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White House asked Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about Senate run
Washington Post ^ | May 28 2010 | Michael D. Shear and Philip Rucker

Posted on 05/28/2010 10:59:14 AM PDT by malkee

At the urging of the Obama White House, former President Bill Clinton asked Rep. Joe Sestak whether he would abandon his plans to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in a Pennsylvania Democratic primary if given an unpaid, advisory position, according to a White House counsel report issued Friday morning.

Clinton made the inquiries on behalf of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel last summer, as Sestak began his challenge of Specter, a former Republican who had switched parties, White House Counsel Bob Bauer wrote. Obama publicly backed Specter's reelection bid over Sestak, who remained in the primary and defeated the veteran senator this month.

Bauer concluded that nothing improper had taken place and that "allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law." Contrary to allegations by many conservative pundits, Bauer found that Sestak had not been offered the position of secretary of the Navy. Bauer concluded that discussions about "alternatives" to a Senate campaign by Sestake were proper.

"The Democratic Party leadership had a legitimate interest in averting a divisive primary fight and a similarly legitimate concern about the Congressman vacating his seat in the House," Bauer wrote. "There have been numerous, reported instances in the past when prior Administrations -- both Democratic and Republican, and motivated by the same goals -- discussed alternative paths to service. . . . Such discussions are fully consistent with the relevant law and ethical requirements."

Sestak declined to answer questions about White House revelations involving Clinton and Emanuel.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bubba; clintoon; corrupt; despots; fubo; lyingcriminals; obama; sestak; sestakgate; sestakobama; sleaze
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Somewhere there is supposedly a videotape of Joe Scarborough asking Sestak about the job where he admits it was Secretary of the Navy.Let's hope someone finds it.
1 posted on 05/28/2010 10:59:14 AM PDT by malkee
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To: malkee

liar consults liar to tell a lie


2 posted on 05/28/2010 11:01:00 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: malkee

How long before Rahmbo falls on his sword?


3 posted on 05/28/2010 11:05:06 AM PDT by sono ("Everything government touches turns to crap." Ringo Starr.)
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To: Doogle

Yeah! It is pathetic.

What’s that game thing .... 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon or something.


4 posted on 05/28/2010 11:06:14 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: malkee

What is the count for appointment of an independent counsel on this compared to so called “plamegate” and other Dem trumped up alleged Bush/Republican scandals?


5 posted on 05/28/2010 11:06:16 AM PDT by steve0 (My plan B: christianexodus.org/)
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To: malkee

“...unpaid, advisory position...”

Oh come off it, WP. If we were that stupid we’d have voted for your clown-O-dent.


6 posted on 05/28/2010 11:07:16 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: malkee

Just to let y’all know....the Post had a link beneath the word “revelations” in the final sentence posted above.

That link is now gone. In it, it said that Sestak replied that he was only interested in what was good for Pennsylvanians. It’s now been replaced with this:

“I said no,” Sestak wrote, adding that “the former President said he knew I’d say that and the conversation moved on to other subjects.”


7 posted on 05/28/2010 11:07:22 AM PDT by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than three years now -- But I think about it every day.)
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To: malkee

Everything these people say is a lie.


8 posted on 05/28/2010 11:09:08 AM PDT by detective
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To: malkee

“Moves on to other subjects”... like, “You have a nice cat. Sure would hate to see something happen to her? Doesn’t your daughter play at Ft Marcy Park playground? Doesn’t your son want to get into Annapolis?......”


9 posted on 05/28/2010 11:10:08 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Doogle
liar consults liar to tell a lie

Dead on balls accurate description.

10 posted on 05/28/2010 11:10:30 AM PDT by b4its2late (Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?)
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To: sono

Rahm falling on HIS sword? I don’t think so.


11 posted on 05/28/2010 11:11:36 AM PDT by twigs
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To: malkee

asked Rep. Joe Sestak whether he would abandon his plans to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in a Pennsylvania Democratic primary if given an unpaid, advisory position>>>>>>>

UNPAID! Yeah right lol lol sure...... Unpaid means a nothing appointment. This version is a complete lie


12 posted on 05/28/2010 11:12:01 AM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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To: malkee

We’ve got to take politics out of politics.


13 posted on 05/28/2010 11:12:53 AM PDT by Riodacat (Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.)
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To: malkee

Just read my tagline


14 posted on 05/28/2010 11:13:29 AM PDT by two23 (Everything about them is a lie)
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To: sono

Maybe that was why he was crying at the Kotel.


15 posted on 05/28/2010 11:14:21 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: malkee

Asked ???????????$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ The Bent one does nothing for free,This also makes him a party to the crime.


16 posted on 05/28/2010 11:15:00 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: sono

Rahm won’t fall on his sword for anyone; doing so implies fortitude. In this instance he has, in all appearances, stepped on his d**k.


17 posted on 05/28/2010 11:15:50 AM PDT by La.daddyrabbit (Obama, those 2.5 million new jobs you created/ saved, are they hand or blow?)
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To: La.daddyrabbit

From Meet the Depressed ...

MR. GREGORY: All right, but you’ve campaigned on transparency. It’s part of the politics. You talked about standing up to the White House when they’d fielded a candidate–made a deal with Arlen Specter. So isn’t it in the–in the spirit of transparency, were you offered a job by the administration? And what was it?

REP. SESTAK: I learned, as I mentioned, about that personal accountability in the Navy.

MR. GREGORY: Yeah.

REP. SESTAK: I felt I needed to answer that question honestly because I was personally accountable for my role in the matter.

MR. GREGORY: What’s the answer? What’s the job you were offered?

REP. SESTAK: And–but anybody else has to decide for themselves what to say upon their role, and that’s their responsibility.

MR. GREGORY: Yes or no, straightforward question. Were you, were you offered a job, and what was the job?

REP. SESTAK: I was offered a job, and I answered that.

MR. GREGORY: You said no, you wouldn’t take the job. Was it the secretary of the Navy?

REP. SESTAK: Right. And I also said, “Look, I’m getting into this…

MR. GREGORY: Was it the secretary of the Navy job?

REP. SESTAK: Anything that go–goes beyond that is others–for others to talk about.

http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2010/05/24/joe-sestak-gain-confirms-o-admin-job-offer-seeks-to-paint-himself-as-an-outsider/

It surely sounds as if Sestak’s admitting he was offered a job.


18 posted on 05/28/2010 11:18:03 AM PDT by sono ("Everything government touches turns to crap." Ringo Starr.)
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To: dennisw
Maybe Hillary will command Bill to say that he doesn't know what Obama is talking about. There is no honor among thieves.
19 posted on 05/28/2010 11:19:25 AM PDT by tractorman
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To: malkee

Sestak repeatedly said someone from “within the White House” offered him a “job”, why would he refuse for 3 months to answer further questions if this was the truth all along?


20 posted on 05/28/2010 11:20:58 AM PDT by swamprebel (Carbon molecules are an endangered species, let the liberals chase them with butterfly nets.)
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