Probably not the message the post-racial president-elect had in mind

The Irish Times has this little gem nestled in the middle of a report on the President-elect's day on Friday:

'The new chief of staff's [Rahm Emanuel] father, Benjamin Emanuel, an Israeli who fought with the Irgun guerrilla group, told an Israeli newspaper that the Jewish state would have a good friend in the White House.

"Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," Ma'ariv quoted him as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House [cringe, cringe, cringe]."'

No, Mr Emanuel, your son is not an Arab. But according to a few of McCain's supporters, his new boss is.