Posted on 05/29/2010 5:07:19 AM PDT by tobyhill
After Barack Obama won the White House, he and his aides wrestled for weeks over what to do about Bill Clinton if his wife joined the administration. They worried that the irrepressible former president might overshadow Hillary Rodham Clinton, or even Obama himself. That didn't happen. Now, 18 months later, he has become indispensable in a way the new president probably did not anticipate.
Clinton has become the "Michael Clayton" of the Obama White House, a roving, always on-call fixer who lends his political skills to help Obama and the Democrats in tough situations. Clinton is campaigning and raising money in places where Obama is less (or less than) welcome. And, as was revealed Friday, he has been an intermediary on sensitive, off-the-grid conversations with candidates such as Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), whom he tried -- on behalf of the White House -- to talk out of running for the Senate.
One of Clinton's lowest political moments as president was when his party lost both houses of Congress in 1994. Now, with Obama's Democratic majority similarly imperiled, 44 is turning to 42 for help. In a toxic environment where candidates are running away from the establishment, Clinton has swooped in to Arizona, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York and Pennsylvania, and he is expected to make more stops before November's midterm elections.
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Isn’t this cool? The obamites are taking down Bubba in time to smack down Hillary’s pretensions to the throne
Question you have to ask is “what has BO promised for Hillary” to get BJ to do this?
These Lies are getting complicated. Sestak looks like a complete Buffoon. What a DoDo Bird he is. How did that guy ever make Admiral???
One of two things: (1) pay off the campaign debt that Hillary has left (I think it’s around five million)....or (2) get the VP position in 2012 (it’s a guaranteed thing that Joe Biden won’t be the pick to run again).
Me? I’d bet on the debt issue.
No problem when Bill Clinton lies...he’s had so much practice nobody even notices. He’s a civilian, after all and can lie to the public with impunity just like he’s done for years and years past. The reality is that nobody but fools and children believe anything he says anyway.
Bye-bye Biden in 2012.
Sestak is indeed a BUMBLING FOOL....his Presser was PATHETIC and the kids asking the questions were also pathetic.
Wasn’t it Clinton who gave Sestake his Admiral stars?
He IS, as Bob Kerrey said 20 years ago, an “uncommonly good liar”.
Clinton has morphed into Obama’s Vernon Jordan.
Ironic, isn’t it.
All the lies of BJ did was to confirm the trail of facts and verify that a crime has been committed. If anyone thinks that is was a good thing, they need to read the law again.
As a lawyer will tell you, that was dumb.
Were I Billy Jeff, I would run from these Clydes as fast as I could, and I would drag Hillary with me.
Best,
Chris
As much as I find the image repulsive...clintoon has probably morphed into monica lewinsky. Who knows what happened in that “private” White House meeting with nobama?
I thought that swearing these people in and putting them on the stand to testify to this would prove it out and then I remembered, ‘wait, this is Clinton, he’ll lie right through this like as natural and as relaxed as if he was combing his hair.’
I think this story sucks. These non-jobs make no sense, it would not have been worth Clinton’s time to offer these petty advisory roles, these are lies, we are being told a falsehood.
These memos reek of over-lawyered contrivances. They reached Sestak and told him to agree to this and this goes away, or else he will be in the midst of a federal indictment that brings down both he and the Obama White House.
I want Clinton sworn in - I want to see him say “I did not have sex with that Congressman.”
The WH sat on this for months and if this was only the extent of the quid pro quo job offer it should have been dealt with in minutes - but of course it is fabricated. These advisory panels are lies and Clinton offered him a real job with money and power to stay out of the race. It is the height of irony if Arlen Specter brings down Obama and the entire Democratic Party - the has-been was more useful to the Republicans and the nation as a selfish traitor.
I don’t believe this story. Not a single word of it.
They are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to undo the damage.
Trouble is it’s all piling up and they can’t stop it.
Party my friend, party ... thicker than oil and blood.
Tyrants are like that.
Obama’s presidency is in trouble. Even Clinton recognizes that. As does the Media does.
They are trying to circle the wagons. They are trying to wake Obama up.
Even the supportive, lap-dog media cannot continue to support or give tacit approval to Obama’s incompetence. They are trying to signal that to Obama.
The question now is how current events and actions will impact Obama’s ego.
I am reminded of my favorite Star Trek quote from the Frengi Rules of Acquisition..."the bigger the smile, the sharper the knife"
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