We know the story in this is that Rahm Emanuel basically endorsed Sara Feigenholtz for his old seat by putting this campaign sign for her up at his Chicago house — but we can’t get passed the fact his house is powder blue and strawberry pink.
Not surprised in the least, but, really? It looks like it’s made of those bubblegum cigars handed out when people have a baby.
This pretty much confirms that Feigenholtz will be a place-holder in the 5th Congressional, because Rahm wants someone in his seat who will give it up when he wants to come back to Chicago and be a Congressman again. If he’s backing Feigenholtz, that means she’s on the same page with that.
The same powder blue and strawberry pink welcome to fabulous page.
The other thing that makes us laugh about this is how much it reminds us of Teresa Heinz Kerry and the 2004 campaign. Back in Fox Chapel, near Pittsburgh, Teresa got tired of reporters staking out her family’s mansion, so to throw them off their game, one night she had her staff put up all kinds of Bush/Cheney signs all over her front yard. The next morning, the news crews vanished, since they believed they had the wrong house — and they couldn’t figure out why what they thought was the Heinz mansion had Bush/Cheney signs all over it.
Kerry would have been a terrible president, but man alive, Teresa would have been the most lively and interesting First Spouse since Frances Cleveland.
February 26, 2009 at 3:49 pm
HB what color house did you think he has??? Seems to me the right choice for him…from all accounts by you it fits him to a T….
February 26, 2009 at 3:59 pm
The powder blue is really the surprising part. It’s almost that creepy Obama blue from the campaign posters.
Why ever would you want to paint your house that color?
February 26, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I wouldn’t..
I have a predictable Grey with green trim..traditional lesbian paint…and yes..a subaru in the driveway..
the OBAMA blue is a bow to his god…
February 26, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I think you should run for congress. Up for it?
February 26, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Uh, the paint job is more like aubergine and teal. So very 80s and quite hideous.
February 26, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Their taste in things matches the way they govern…yuck.
February 26, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Yup, someone send over a decorator he can’t pick his colors right…they clash! Was he trying to go with the fish in the mailbox look?
February 26, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Have you all read this? Fascinating look at how His Holiness won the election.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/how_he_did_it_a_diagrammatic_a.html
February 26, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Yes, that pretty much sums up how they did it. Either I overlooked it or it wasn’t in there, but theres the quasi-religious mood that they set too. Think about the way his followers say ‘yes,we can’ after he does. It’s reminiscent of saying “Amen” after a priest says something in church. Scary. All these people are looking for a religious leader they can relate too, and he made sure he fit the bill.
February 26, 2009 at 8:52 pm
I know Keyes harbors some sour feelings for the O, but this is still good stuff.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89612
February 26, 2009 at 8:52 pm
HB, O’Reilly just said that Northern Trust Bank is the same bank that gave Obama a cushy home loan….hmmmm. Are they in Chicago?
February 26, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Yes, Northern Trust is a bank founded in Chicago about 100 years ago. They tend to service wealthier clientele.
Why, what is going on with them and Obama?
February 26, 2009 at 10:14 pm
They are the ones that threw the lavish party after they received federal bailout money. O’Reilly said tonight in a short blurb that they also made a cushy loan to Obama for his home. He then said, “I’m sure that is just a coincidence.”
Nothing is a coincidence with Obama.
February 26, 2009 at 10:15 pm
also…HB, Drudge is running this as top news…http://wcbstv.com/national/hillary.clinton.israel.2.945238.html
February 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Yes, that is where Obama got his “sweetheart of a deal” home loan back in 2005.
I am just shaking my head at the absurdities that are coming out of Chicago. It really is a great town but obviously it has a rotten core.
You cannot get ahead in Chicago unless the powers that be want you to. There is no way that I will EVER believe that Obama was not wallowing in the sewer that is Chicago politics.
Did you know that Roland Burris’ son was involved with Blago too? Just more of the same ol, same ol.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/02/sen_burris_sons_state_job_sunt.html
February 26, 2009 at 11:30 pm
The fascinating part was O’Reilly just slipping that into his broadcast tonight. There has to be a reason for it, because he doesn’t do anything without a reason. And if you would have blinked or sneezed you would have missed the entire thing.
February 26, 2009 at 11:36 pm
A pink and powder blue house, a mystery date with a Secret Service guy at the movies? are we seeing a pattern?
I’m just a dumb hetero on the east coast but it looks like being “out” in the Chicago corrupt machine is not the Chicago way.
February 26, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Jody,
In Illinois, labels don’t really matter when it comes to personal shenanigans. And not just for Democrats. There are plenty of open-secret Republicans too, men and women. Some have even run for Governor. The only time a public official is ever outed is if he or she is being hypocritical, or if they are working with children, like Ron Huberman who took over the Chicago public schools. He finally “came out” when he got the schools job, but was open-secret for years. He didn’t go the extra step of having a wife and kids (or a strawberry shortcake house) the way some politicians do, but it was never the Chicago way to out him until it was a necessity to.
Rahm Emanuel is just such a vile human being, you have no idea. People joke about his “potty mouth”, but his profanity and vulgarity are not the real problem. It’s his vindictiveness. He is filled with such hate and obsession, it’s stunning. We think you can see that nastiness in him when you look at his photos — it comes out around his eyes, and in his skin tones, and you catch peeks into his soul in some shots. That’s totally unscientific, but we believe it’s true.
Of all the things Obama did that we do not like, bringing Rahm Emanuel in as Chief of Staff was the worst. Nothing good for anyone will ultimately come from that.
February 27, 2009 at 12:37 am
Not exactly exclusive to Chicago. I’m looking at that house and trying to resist making a snide comment about my governor. You know, the newlywed whose bride has yet to move into the governor’s mansion.
February 27, 2009 at 12:40 am
I thought the picture of him thumbing his nose and sticking out his tongue pretty much told every thing you need to know about Rahm.
February 27, 2009 at 5:34 pm
yeah, a really classy move at the inauguration. He sickens me, always has.
February 27, 2009 at 12:08 am
LOL, those house colors are all wrong.
I really liked Teresa Kerry. I met her and listened to her speak. She is sort of down to earth, maybe too down to earth for politics, but it would have been entertaining. I kept wishing it was her running and not her husband.
February 27, 2009 at 12:12 am
yttik,
Some of us here worked for Kerry in Pittsburgh back in 2004 and had a few encounters with Teresa. She is a LAUGH RIOT. She’s worth over a billion and you wouldn’t know it. She is very nice, but you have to like European people, because that is what she reminds us of. Hard to explain, but she says really odd things that some people take offense to, but if you know her, you know she wouldn’t say that to be rude, but to be funny. Some things get lost in translation though — like friends we have from Europe. She is very lively and self-depreciating. A lot of people don’t get her jokes, though, which is a shame.