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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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bubba; clintoon; corrupt; despots; fubo; lyingcriminals; obama; sestak; sestakgate; sestakobama; sleaze
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To: malkee

Wouldn’t you know Bill Clinton would somehow end up in another impeachment case? LOL


61 posted on 05/28/2010 2:36:15 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: La Enchiladita

;-)


62 posted on 05/28/2010 3:41:37 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: malkee

So conspiracy and bribes, pretty much status quo for Clinton


63 posted on 05/28/2010 3:41:52 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: vox_freedom
Ahhhhh, I didn't have intercourse conversation with that Sestak !!
64 posted on 05/28/2010 3:46:23 PM PDT by W-Girl
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To: W-Girl

Let’s wait for the DNA test.


65 posted on 05/28/2010 4:32:42 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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this is such an obvious lame, sham, fabricated piece of crap story...

it is so poor and flimsy i cant believe they are crapping this thing out as an explaination...

does anyone really believe this? if this is all it was, why the wait?


66 posted on 05/28/2010 4:34:12 PM PDT by raygunfan
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To: malkee

Possible senario...

WH Consigliere: OK gentlemen suppose we put out a statement that it was an unpaid “job”? Sestak has to bite.... This way we all win.

WH Wise Guy: Our man tells us Sestak will go for it.....

Obama: Issue the Statement.


67 posted on 05/28/2010 4:40:22 PM PDT by topfile
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To: malkee

Nonsense...It sure took a few days to trot out this lie.


68 posted on 05/28/2010 5:09:56 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: unspun

thx th


69 posted on 05/28/2010 5:22:44 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: malkee


“Did you plug the hole in your story yet, Daddy?”
 

70 posted on 05/28/2010 6:20:17 PM PDT by counterpunch (GOP: Government's Other Party)
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To: vox_freedom

or recycle the orange pumpkin one first zero wore...


71 posted on 05/28/2010 8:59:06 PM PDT by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: malkee

ALL LIARS!


72 posted on 05/28/2010 10:14:56 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: malkee
A Clinton time line is needed. Where was Bill?
73 posted on 05/29/2010 5:12:54 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: detective

It is, and that’s why it endears them to the uninformed American people.


74 posted on 05/29/2010 7:25:55 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: tina07

Actually, the American people as a whlole really believe in “their Bill.”


75 posted on 05/29/2010 7:27:09 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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