Posted on 05/29/2010 12:50:57 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
The White House said Friday that former President Bill Clinton acted as a go-between to discuss with Rep. Joe Sestak an Obama administration job in exchange for abandoning his Senate Democratic primary challenge against incumbent Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
The report came amid heavy pressure from Democrats and Republicans for the White House to provide details about Mr. Sestak's repeated contention that he was offered a job if he would pull out of the race.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
That is a distinction without a difference. The WH CoS is the source of the offer. Guilty! And it is a crime.
This is the the Big Lie of the matter. No one moves to Washington DC for a position without compensation. Some people refuse to move to that hell hole for no amount of money. There might have been no compensation for a short period of time, but the fix was in. That Clinton was involved in this ordeal comes at a bad time. Clinton has been the Democrat point man to promote Democrat candidates. He has been rolled out in place of Obama, who has lost his star quality with his terrible performance as President. So they are trying to use Clinton for his star power. This latest episode will tarnish his stature and cripple Democrat fund raiser plans.
Only one question here...how many MORE jobs has Bill offered to folks? If he says one and only one...the story would be just about unbelievable. And it doesn’t explain the Colorado offer then....which is an entirely different offer. Perhaps they can find another ex-president...like Jimmy Carter....to cover that one?
Obama’s story is just bs
When did impeached President Clinton regain credibility. He has none, and never will get any again. I am not sure how Clinton’s name makes this okay. It would be awesome to see him in jail with the others involved though.
IMPEACH HIM AGAIN!!!
Now, who approached you first? Was it Barzini, or Tattaglia?
Bubba will be nominated for UN Secretary General as the price for his service to the One. In that position, Bubba will be able to sample the services of the world.
LOL!!!!
I heard Sestak’s interview yesterday.I could hear his VERY carefully selected words and phrases when he answered questain
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Clintoon in prison would be the thrill of my life.
“”It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”
Bill Clinton in 1998
“”It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘job’ is”
Bill Clinton will probably say this in 2010
I would love to see Obama impeached and Clinton in jail. But lets not get to greedy. Idealy all of them should be in jail.
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I did not make a job offer to that Congressman, Mr. Sestak.