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The Right Choice

By The Daily Dish
Nov 6 2008, 5:29 AM ET

Todd Purdum on Rahm Emanuel:

He doesn’t piss people off for the sake of scoring debating points or asserting his purity. He pisses people off because he cares about things, and sometimes pushes too hard. He lives by an old saying prevalent in F.D.R.’s Washington: “Keep all the balls in the air without losing your own.”

He's still an asshole. But assholes often get things done. And his brother, Zeke, knows more about healthcare than most mortals can absorb without a brain-freeze. (I went to grad school with Zeke and found him insufferable too. A good person and very brilliant, but, man, a pain in the ass.)



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