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Auch die Tech-Agendy liest sich bisher wie eine Wunschliste der MPAA, da geht es um Patente und "geistiges Eigentum" und nicht um freie Software und Wissensalmende.
Aber es gibt eine echte Ernennung, und das ist der neue White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Ich will mal ein paar Details aus der Rolling Stone Story zu dem zitieren (die ist von 2005):
Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel's success is his legendary intensity. There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. There's the story about how his right middle finger was blown off by a Syrian tank when he was in the Israeli army. And there's the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."Of the three stories, only the second is a myth — Emanuel lost the finger to a meat slicer as a teenager and never served in the Israeli army. But it's a measure of his considerable reputation as the enforcer in Clinton's White House that so many people believe it to be true. You don't earn the nickname "Rahmbo" being timid.
Rahmbo, ja? Weia. Überhaupt: ein Israeli auf dem zweithöchsten Exekutivamt nach dem Präsidenten im Weissen Haus? Das läßt ja tief blicken. Da wird sich Obama ja bestimmt fair and balanced mit dem Palästina-Problem auseinandersetzen!1!!