I just read a Time Magazine profile of Rahm Emanuel. It’s quite interesting. A few fun facts:

• As a teenager, he severed his right middle finger slicing meat at Arby’s and went swimming in Lake Michigan before getting stitches. After the wound became severely infected, Emanuel had the top of his finger amputated and spent six weeks recovering.
• His brother, Ari, is a high-powered Hollywood agent and the basis for Jeremy Piven’s character in the HBO series Entourage, Ari Gold. Emmanuel himself was the basis for the character played by Bradley Whitford in The West Wing: Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman.
• Once, when a pollster made him angry, Emanuel sent him a dead fish.

I was linked to the profile from this article, which compares the Obama administration to the cast of The Godfather. It’s quite good, and worth a read. It does a good job of illustrating how The Feckless Barack Obama is only feckless when dealing with real threats. When it comes to smacking down voices of dissention, he’s all Chicago.