The Politicking Behind an Offer to a Specter Foe

Even as Obama tried to miraculously plug a hole a mile deep in the Gulf by having a press conference defending the government's slooooooooow response and by visiting the Gulf Coast to pick up tar balls and explain his administration's methodical approach to screwing things up, now comes his underwhelming explanation for why a bribe offered to Joe Sestak was not a bribe.

After months of innocently gathering all the 'facts', the White House chaps now claim they tried to bait Sestak into not running for the U.S. Senate with the irresistible lure of service on an irrelevant panel without pay and that this enticing job offer wasn't a bribe because the position is unenticing, unpaid and because ballerina dancer Rahm Emanuel used a conduit to offer the bribe.

According to the White House's just-released thorough review of itself, morally upright and ethical Bill Clinton innocently approached Sestak last year to discuss tempting "options of service" on an "advisory board" if he agreed to eschew the Senate race. Clinton: Don't run for Senate and you'll enjoy the lavish trappings of a dream job on an obscure board without compensation!

The White House's story is so unconvincing that the media are convinced it's true! According to the diligent press which hasn't been on top of this story for months, the allegation of misconduct involving a job offer to Sestak in exchange for his dropping out of the race is 'thoroughly' 'refuted' by a memo confirming a job offer to Sestak in exchange for his dropping out of the race. White House: It took us February, March, April and most of May to offer up our innocent little story. And this is not damage control. Trust us!

White House counsel Robert Bauer's memo claims nothing improper happened because no White House staff was used to make the job proposition since the proposition was made by White House staff through Bill Clinton.

Liberals insist this self-serving conclusion from a discredited 'investigation' somehow exonerates the White House because (a) the White House conducted the 'investigation' and (b) a White House bribe isn't a bribe if the White House uses an outside emissary or fixer to offer the bribe, which would only make it a criminal conspiracy. See? All innocent. Relax.

Liberals scream that this is Washington, this kind of stuff goes on all the time, relax, no big deal, grow up, man. In the next breath, libbies affirm belief in the cock-and-bull tale the White House concocted -- a volunteer position without pay on some snore-fest advisory board was all that tiny dancer Rahm dangled to buy off a Congressman seeking a U.S. Senate gig.

University of Virginia honcho Larry Sabato insists that nothing improper happened, just "garden variety politics," and that he's "too old and cynical" to be shocked by any of this totally 'proper' conduct and believes the White House's fairy tale completely. Liberal Fox News analyst Lis Wiehl says she doesn't understand why the White House took so "long in coming out with this memo from Bauer" and "I don't understand why they didn't come out with it sooner," but believes every word in it is true. Really? The memo says the White House spent two months trying to get Sestak to back out. But Sestak said in his presser he chatted with Clinton only once about Rahm's job offer and touched on it briefly at that. Even after the heads-up Sestak's brother got from the White House to get everybody to parrot Bauer's cooked-up alibi, Sestak gave the game away by going clumsily off script with that itty-bitty discrepancy. Only chatted once with Clinton about a job? Memo says June and July. Who else did you chat with about a job you're highly ineligible for? (President's Intelligence Advisory Board gigs aren't open to sitting Congressman under current rules.)

And what about the gig on USAID offered to you by Obama's deputy chief of staff Jim Messina? Oops, hold on -- that's another bribe, this one a failed effort to buy off Andrew Romanoff from a primary run against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. Sorry. Hard to keep all this totally 'above board' and 'proper behavior' straight.

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"JohnHuang2"

BTW, did you notice that in a pre-Memorial Day press conference (first in more than 300 days), that there were no flags. The WH can’t scrounge up a flag?

Dick Morris said to Sean Hannity that this Sestakgate “may have been an impeachable offense.” Such Chicago boiler plate politics may have been Zer0’s undoing. It is ironic that Bill Clinton was used as the intermediary. He is just the one to bring on another impeachment from another Democrat president.

the memo says the White House spent two months trying to get Sestak to back out. But Sestak said in his presser he chatted with Clinton only once about Rahm's job offer and touched on it briefly at that.

Ah, but here's we get into what the definition of "is" is. Perhaps the other contacts were with Sestak's brother Richard- his top campaign adviser and lawyer. Perhaps after Sestak rebuffed the non-paying position from Clinton, the White House got smart and used another conduit to contact Richard to make an additional offer. Of course, Joe isn't gonna offer any of this information unless he's asked.

The only question is; "What did Obama know, and when did he know it?"

sounds like Joe Sestak may be begging to be placed under oath.