Just wondering...did Rahm ALWAYS have it in for labor, the poor, and activists?

[Ken Burch]

And did he always blame union teachers for all the problems in public schools?

Or was it just that some rich guy offered him a nice deal for his soul?

Figured Chicagoland Du'ers might have the earlier scoop on all of this.

[randysoames]

1. 95% of all high level politicians....

...will sell out in a new york microsecond. They would not have made it through the media filter unless they were that way.

[mucifer]

2. His mother was a civil rights activist

I'm thinking she might not be too proud of her son right now.

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/brothers-rahm-emanuel-and-his-family/

I think it's the selling his soul thingy that most politicians fall for these days.

[Ken Burch]

3. I had heard that about his mom

Perhaps it could be psychological...maybe he felt ignored by mom, thought his mom was away from him too much being an activist and now tries to get payback against the sort of people he blames for her spending her time picketing and marching rather than being Carol Brady.

Not fair of him to feel that way, but I can see that as a possible root of his attitude.

[LegalScholar]

4. You know it's a bad sign when...

...more Democrats are openly critical of Rahm than Republicans.

Notice that?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. he had the worst possible influence on Obama, i once thought.

until I realized that Obama chose Rahm BECAUSE of his ideas. And now that Larry Summers is going to be unleashed again upon the financial world, Rahm almost looks like an almost pleasant, nostolgic minor shit, rather than a major asshole.

[whathehell]

6. Agreed...PBO remains mysterious as to his actual political persuasions.

At times I've thought of him as "The Manchurian Candidate".