{"id":388154,"date":"2010-03-04T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32572"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:04:06","slug":"rahm-emanuel-defended-by-david-broder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388154","title":{"rendered":"Rahm Emanuel defended by David Broder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Now <strong>David Broder, <\/strong>the sage Washington Post poltiical columnist, is weighing in on Obama White House chief of staff <strong>Rahm Emanuel<\/strong> in a Thursday column titled<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/03\/AR2010030301776.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\"> &#8220;The Fable of Rahm the Great,&#8221;<\/a> the latest installment of the Emanuel saga.<\/p>\n<p>Broder&#8217;s lede:<em> &#8220;In the space of 10 days, thanks in no small part to my own newspaper, the president of the United States has been portrayed as a weakling and a chronic screw-up who is wrecking his administration despite everything that his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, can do to make things right.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Background on Rahm Emanuel Obama Drama:<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/2010\/03\/rahm_emanuel_the_new_republic.html\"><br \/>\nMy Wednesday post summary to date&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;The Rahmologists get another fix on Wednesday, this time via a story in the New Republic by Noam Scheiber about White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel titled,<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/\"> &#8220;The Chief. You think it&#8217;s so great being Rahm Emanuel?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This follows two stories in the Washington Post that have now spawned a narrative the White House can live without&#8211;whither Rahm? Read my Tuesday post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/\">&#8220;Rahm Emanuel Obama Drama&#8221;<\/a> for more background and links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Now David Broder, the sage Washington Post poltiical columnist, is weighing in on Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in a Thursday column titled &#8220;The Fable of Rahm the Great,&#8221; the latest installment of the Emanuel saga. Broder&#8217;s lede: &#8220;In the space of 10 days, thanks in no small part to my own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}