Will Rahm Immanuel make it to Inauguration Day?
There is no question that being the first African-American elected President makes Barack Obama a transformative figure. He wasn't my choice but his election did answer a question as to whether an African-American could be elected President at all*.
So a mighty blow for equality has been struck. But don't think for a minute that this means the equal opportunity to fail.
As the first African-American President Obama was.....um....transformed....from a guy who just happened to be the 44th President into He Who Cannot Be Seen To Fail.
Such figures require a large "Underbus" to hold those who must "fail" in service to preserving the legacy of the transformative figure lest the transformative itself be seen to fail.
I think Rahm Immanuel is soon to be relegated to the Underbus.
* My answer was always, "Yes", but I was wrong. And stupid. And naive about the "real Amerikkka" according to my betters. The funny thing is that now that it has happened, according to my betters I am still wrong, stupid, and naive about the "real Amerikkka."
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Walsingham, of course you will always be called wrong, stupid and naive by the bien pensant because that's what they do to people are not members of the bien pensant. Have a beer with me.
This Emanuel story is wonderful. He's the most partisan of the Democrats, as tightly wound as Harold Ickes and just as revolting.
A good point that His O'liness cannot be allowed to fail. Let's remember the physicians of autocrats who died because the autocrat did. We might consider all this to be a form of suttee before the fact.