Roland Martin: Obama Must Avoid Emanuel At All Costs

10/07/2010 4:15 pm 3 comments

Source: Roland Martin / CNN

As President Obama travels to Illinois to lend a hand to the campaigns of U.S. Senate candidate Alexis Giannoulias and embattled Gov. Pat Quinn, he should stay focused on them and not his former chief of staff.

As Rahm Emanuel crisscrosses around Chicago, he is drawing lots of attention. But when the president comes to town, the attention needs to be lavished on the two races in November and not a local race in February.

Obama will likely avoid mentioning the Chicago race, but he is always likely to go off script. This is one time when the teleprompter is important. Quinn and Giannoulias are locked into tough races and need all the face time they can get.

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  • NO GAMES CHICAGO Organizer

    in 2009 obama stuck his neck out for lame duck chicago mayor richard daley for the failed bid to get the 2016 summer olympic games..we all know how that went, an embarrassment to obama; republicans jumped all over him for that… so should rahm emanuel lose his bid to become the next mayor of chicago and if obama chooses to support him on the way to election day it will be another embarrassment for obama for backing two losing campaigns

  • Ritak

    Roland,

    I know it is all Bush's fault even tho' the friggin' Democrats have been incontrol of Congress and the House since 2006 for over 4 21/2 years BUT obviously it is still Bush's fault. GIVE ME A FRIGGIN break. I

  • sc

    Hello Roland first of all I want to say that I really enjoy you and your show and I have for a long time I think you do an awesome job. my question to you now is what must we do to help our president I truly feel he has a rough start since he took the job. But if we want him back we need to get busy now I watched the election all day and have been focused since the President was running for office I really must be honest I know it was not about how he ran his office but who he is in office they cannot get pass the color of the Presidents skin lets just be real about this. I know jobs will come out of the wood works now and the economy will get fixed and anything else positive the President has tried to do it will all happen now because they want to make it seem as if he could not get the job without them. Its funny how there was not tea party doing the bush days listen I can go on forever but I want so lets promote where we go from here. We need to run your show and more like yours like cnn does for all of our younger generations can get more educated about what is really going on in the world lets get started

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