Sestak: Once again, it’s the “coverup” – or is it?
Since Watergate, it’s been the cliché that it’s the coverup, not the crime, that leads our public officials to perdition. And that’s basically the position regarding the Rep. Sestak scandal taken by Chris Cillizza in The Fix. Cillizza quotes some nervous — naturally anonymous — Democratic strategists:
“How do you make something out of nothing?,” asked one such operative who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the matter. “By acting guilty when you’re innocent.”
Another senior party official said that the White House “has a lot of egg on their face” and described the events as a “PR nightmare”.
Of course in the case of Sestak and his putative job offer, we have no idea what actually happened. But we do know the sleaze factor is high — and not just because of the presence of Bill Clinton whose SQ (Sleaze Quotient) may be even higher than his IQ. Clinton is merely a product of “The Culture of Narcissism.” Obama et al are the product of something worse — “The Culture of Chicago.”
Frankly, I have a tad of nostalgia for Clinton because, Monica excluded, he was a much more sensible (and honest — believe it or not?) man than Obama and far less of a threat to our country and the world. Not nearly as much went wrong under eight years of Clinton’s watch than in less than two years of Obama’s. It’s pathetic, actually, that Bill is now so willing, as apparently he was, to carry water for the new president in this kind of cheesy operation. Can you imagine George W. Bush doing such a thing for some Republican president? I can’t.
But the real issue now is not the “Deep Dish Sleazemeisters” from Chicago. They are who they are. Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama are all cut from the same cloth.
The real issue is our media — the Fourth Estate that we all are supposed to depend on to vet these people. When Nixon was president, they did so with an alacrity hitherto unseen. With Obama, as we all know, it has been completely the reverse. The press’ record on investigating the president — as a candidate and in office — has been nothing short of embarrassing. Even at the recent press conference, the first in months, only Fox News’ Major Garrett and ABC’s Jake Tapper disported themselves as genuine journalists. The rest appeared like Izvestia wannabes at a Moscow presser circa 1962, only slightly better dressed.
So now the time has come. The public has turned against the president. The media has nothing to lose but its sad preconceptions and its laughable elitism. And there are plenty of things to investigate. Sestak is the least of it (although Dick Morris thinks it a felony). So too is the oil spill (an accident). These are not even the big stories. The big ones are about an economy that is in free fall, a foreign policy that allows dictators to flourish around the world and a Justice Department that has gone miles off the reservation. (PJ Media will be looking into that last one. Stay tuned.) Will new Woodwards and Bernsteins appear in the mainstream media to investigate any of these subjects? Or are they too much “true believers” to dare? So far, there is no reason to be optimistic.
The press has been so easy on The One…so much in his corner…I honestly wonder if some of them haven’t been paid off. This is the first president in modern times who was not vetted by the press. They have NO curiosity about Obami. His early life, his schools, grades, friends, or religion.
It’s as though Obami was dropped from the sky to become potus.
How many recently unemployed journalists, both print and TV, are now employed by the White House? It’s a given that the White House will do everything they can to protect the MSM (including proposed bailout funding), and then if a paper or a network or a TV show *does* fail and go belly-up financially because no one in the RealWorld wants to pay for their guff any more, then those journalists can hie their little butts off to DC and get re-hired on the taxpayer’s dime as a speech-writer or a PR flak or a “researcher”.
There was no need to pay off any members of the press. They already belonged to the church, and were eager to sing in the choir.
The MSM is comprised of folks who, since the middle 60s, took it on themselves to ‘make a difference’ in an unjust world. So from anti-war actions, to civil rights, and from then onward through all the agenda items of the left: the PC extensions from civil rights into the cancers of entitlements and preferences and entrenched tribalism, the anti-Americanism inherited from the Soviets, the anti-corporatist slant of the economically illiterate, and the evil ‘income inequality’ which is the fall-back mantra of all collectivists, excepting their cadres of course.
Obama was the gleaming symbol of their lifetime hopes, and he was the ‘difference’ they had been committed to making ever since those old glory days of sex, drugs and rock & roll. News purveyors to citizens? Who are you kidding? They had always been in the media for the purpose of molding public opinion, and the news was simply the sugar coating on their motivational pill.
No way were they interested in the background or the lifetime activities or the companions or the lifetime goals of candidate Obama. The rubes whose opinions they were molding just might not understand the imperatives driving that candidate. It was enough that he had the skin and the degrees and the gift of gab. The future would take care of itself after the inauguration.
