Posted on 04/11/2010 8:09:55 AM PDT by Saije
The young aide tasked with scheduling Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania pokes her head into his inner office on Capitol Hill.
"Caroline, give me two minutes," Sestak says. He's multitasking. As Caroline Troein shuts the door, he adds, "You're great." Sestak resumes talking with Kurt Zwikl of the Schuylkill River Heritage Area, which needs money.
"We'll watch this and get back to you," Sestak says, standing to end the meeting.
A live radio interview is next. "What's the hit?" Sestak asks as Troein enters. "On the half," she replies. The congressman picks up the black binder containing his life and begins flipping pages. "Purple tabs," Troein says, helpfully. He scans the page, which tells him that host Anne Holliday of WESB-AM in McKean County is on deck for an 8:30 a.m. interview. She wants to press Sestak on his view that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in civilian court.
Sestak has 48 hours of things he needs to do in each 24-hour period as he tends to his job in the U.S. House while running for the Senate against the longest-serving senator in Pennsylvania's history.
Sestak never stops thinking, never stops working, and never stops talking. He'll accept any interview request, from anywhere in the world. He'll drive from Washington to Pittsburgh overnight to squeeze in another campaign event, and then turn around to go back.
He's trying so hard, and yet his Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter so far has all the traction of a car with four bald tires traversing an icy mountain road.
Sestak, 58, a retired Navy admiral who won the congressional seat in his boyhood home of Delaware County in 2006 after 31 years at sea, remains undeterred. After all, he still hasn't spent $5 million in TV money.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
The most telling quote is right there. This manufacture PR job needs his handlers to tell him what to say about his life.
Every time I hear about this guy, I think of the bubble-eyed, crossbow wielding reptilians (Sleestaks) on Land of the Lost. To tell the truth, I prefer Sleestaks over Senator Seestak.
I suppose if he wins the prmary and the election, he can afford a teleprompter so he won’t have to remember which page is life is located on.
I had predicted a Sestak win. He clubbed Specter like a baby seal at the Nutroots Convention (debate). He’s smarter and more polished than Spectre.
Toomey will have an easier fight in a state where the election probably can not afford to be close, or it will be stolen in Philly and Pittsburgh.
I would bet that one of Sestak’s commercials will be to remind the Left that Specter shepherded Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Sam Alito onto the USSC. Especially his trashing of Anita Hill... One of the few things Specter ever did right.
I actually saw a Sestak bumper sticker this morning. It was right next to a faded Obama 08 sticker and a US out-of-Iraq sticker.
Good points. Often we lose site of any of the good stuff that Specter has done.
I actually think the guy is a little off his rocker. Mostly, he is blindly ambitious and drunk with power and he will do whatever he has to do to retain it.
So, in that light, I guess that I’d have to say that even the “good stuff” that he has done ~ Thomas, Roberts and trash of Hill ~ may be a matter of coincidence, and possibly done for the purpose of acquiring power.
All that aside, the guy is really a horrible and loathsome human being with no core beliefs or values.
Sounds as if the Inky is backing Sestak.
Ping to Trib and Kid.
Inky hearts Joe ping
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