In a 2006 interview with Ben Smith of the NY Daily News, Rahm Emanuel, who will be Barack Obama's White House chief of staff, laughed at Smith's concerns about how far-reaching a mandatory civil-service plan would be.

Rahm Emanuel, who has probably spent half of his life in Israel where he volunteered for the Israeli Defense Force, has the chutzpah to tell a reporter that Americans need to know what it means to be an American.