Bravo! Well said!
The appearances alone are horrible: A current president and a former president colluding to break the law. I guess that’s Washington in a nutshell for ya.
DEMOCRATS AT THEIR BEST..Clinton is truly a master.
It amazes me that no matter what these guys do, the press says, “yessah massa” and plod along …
My guess is that Rahm Emanuel screwed the pooch big time. He may have also broken the law unknowingly! Emanuel is a Chicago politician and stuff like this is probably done all the time. No big whoopee. The damage is mind boggling. It might be the final straw that breaks the back of the Obama presidency. The odds are increasing that the president will resign by no later than January for “health reasons”.
Many of those earning a living in the MSM are worried about their financial future. Will they even be employed a year from now? They subconsciously thought Obama might be able to save them. There was also no sense in upsetting the left-wing establishment that could possibly find them a new job. This is what you can take for granted: these journalists are placing their wet finger into the air to see which way the wind is blowing. Will sticking with Obama benefit them?
“And I want for Patricia a job like Michelle’s at the hospital,” -
Is this news for you?
I am not happy about the way this is unfolding…why WJC would do anything to help this White House is beyond comprehension. And do I believe this is the only time Obama & Co. have pressured someone? NO WAY. There are more stories similar to this one, I keep hoping The Enquirer or Breitbart will get the skinny on this very unusual President and his inner circle.
I am really surprised at the scale of this story. It has grown so fast and so far that the White House had to drag Bill Clinton into the scheme . I will wager that not one person out of twenty believes the Administrations story because it sounds like a cockamamie pile of sh–.
These liars don’t understand that each lie becomes more pathetic than the last.
The coordinated press release on this says Clinton offered Sestak an unpaid position on some commission. This, as Jonah Goldberg put it, is a third-rate offering. Indeed. So, we are to believe the administration needed to send Bill Clinton to offer this guy an unpaid position on some obscure commission? Obama and Clinton reportedly had lunch a day or two ago, presumably to get their stories straight. Sestak, obviously gotten to, immediately released his own confirmation of the WH’s account…yup, yup, that’s exactly what happened alright.
I might be believable that Sestak is such a fool that he made a media mountain of the tiny molehill of this “third-rate” offer. But I don’t buy it because of Clinton’s involvement. It is simply not believable they would send Clinton, or that Clinton would agree, to offer this guy some insignificant appointment not tied to something else. There will be more to come.
It’s also not believable that the White House would think that an ambitious politician would be tempted to trade in his chance at a higher elected office for some non-paying, third-rate job.
That the Obama administration is utterly incompetent at things like economic policy is not at all surprising — considering the fact that most of them have never held a productive job and have absolutely no idea how businesses operate.
But that they are so incompetent at crooked politics — which is supposedly their core expertise — is really shocking. Just like the idiot Democrats in Congress couldn’t cut a few mundane back-room payoffs to buy necessary healthcare votes without it becoming public knowledge, the White House can’t pull-off a simple bribe attempt without getting Clinton involved and having the whole thing blow up in their face.
And on top of that, they can’t even make up semi-plausible lie to cover their tracks.
These clowns would be laughable were it not for all the damage they are doing to our country and our economy.
“These clowns would be laughable were it not for all the damage they are doing to our country and our economy.”
I altogether agree. I believe that the oil spill is a perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency: it’s a colossal disaster. Cleaning these Chicago thugs out of the Augean Stables of a White House will be only a first, tiny step. The deep and far-reaching damage they’re doing, at every level, will take decades to ameliorate. Some things, of course, will never be the same.
The MSM have blood on their hands.
“Will new Woodwards and Bernsteins appear in the mainstream media to investigate any of these subjects?”
An army of Woodwards and Bernsteins will investigate these subjects.
It is also unbeliveable that during this continued time of severe unemployment, no Woodward and Bernstien even try’s to make a buck from attempting to get at the real truth in the Obama/Clinton Triangle. Even a re-make of Bob & Carol Ted, and Alice in bed as it was, Obama, B. Clinton, Emanuel, H. Clinton, trying to get thier stories together under the sheets as it were.
Punk ass stealing tax money to finance decadent & luxurious fantasy’s from the throne while the empire he doesn’t oversee actually languishes in oil.
In Lewis Carroll’s humpty-dumpty, we see the title character agreeing that words have meanings, but the meanings have to be what he wants them to be.
