Posted by: Iris, Nov 07, 2008 01:04:15 PM

Obama needs this guy. Jews are the minority and quietly waiting to see how Obama handles Jewish issues. Many Jews supported Obama, but the ones who didn’t are afraid he will not be friendly to Jews. But the fact is that Jews have given so much to this country. Just like Rahm’s mother, Jews have been the among strongest advocates for equality in this country only to be cast as evil by the Black American Muslim movement. And we’re getting a bum deal in Israel too. Yes we’re in power there, but the Palestinians are being used as puppets for all the Arab nations that hate Israel. Everyone knows that Hamas is controlled by Iran, yet Israel is still expected to negotiate with them after they are elected by Palestinians who have been brainwashed into hate. Hamas are terrorists - there is not debating that! So I’m relived Rahm is in the Whitehouse, we need a tough Jew to fight for us since so many still don’t recognize the real antisemitism that is at the core of our problems.

Posted by: TU, Nov 07, 2008 10:14:17 AM

Zeke was my next door neighbor in the city.

Posted by: susie, Nov 07, 2008 08:35:37 AM

If u read it carefully-and do furter research and reading, he is going to be Chief of Staff- nothing more- Reagan and Bush also had Jewish staff as COS as well - there is NO link to isarel but that his grandparents and parents were born NORtH of Isarel and they came to US and has been tax payer citizens who are past the Middle class income bracket. No matter who goes in, there will be people on both side will complain about that person. the cabinet is going to be mixed of Democrate and Republican and even Independents. He picked out someone has experience and has worked in the white house before. No matter who goes in, there will be whiners-only because they didnt get picked.

Posted by: dbird, Nov 07, 2008 06:49:03 AM

le petit J .qu’obama a nommé "chief of staff" à la maison blanche!

Posted by: herb, Nov 07, 2008 02:36:35 AM

Though i envy the achievements of RAHM emanuel as an accomlished person, I fail to understand what on earth does obama want to convey. His first appointment ahs drawn strong criticism from all over. THis appointment does not augur well for muslims all over the world particularly Middle East and south asia

Posted by: gulzar Khan, Nov 06, 2008 10:49:50 PM

Amazing how the "West Wing" has mirrored the Obama presidency, and Rahm Emanuel’s appointment.

His links to Israel seem a worry though. With the middle east being central to many of the world’s terrorism problems, can he maintain a balanced and objective view on Israel? I know he was central in the peace process in the Clinton presidency, so hopefully the Obama presidency can finish the problem and attain a lasting peace in the middle east.

Posted by: Cheyenne Morrison , Nov 06, 2008 08:34:29 PM

some fuckin family!

Posted by: RK, Nov 06, 2008 07:13:46 PM

Brothers: Rahm Emanuel and His Family

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