So Why is Obama giving Rahm Emanuel the gate?

‘No secret’ Rahm Emanuel wants to be mayor?

Does anyone believe for a minute Rahm Emanuel is wishing and dreaming of being the Mayor of Chicago rather than be the hand that rocks the “cradle”…hmm, rocks the direction of the greatest country in the World?

Well, NO- I’m getting the sense, Bawack has fallen out of LOVE with the ballerina and made his preference known to Rahm and has asked him to politely tippy-toe out of the room in search of greener pastures and a new career demoting himself to the much more simplistic municipal level.

Well the sense I’m getting from this White House shakeup is there is more here than meets the eye- and many unanswered questions. Is Rahm responsible for making a fatal mistake? If so to whom? Rahm has been very quiet these last few weeks until now… we will shelve this anomoly for a awhile and give you a chance to ruminate on your own after reading this article from Politico-

Rahm Emanuel — mayor of Chicago?

The White House chief of staff says it’s “no secret,” to his colleagues, that he’d like to run for mayor of Chicago.

He told PBS’s Charlie Rose on Monday night that if Mayor Richard M. Daley did not seek reelection, he’d want the job, though Emanuel repeatedly said he supports the mayor and would not challenge him.

“That’s always been an aspiration of mine, even when I was in the House of Representatives,” said Emanuel, a former member of the Democratic leadership who had his sights set at one time on the speaker’s gavel.

Emanuel quickly added, however, that he had no immediate plans to run for mayor, characterizing it as something he’d like to achieve “one day.”

“Right now, I’m a chief of staff,” he said. “I’m in the Cabinet, [the] president put the chief of staff in the Cabinet, but one day I want to run again.”

“The mayor’s a dear friend of mine, and I support him. I hope he seeks reelection,” Emanuel told Rose. “As you know, Charlie, you’ve been out to Chicago, he’s done a fabulous job, and one day I would like to — but if he doesn’t, at some point, that will be something I’ll do.”

The “one thing” Emanuel said that he misses from his days as an elected official is “contact with constituents.”

Famously outspoken and combative, Emanuel was a congressman from Chicago when President Barack Obama tapped him for the top White House staff post, and he still maintains close personal and political ties back home.

Daley has not yet announced whether he’ll seek a seventh term next year.

Already, though, he’s on track by year’s end to have served longer than his father, Richard J. Daley, who was first elected mayor of Chicago in 1955. He died in 1976, during his sixth term.
Politico

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