Too clever by half, I say, because in trying to avoid the fate of Humpty-Dumpty, the deformed soul in the Oval Office wound up in the same predicament.
Well, get ready for the clean up, for the mess makes the clean up of the Gulf of Mexico situation look tiny by comparison.
Why is Bill carrying water indeed?
Methinks Obama is getting played by the Clintons. If Bill turns into a witness in the future, bet on it.
Like they ‘played’ him during HRC’s run for the brass ring?
Power.
Why would Bill Clinton get involved?
For a place on the SCOTUS. A nice lifetime appointment where he would wield emmense power without accountability. A Dem controlled Congress would easily confirm him and the MSM would do anything to place their beloved ‘Bubba’ in such a position.
Who here is the least bit surprised at the story they’ve concocted? Personally I’d love to see an all out investigation come mid January 2011. For now the reining question should be from the voters of PA to Sestak to man up and tell the truth. His silence will guarantee him a loss as it should be.
“And I want for Patricia a job like Michelle’s at the hospital,” -
“This is not the Tony Rezko I know” -
“I never had sex with that woman, Monica Levinsky” -
“No controlling authority” -
“It depends on what do you mean by is – ‘is’ can be ‘was’, ‘has been’, ‘will’ and so on” -
“God damn’ America!”
“I won” -
The horse head was in Clinton’s bed. Obama, Rahm, et al must have something REALLY big on Clinton to have convinced him to act as front man on this one.
100% on target. You know it and the rest of us know it. Medina, AK?
Do you mean ‘Mena’? Well, that story has been out for a while. You mean to suggest they are blackmailing WJC? Would not be nice…
The latest Clinton/Obama/Sustak lie not even Linda Loveless in her prime could swallow.
Easily, I could have written a story about the ineptness and bias of David Gregory who has Tim Russert spinning in his grave as Dave disgraces the job of moderator of “Meet the Press.” All Dave had to ask Sestak on last Sunday’s show was, “are you talking about a paid job when you say you were offered a job to leave the race against Arlen Specter?” But Gregory was ordered by the White House to leave Sestak some wiggle room for today’s lie that Clinton offered Sestak an unpaid position, not really a job. Do we have to have a stained blue dress every we need a Democrat to admit a lie?
But this story is about a proven liar, Bill Clinton, who the White House wants us to believe was specially selected to offer Joe Sestak a dime-a-dozen advisory position that doesn’t even pay a nickle in exchange for leaving the race.
Is this the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Is this where independents by the precinct full realize that Barack Obama is chief of the Frequent Liar’s Club; that he has accumulated so many frequent liar miles that he can travel free to the moon and back for the rest of his pants-on-fire life? Does anybody, of any nationality anywhere still think that Obama is a transparent straight shooter who can bring a new kind of civility and ethics to the Presidency?
Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to let you in on a little secret. Barack Obama has the honesty of a pickpocket. Has the integrity of a child molester. Has the ethics of a grave robber. He was elected by a gullible people who the American showman, P. T. Barnum, had in mind when he coined the phrase, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Well, I, Rachel Peepers, invite you to join me in drawing a line in the sand. This is as far as it goes. It goes without saying that we will never vote for Obama again. Yet, it also goes without saying that I’m convinced Obama will never run again. For anything. His band of thieves saw America’s financial crisis as a golden opportunity to make millions in untraceable Stimulus, Bailout, Job’s Bill, ObamaCare, you name it, money. And hell or high water they were going to pocket every, ever-lovin’ cent. At a cost, of course. The American people are dumb sometimes, but not that dumb. The latest Clinton/Obama/Sustak lie not even Linda Loveless in her prime could swallow.
I’m so sorry. If we’d had one honest person; one stained blue dress; we might have been able to make Barack admit the truth. But we can’t. Liars more often than not get away with it. When they’re President, too many creeps are willing to cover for them. And this is the most corrupt Democratic Administration in history.
Clinton, both Bill and Hillary, notorious liars in their own right, now hope they’ve stumbled upon a lying favor that gets Hillary the Democratic nomination for Presidency in 2012. Were it to happen it would represent a huge stain on the American Presidency. One that may never come out.
Absolutely on target. They (Obama/Clinton,Chicago Gang/) will grab the TARP money and hide. We Americans (well most of us who read…) are not stupid.
The only comfort I have, is that someday, these people will face the ultimate discomfort of death. The money/wealth/power cannot buy any form of redemption. I just wish I could be there to witness the ultimate desperation these soul-less humans will finally realize.
