An open letter to Rahm Emanuel

Dear Rahm,

So long.

I'm not a Beltway insider, nor a major Democratic player, just a blogger who believed in Obama, and sort of still does, despite everything, and who cares about America's future.

And all I can say is that it's been a genuine displeasure.

For sake of the good people of the City of Chicago, where you hope to be the new boss, here's hoping you don't do to them what you did to Obama's presidency.

And here's hoping that your successor, Peter Rouse, isn't such a disappointment. Not that you've really been a disappointment. I mean, many of us expected you to be what you've been, even if your constant attacks on the president's, and Democrats', liberal-progressive base have been more virulent than expected.

Thanks so much for being such an asshole to us. Perhaps it's not too late for the president to recover, and to be what some of us think he is capable of being, a genuinely transformative president who leads America into a brighter and more just future, a progressive future in which the country lives up to its most noble ideals and principles.

Without much regard,

Michael Stickings