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Obama and Emanuel: Great Team or a Mismatch?
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is stepping down, and Rahm Emanuel wants the job. President Obama is expected to announce his Chief of Staff's departure tomorrow. Emanuel has been the "get-it-done insider" to Obama's "visionary outsider," praised for legislative successes and scapegoated for defeats.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readChicago Mayor Richard Daley is stepping down, and Rahm Emanuel wants the job. President Obama is expected to announce his Chief of Staff's departure tomorrow. Emanuel has been the "get-it-done insider" to Obama's "visionary outsider," praised for legislative successes and scapegoated for defeats. But along the way, Emanuel has angered conservative Republicans, who think Obama has gone too far, and alienated liberal Democrats who say he hasn't gone far enough. Will his departure unite a divided White House? Who will be next? What are his chances at home in Chicago?
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author
Karen Radziner
Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?
Lynn Sweet
Washington Bureau Chief, Chicago Sun-Times
Peter Baker
New York Times
Ari Berman
voting rights reporter for Mother Jones, author of “Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People ― and the Fight to Resist It”