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Obama’s Chief Issue

If Rahm Emanuel departs and the Dems lose the House, who should run the White House?

• By John Heilemann
• Published Sep 12, 2010

Excerpt:

What’s needed, then, is a chief of staff who hails from beyond the Obamasphere—complemented by a widening of the circle of those who have the president’s ear. The irrepressible Chris Matthews has floated Mike Bloomberg or Colin Powell for COS. The chances of either accepting the job are roughly as high as its being offered to Anthony Weiner. But Matthews was onto something: the imperative to go big and bold, and to choose someone with the stature and the balls to tell Obama things he doesn’t want to hear. Several names of that kind on the current short lists stand out: outgoing Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, former Virginia governor Mark Warner, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, and, even though he ran the Obama transition, former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.

In Emanuel, Obama has had a chief of staff who has aided him in being the kind of president he set out to be. But the time is approaching when he will have to recast his conception of the job. Whether that means formulating an Obaman version of triangulation or adopting a more vigorously populist and partisan stance is an open question—one that will depend on how he chooses to resolve the ambiguity that has dogged him for much of the past two years. What’s perfectly clear, though, is that with the GOP holding all the cards on Capitol Hill, Obama will need help in becoming something bigger, and better, than a pragmatic legislator-in-chief. Or else, ’round about January 2013, he may wind up being something rather smaller.

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We shared thought on Emanuel replacement before... and thought this gave some added perspective. Yes, once again the strength for the current POTUS seems to be fall back to Clinton's staff. John Podesta is quite good.. but again Pres.Obama has little to no one to draw from among his "staff" or "mentors" and that leaves the Dem party bereft of budding leaders for the future.  Not a good situation.

Once again, I hope that whoever gets selected comes into the office with a broader mindset one in which women are equal players and are provided truly equal opportunity - where the ground is not level, it is leveled to provide that equal playing field.

It is always the practical aspects of the legislation that matter to the people.