“This is about whether we’re going to get big things done,” Obama said. “I wasn’t sent here to do school uniforms.”

Rahm then asked Obama if he still felt lucky.

“My name is Barack Hussein Obama and I’m sitting here,” Obama answered. “So yeah, I’m feeling pretty lucky.”

Pres. Obama on push back from Rahm Emanuel and others on healthcare via Jon Alter’s new book “The Promise”.

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I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts,

“Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?,” Sarah Palin called for his firing for comments attributed to him in a Jan. 26 Wall Street Journal article where he called plans by liberal groups to run ads against moderate Democrats “F—ing retarded.”

NYPost

Appearing on Charlie Rose last night, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel sounded less than optimistic that the Senate’s health care reform bill would include a public option.

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