{"id":536033,"date":"2010-04-20T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.34227"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:22:40","slug":"rahm-emanuel-for-chicago-mayor-bill-burton-with-white-house-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/536033","title":{"rendered":"Rahm Emanuel for Chicago mayor? Bill Burton with White House react"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;White House Deputy spokesman Bill Burton, reacting to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel saying that he wants to run for Chicago mayor when Mayor Daley quits during a gaggle on Air Force One:<\/p>\n<p>Q    What is your reaction to Rahm running for mayor?<\/p>\n<p>     MR. BURTON:  Look, we all serve at the pleasure of the President, and Rahm very much enjoys the work that he does as Chief of Staff.  He was talking about a scenario where if Mayor Daley doesn&#8217;t run for reelection, but we all know that Mayor Daley is running for reelection.  It&#8217;s something that many kids in Chicago dream of growing up to be a mayor, so it&#8217;s one of the great jobs in American politics.  But it&#8217;s just an ambition &#8212; when I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut.  Gibbs probably wants to ride in the Tour de France.  That doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re all leaving the White House to go and do &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>     Q    Does the President think that Rahm Emanuel would be a good mayor of Chicago?<\/p>\n<p>     MR. BURTON:  I think the President thinks that Rahm Emanuel is a great chief of staff and enjoys having him in that job right now.  Maybe &#8220;enjoy&#8221; is the wrong word.  (Laughter.) <\/p>\n<p>     Okay, thanks.\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;White House Deputy spokesman Bill Burton, reacting to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel saying that he wants to run for Chicago mayor when Mayor Daley quits during a gaggle on Air Force One: Q What is your reaction to Rahm running for mayor? MR. BURTON: Look, we all serve at the pleasure of the President, [&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-536033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536033","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=536033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}