Barack Obama is already working hard to get things in order!
It was announced today that Illinois U.S. Congressman Rahm Emanuel will be the administration’s chief of staff.
The LA Times reports that Mr. Emanuel previously served in Bill Clinton’s White House and that experience will allow him to guide President-elect Obama on legislative strategy and the workings of the executive branch.
The newly named chief of staff is also known to be tough as nails and a guy who knows how to get shit done.
Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Much of it is about the infighting between Palin and McCain’s staff, as Newsweek’s treasure trove of post-election gossip reveals.
However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency,” in part because she didn’t know which countries were in NAFTA, and she “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.”
Palin was apparently a nightmare for her campaign staff to deal with. She refused preparation help for her interview with Katie Couric and then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the morning and throw “tantrums” over the negative coverage. There were times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced to tears.
So, look, the New York Times has a little fun election map up, and you can zoom in on Pennsylvania and be like, “Wait, Obama won Carbon County?! Hell yea!” Then you can spend the night (or day) laughing, laughing, and laughing at John McCain ’til your lungs get tired.
Just in case you are wondering, Barack Obama received 3,185,991 votes, and John McCain received 2,585,480 votes. 61,416 other votes were for other candidates.
“There are not even words to talk about what this night means. Everybody keeps using the word historic — there’s never been a night like this on the planet earth… Nothing can compare to this.”
Frederick, mother of a 3-year-old son, Brody, and husband, Steve, who is “some kind of computer guy,” she says, are expecting a child in the spring.
The couple haven’t yet told Brody about his upcoming brother or sister. “Someone mentioned Santa Claus in late August and every day he’s been asking when Santa is coming, so we figured we’d wait, but we are excited he’s gonna have a little buddy,” Frederick said. She doesn’t plan to discuss her pregnancy on “Good Day Philadelphia,” because “as crazy as I am on TV, I like to tell everyone about other people’s news. I don’t really like to talk about myself.
“People might wonder why I’m fat,” says Frederick, a native of Clearwater, Fla., where the Phillies spring-train.
The incredibly awesome hats that some Phillies and Rays players were wearing during both days of Game 5 of the World Series are finally up for sale on the Phillies website; they’re made by New Era and come two sizes. They’re $40, which sounds like a lot but isn’t too horrible. I mean, it’s not $50.
I’m not a sports fan, but I just may have to get one.
1. Canadian comic duo Masked Avengers prank call Sarah Palin.
2. Duo has radio show on Quebec CKOI.
3. Convinced Palin she was talking to French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
4. Prank interview runs around 6 minutes.
A group of Penn kids had a bad experience at the McDonald’s at 40th and Walnut the on October 28th. This happens nearly every night, because when drunk kids from North Jersey and Long Island meet night shift workers making somewhere around minimum wage, no good things can happen.
Thanks to this being our modern era of technology, the Penn kids then made a group on Facebook imploring students to boycott McDonald’s.
Wharton sophomore Keith Williams, who witnessed the incident, explained that he and a group of friends entered the McDonald’s that morning so his friend, a College junior who did not wish to be included in the article, could use the restroom.
The security guard told them that the friend was not allowed to use the restroom until he ordered food. The student proceeded to order a meal, Williams said, but the cashier made a mistake and needed an override from the shift manager.
Because the friend had already complained about the service, the manager on duty “deliberately told [the cashier] to take her time,” explained Williams. When he complained again, the security guard jumped in and began threatening the students.
The guard said things like “don’t make me take you out of here,” and referred to the rest of the customers as “stupid school kids,” Williams said. The cashier also screamed at the students for standing too close while trying to read the menu, Williams added.
So - I know what you’re thinking: This is the greatest McDonald’s of all time and it is totally worth eating their disgusting food to support it. Apparently, though, the McDonald’s caved to the record seventeen complaints about its service and fired some people. For shame, McDonald’s.
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