Posted on 05/28/2010 8:01:50 AM PDT by tcrlaf
The White House asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe Sestak about the possibility of obtaining a senior position in the Obama administration if he would drop out of the Democratic primary race against establishment-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, the Obama administration will say in a report to be released Friday morning, Fox News has confirmed.
The report, by the White House Counsel's office, will describe the Clinton conversations as informal and unhinged from any precise job offer since, as a former president, Clinton could not guarantee Sestak anything.
The conversations with Sestak were initiated by Clinton at the behest of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel was Clinton's political director when he was president. Clinton promoted Sestak to vice admiral and made his director of defense policy. Sestak was a loyal and tireless supporter of Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency in 2008.
The report will be released one day after President Obama said the White House would issue a formal explanation that should answer questions about Sestak's allegation and insisted "nothing improper" happened. On the same day, Clinton had lunch with Obama.
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Obama throwing BILL CLINTON under the bus!
So, BJ is gonna be the fall guy for this?
How clever...
LOL ... I just can’t see Bubba doing this ... too strange.
Look at that artful wording -- "The conversations with Sestak were initiated by Clinton"
Oh, yeah Rahm Emanuel had some sort of involvement -- there was a little "behesting" there. But, you know, clearly Obama had nothing to do with any of this.
Hmmm. Curiouser and curiouser. Didn’t see this coming.
I now attorney but still....if obama asked Clinton to do the deed, how does that absolve obama of any wrongdoing?
How convenient for the O.
Doesn’t matter if it was Billy Jeff talking to Sestak - the request came from the WH itself. This was a bald-faced attempt to control the outcome of a U.S. Senate primary race and, hence, illegal. The Obozo has gone and stepped into something of which he will not be able to remove the stink from his shoes.
Billy Bob won’t be the fall guy alone. He’ll take zero with him.
Ahh, use the slickster in chief to parse & lie.
Does the administration want us to believe that using an agent to offer a bribe absolves them from criminal responsibility? How very Clintonesque.
They’re not idiots, just commies. This is probably legal.
So, BJ is gonna be the fall guy for this?
How clever...
LOL
BJ once remarked that 0bama was one of those people who “used to bring us our coffee”.
liars...thugs...political whores
Has Rahm bought his ticket back to Chicago yet?
He needs to.
These jobs are in trust for the good of the American people, not Zero’s or his henchmen to give out like door prizes.
didn’t he say O was from the mo’tee’sah tribe?
This could be the start of a war between the Obama and Clinton crime families!
Clinton is the “top kill” for the Sestak disaster
So this is the latest -— ROFLMAO — Obama trying to toss, BJ under the bus. So how would BJ guarantee anything for Obama? Unless ...
As I recall, Sestak said someone in the Obama white House, not someone in the outhouse, offered him a job to drop out of the primary.
This is LOL funny staging.
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