MSM writers and executives have made it very clear that they value the use of their jobs to promote their personal political agendas much more highly than they value their responsibilities to their readers and to their shareholders.
The president is a weakling. Without MIA lame stream media to prop him up, he will crash and burn like Jimmy Carter, just like Howard Dean and so on.
I don’t believe this story for a minute. It doesn’t pass the smell test.
This is akin to offering someone a few trinkets for their island…
Wh-wha-WHAT?
D-d-d-do ya mean an ADMIRAL of the NEW Ninted States NAVY w-w-would LIE?
And he did so very well at it too, just like Willy.
But you can see the upshot right? The Dems in Penn. hear Sustak,Sustak,Sustak — the name is firmly implanted. Dem voters are vaguely aware that Sustak is being unairly treated by Republicans over something that doesn’t sound too unforgivable–and he went to the USNA! He was just following the truthful code of conduct he learned there! (I just heard that one on the radio). I feel sorry for Toomey–am I even spelling his name correctly? Who knows, as the poor guy will never get any press.
Pat Toomey supporters best start being heard NOW!!! or he will be a has been before the election!!..
Sestak = Liar
I just don’t see Obama taking a fall for this. He’s a shallow man who is in over his head, but he is in the control of others that will prop him up. This will never faze Clinton.
Made me angry to watch him in Grand Isle today. Like he’s in control of anything.
The Incompetent-in-Chief strikes again — looking like a bumbling idiot on the world stage and nothing close to being presidential in substance or depth. As usual, this sad, shallow individual is blaming others (if it’s not Bush, it’s BP) and not offering up any solution to the crisis, except another idiotic commission to look into the tragedy. This week he made his first trip to the Gulf since the worse environmental disaster to hit American shores — and this only after his more important priorities — a San Francisco fundraiser and watching NBA basketball.
Contrast that with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who daily is on the ground showing his passion and compassion for the state he is responsible for — talking about booms and other disaster clean-up courses of action, picking up thick oil with his hands and desperately asking Washington for support. These aren’t photo ops. You know this man is committed to, and cares about the people, geography and economy he was elected to serve. Very presidential and so vastly different from the Arrogant-In-Chief, Ditherer-in-Chief, Ideology First-in-Chief, Blamer-in-Chief and Double Standard-in-Chief.
America: you know what to do in November 2010 and November 2012. Let’s get rid of dithering, expediency, apologists for our great country and, most of all, of incompetence.
But what’s 888?
I thought ’888′ was a Nazi thing.
Because you can’t refute or rebut the message, you shoot the messenger. So typical. How sad.
You know something’s wrong when even Carville is criticizing him, and Democrat candidates don’t want him anywhere near them.
Really, I was just asking what ’888′ meant, based on some past encounters with it. So if you’re saying you’re a Jindal guy with ‘just a touch of Adolph’ you can go away. If not, you would answer the question.
Democrats pander to fringe elements. Conservatives DO NOT. We abide with principles, and despite all of your patriotism, I’m sure, you err on one exceptional point.
Conservatives DO NOT NEED RACISTS! The only reason you find yourself in Conservative circles is because you refuse blacks, and whoever else, equal opportunity and appropriate redress. You ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE. You ARE A FRINGE STATIST!
I guess you can’t come up with an intelligent response or rebuttal, so you ask an irrelevant question.
My favorite version of 888.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati_888
YEAH, RIGHT!
You HURT us. GO AWAY, please!
No? Please, answer one question: Adolph Hitler: burning in hell, yes or no?
In early Christian numerology, 888 refers to Christ. Tarot numerology ascribes “reason and wisdom” to 888. Haven’t heard of the Hitler angle. What’s that all about?
someone please explain why this is different from hillary dropping out of the primary and then becoming secretary of state.
Because Hillary didn’t make an announcement during the primaries that someone from Team Obama made her a job offer to drop from the race, as Sestak did. That’s the difference. Use your head……
I was not going to post at all, but this was so wildly, factually incorrect that it is just stunning.
Hillary did NOT drop out of the primaries. She campaigned all the way trhough 6/4/08, then conceded some days later. The whole thing about the campaign was that she took it the whole distance, which is very unusual.
She got SecofState in exchange for her endorsement. Without it, perhaps more Dems stay home or vote McCain.
Anyway, it is one thing for competing candidates to make a deal for one to drop out. It is something else for someone else to try such a deal-making. Only the boxers in the ring get to throw a punch.
