Greenwald believes Rahm-leaked stories have Obama's consent

[angelicwoman]

Today, Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com posited a very interesting theory. Not only is Rahm Emanuel leaking "Obama-needs-to-be-more-centrist" stories, but President Obama is well aware and supportive of these stories, as he wishes to become more even more centrist in the future.
Greenwald bases this theory on the fact that Rahm keeps leaking and leaking without losing his job:

One related point about the spate of "Obama-should-have-followed-Rahm's-centrist-advice" articles that have appeared of late: if you really think about it, it's quite extraordinary to watch a Chief of Staff openly undermine the President by spawning numerous stories claiming that the President is failing because he's been repeatedly rejecting his Chief of Staff's advice. It seems to me there's one of two possible explanations for this episode: (1) Rahm wants to protect his reputation at Obama's expense by making clear he's been opposed all along to Obama's decisions, a treacherous act that ought to infuriate Obama to the point of firing him; or (2) these stories are being disseminated with Obama's consent as a means of apologizing to official Washington for not having been centrist enough and vowing to be even more centrist in the future by listening more to Rahm (we know that what we did wrong was not listen enough to Rahm). One can only speculate about which it is, but if I had to bet, my money would be on (2) (because of things like this and because these "Rahm-Was-Right" stories went on for weeks and Rahm is still very much around).

Read it all: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/07/anonymity/index.html

[movonne]

1. I hope this is not true...but who knows...

[Canuckistanian]

2. What has Obama done to be labeled "not centrist enough"?

The few bones he's thrown to progressives hardly show that Obama is leftist in any way.

This is all smoke and mirrors and pretty soon everyone will see through it.

[Bluebear]

3. "More centrist" as opposed to what? Right wing?

[tularetom]

4. I don't believe there is any difference between the two options.

I think Obama is simply too nice to get rid of this rat even though the douchebag is knifing him in the back.

Why would Obama believe he hasn't been centrist enough? Because fucking Emanuel keeps telling him so, that's why.

Either way Emanuel is the problem.

Furthermore I think Emanuel was forced into this position by the Clinton faction of the Democratic party.

WTF does Emanuel have to lose anyway? He ain't the one who gets voted out of office in 2012.