"ALOHA"
Posted on 05/29/2010 6:34:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
All of a sudden, everyone is talking about the possibility of impeaching Barack Obama.
Drudge is writing about it. Sean Hannity is talking about it. Dick Morris is saying that the potential scandal is "enormous.". Karl Rove called it an "extraordinary charge." WorldNetDaily.com wrote that "it could be grounds for impeachment."
What happened? The story surrounding the alleged bribe of Congressman Joe Sestak initially broke way back in February. We wrote about it then, but it never broke out into the mainstream media. But because of activist pressure and the courageous work of California Congressman Darrell Issa the story refused to die.
ImpeachObamaCampaign.com alone has delivered more than 750,000 petitions to Congress in support of impeachment. Make no mistake, patriotic Americans are driving this sudden turn of events. It is a testament to what can happen when patriotic Americans refuse to look the other way, and they make their voices heard in a real and meaningful way. It didn't hurt that Obama has failed to answer the questions surrounding the attempted bribe of Congressman Joe Sestak.
So did Barack Hussein Obama commit a felony by offering Congressman Joe Sestak a "high ranking" Cabinet position to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate race against Sen. Arlen Specter?
Let's be clear. The commission of an actual felony is not actually required in order to impeach a sitting president, but if Sestak's allegation is true, and if Barack Hussein Obama's fingerprints are all over this offer, that's a felony, and drawing up Articles of Impeachment against Barack Obama becomes a necessity.
According to Judge Andrew Napolitano with Fox News: "Federal law makes it a felony to offer 'anything of value' to an official of the government in return for a decision in your favor by that official of the government; it is called bribery."
And Congressman Darrell Issa has been relentlessly pushing the matter. He's called on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the allegation, but Holder is essentially ignoring the request.
Recently, Issa directly challenged Holder: "You don't answer or apparently investigate. ... You're not investigating whether it's a false statement by a member of Congress or a crime by the White House. What are we to do?"
Back in February, Sestak confirmed to Larry Kane, a Philadelphia talk-show host, that the White House dangled a "high ranking" job in front of him to convince him to drop his primary challenge against incumbent Arlen Specter.
Initially, the Obama White House denied the accusation. According to a Fox News report: "White House official told Fox News that Sestak is expected to 'clarify' the allegation."
But Sestak didn't take the hint... he didn't "clarify" the accusation.
He stood by his statement and told Fox News: "I was asked a direct question yesterday and I answered it honestly."
Just prior to the Pennsylvania primary, Issa confronted Holder directly, but Holder refused to comment on the case. When Issa questioned Holder on why he had not responded to his request for a special prosecutor, Holder simply said that he thought he had responded to the request and offered his apologies.
Is it possible that Sestak lied, or that he was simply mistaken?
It seems unlikely as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued the following carefully guarded statement to the press: "I'm told whatever conversations have been had are not problematic" and Gibbs added that the matter was "in the past."
Stonewalling... obstruction... but it's clear by Gibbs' statement that someone made Sestak an offer.
Keeping in mind that only Barack Obama has the authority to appoint an individual to his own Cabinet, the only question that remains is: What did Obama know and when did he know it?
The American people deserve an answer.
I think this is WAI above Sandy Burgler sort of crime. Clinton wasn’t in office when Sandy went in and did his thang. This is a sitting usurper, who is already on very thin ice. Why do you think Clinton is following him around lately like a “respected” elder statesman??? When the DNC has to send Clinton as a minder for Obama, you have to KNOW it’s bad.
So bad, that Clinton is willing to risk his “Legacy” the only thing that matters to him now!!
Good point.
The strategy should be to go after Sestak as being a liar, after all, he must be a liar because it’s not even close to the reality revealed by the Whitehouse. After hammering him like crazy for a few months he’ll either lose (in which case we have a senate seat) or he will defend himself and HE will be the one making the accusation against Obama. By then the November elections will be over.
So black presidents get to commit felonies because people are afraid of what 13% of the population might do to keep their felon in office? Not me. Let the chips fall where they may. I will not live under racial tyranny or any other kind of tyranny.
Barack Obama is half white.
"ALOHA"
In a word, NO!!!!!
That's all we need is for Republicans to become known as the "impeachment party." Republicans did it to Clinton and now conservatives are pushing for Republicans to do it to Obama. We should fight our political battles in the court of public opinion and at the ballot box, not this way.
0bamas’ hidden records: Why are these off-limits?
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
(Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
This supposed revelation of 0’s SS records has been debunked here and here.)
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Page 11 of Stanley Ann Dunham’s divorce decree.
24 Why isn’t Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why isn’t Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents?
Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.
Well, the "people" are not afraid of 13 % of the population, it's the politicians.
The citizen actually has very little say in whether or not the usurper gets impeached or not.
As another freeper pointed out correctly, impeachment is a political act, not a legal one. The people have no recourse other than hold their representatives accountable if they give Obama a pass
The Clintons are shrewd political operators. They are still smarting from the press treating them like Republicans during the election, but they haven’t lost sight of their goal - Hillary in the WH.
IMHO, everything they do and say is a strategy to get Hillary in the WH. Anyone who trusts the Clintons is a fool. They are power addicts, and ruthless masters at getting there.
He can name names......Does waterboarding...comes to mind?
Kucinich filed probably ten sets of impeachment papers against W. Nobody, even the more serious DSUSA moonbats, picked up on them. I would expect the same with 0.
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That is the truth. It is the legacy of letting the government "educate" children. If Reagan had been able to keep his pledge to abolish the department of education. Two simple reforms:
1. Abolish the US Department of Education.
2. Net tax payers vote. No one else.
The only problem with impeachment is we’d have Biden as president. He’s a dumb as dirt but not as scary as BO.
As dirty as they all are the chances of impeachment are more remote than monkeys flying out of my butt. Just sayin’
I dont think impeachment is the right option. Republicians would appear mean spirited ganging up on the first POTUS and as mentioned we’d be stuck with Biden. Better just to beat him over the head with this issue for the next 2 1/2 years.
“According to Judge Andrew Napolitano with Fox News: “Federal law makes it a felony to offer ‘anything of value’ to an official of the government in return for a decision in your favor by that official of the government; it is called bribery.””
Official of the Government - yes Sestak is a Congressman. But he’s running for Senate. The “decision in your favor” is not in his official capacity as a Congressman, the “decision in your favor” is in his capacity as a candidate. A candidate is not an official of the government.
I think there’s a law about tampering with elections. What does that one say?
It is a pipe dream unless and until there is a SOLID Republic Majority in both the US Senate and US House of Represenatives, as of the afternoon of 3 January 2011.
Not necessarily. If enough Dem congress critters place their own hide above the party to stay in office, and vote for impeachment would work too. IMHO
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