As Obama travels for his Chicago home to the Louisiana coast to view his the damages from the BP Oil crisis, as the press day winds down into a holiday weekend, the “transparent” Obama White House has released its “version” of the circumstances surrounding the alleged job offer to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa) in exchange for him NOT running against Arlen Specter for the US Senate race.
The White House version shows Pres. Bill Clinton playing the role of “old time” party boss making the overture to Sestak. Presumably, Clinton was acting at the behest of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a former Cinton White House official. This report follows after Clinton lunched with Obama at the White House prior to his first press conference of 2010 on May 27th.
Does this end the Sestak matter, or will Sestak’s expected statement cause more heartburn at the White House?
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May 28, 2010 at 9:39 am
Ben Hoffman
Blah, blah, blah
May 28, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Interested Bystander
JAMES,
I found an article that had the memo in it:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/28/bill-clinton-approached-joe-sestak-to-drop-senate-bid-at-white-h/
Here’s what I find interesting:
This “man” who wrote this memo is a total idiot.
He ADMITS that the offer was made to keep Sestak from running. It was a “payback”, even if it wasn’t “compensated” (Sestak would have probably been given a “grant”, or some other fancy name for PAY).
Then the last line really gets me:
“Such discussions are fully consistant with the relevant law and ethical requirements.”
Of WHOM may I ask? Who’s law, or ethics? Their “made up” crap of ethics and laws?
The man LIES, it is a known FACT, what “ethical requirements” is this man going by? Not mine, that’s for sure.
I just shake my head and LAUGH, when I read crap like the White House released on a Friday afternoon when the President FINALLY went to the Gulf, and with a three day weekend, knowing regular folks wouldn’t even see or hear about this.
How’s THAT for “Hope and change”?
May 29, 2010 at 9:41 am
JAMES
The report also says that “efforts were made in June and July” and Sestak said on numerous occasions that it was a “JOB” and it was “significant”. A JOB usually entails compensation, and while a post on a Presidential advisory board might be significant to one of us, to Sestak, as a Congressman, it would not fall into that category. “June and July” implies that there was more than one phone call, and the logs and emails will undoubtedly show that contact was made by more than Clinton.
Transparency at its best.
You know, it has never been proven that Nixon had any knowledge beforehand of the Watergate break-in. What brought Nixon down was the cover-up, the obstruction of justice. Here we are 40 years later, and it is going to be the obstruction that is occurring that will encompass this White House, not the quid pro quo of Washington politics.
May 29, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Interested Bystander
JAMES,
And now I’m hearing that it is illegal for a sitting Representative to sit on one of these “advisory boards”.
They are LYING, the offer at some point may have been this “advisory board” position, but if you read the memo, it doesn’t say that these “contacts” were the ONLY “contacts”, or that this “offer” was the ONLY “offer” given to Sestak.
These “weasels” are very slick on how they word these “releases”, just like the “statments” by Hawaii about Obama’s birth certificate.
As far as Nixon goes, I believe he was one of the BEST Presidents of my lifetime. The man didn’t pull any punches, and I sure wouldn’t have wanted to be in the room when he found out that the Watergate break in was conducted by people from his “circle”. Nixon was way ahead in the polls and the break in was NOT necessary. I’m sure he didn’t order the break in, but it is pretty evident that after he found out, he advised those responsible that they’d better “cover their tracks”. And the man RESIGNED, he wasn’t driven from office.
Looking back at “that time”, I didn’t have the respect for him back then, and have grown in to realizing that what Nixon did as President, took guts and character.
Obama, on the other hand, has proven to be a “weasel”. He can NOT bring himself to admit when he does something wrong.
I can’t even imagine the field day the press would be having if McCain were President, and he found himself in the same situation as Obama finds himself.
This is how Politics are done in Chicago. It’s a “I’ll scratch your back, if you scratch mine” attitude up there, and the press is allowing Obama to bring this mentality to our Capital.
It’s disgusting.
May 29, 2010 at 8:52 am
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