The USA is not Chicago,Venezuela,or Zimbabwe.Impeach the bastard!
Deguello (#20):
Talk of impeachment is not only patently delusional, it’s just a demonstrably bad idea.
Sure, the Constitution specifically mentions “bribery” as grounds for impeachment, but consider: in order for that to happen, the House of Representatives has to vote articles of impeachment. Do you seriously think that a Democrat-controlled House, under Nancy Pelosi, will do that?
Then, once that hurdle has been passed, the Senate, by a 2/3 vote, has to convict. Do you further think that a Democrat-controlled Senate, under Harry Reid, will do that?
Finally, assuming that those two events occur, we are faced with the prospect of (you might want to sit down for this) President Joe Biden. And if that prospect isn’t frightening enough, take a look at who’s waiting in the bullpen after Biden: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Let’s face it: President Obama is safe as a kitten.
Finally, after all of the so called birther’s complaints and unsuccessful attempts to out the “president” because he is NOT a natural born citizen, Obama is coming down hard because of his felonious Chicago-style tactics; and due also to Obama’s infamous heavy-handed no-holds-barred campaigning for his health care plan.
OBAMA FINALLY GOT HIS TIT IN THE RINGER.
Several months ago, Obama was facing certain embarrassment if his health-care plan had failed. Obama therefore campaigned hard to get every Senate vote that he could — promising ANYTHING to ANYONE that would help him. Double-crossing dirt-bag Arlen Specter crossed his own morals, his reputation, and his party to help Obama. Anything to get re-elected. So he dealt with the Devil (Obama) and it seems that the deal included the Devil trying to help get Specter re-elected at any cost.
For Obama that meant, when the time came, he would make Sestak an offer he might accept in exchange for dropping out of the primary against Specter. Note that Bill Clinton, White House Councel, Obama, and others in this fiasco are attorneys. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Talk is that patsy Bill Clinton was the one who approached Sestak to try and talk him out of running against Obama’s darling, Arlen Specter, in exchange for a high-ranking job in the White House.
What makes it patently clear that Obama and Bauer are dishonest in their reply is that Bill Clinton is NOT, as Sestak has claimed, a White House official able to fit the description given of who contacted Sestak, according to Sestak. Furthermore, you have to be an idiot to believe that the “job offer” to Sestak was simply a non-paying adviser job???? This instead of becoming a Senator with Senator’s pay and prestige? Me thinks the offer from Obama was one of a “higher” kind of job inside the White House. Can you spell f-e-l-o-n-y? Can you spell j-a-i-l t-i-m-e for Obama.
Consider that Bill Clinton is NOT a White House official. “Sestak told a Philadelphia television anchor Larry Kane he had received a job offer from the White House…” – rightpundits.com: http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=5926.
Is the Obama Administration lying? The Philadelphia Journal reported on Feb. 19, 2010, “A White House spokesman this morning strongly denied Sestak had been offered (a job) yesterday. Before the spokesman issued the denial a senior Pennsylvania Democrat yesterday said White House officials there were angered by Sestak’s account.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20100219_Sestak_says_federal_job_was_offered_to_quit_race.html#axzz0pH303t4O.
Today, May 28th, 2010, Obama admits there was an (illegal and felonious) offer of a high-position job made to Sestak to encourage him to leave the race (is this election tampering, too). Actions taken by Obama are illegal and punishable by impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Although I believe that Obama is NOT the legitimate president, Congress may not need to impeach him, just merely walk his butt over to the nearest jail house.
You know, this blame Clinton for the Sestak scandal is actually brilliant strategy. When it comes to outright lying, deceit and slander, the Democratic party are masters of the universe.
I got to thinking, the jackboots in the community agitater’s camp can blame Clinton, and in return pay off Hillary’s campaign debts with some of the ‘porkulus’ fund. In return, Clinton, a proven liar under oath will never tell the truth again being he’s already disbarred. What’s he got to lose? His reputation?
The only way to get the truth out of Clinton would be to water board him.
In return, Rahmbo & Obama don’t have to be the fall guys for committing another felony. While Caesar Obama fiddles and the Gulf Coast looks like a drilling pit while the economy burns, Obama is out playing golf in the woods, Rahmbo takes off for Israel where he is summarily booed at his son’s bar mitzvah, and neither of them are even around to take the heat on their typical Friday release of more horrid news.
I’m beginning to find a new found respect for how masterful these goons really are. You got to give credit where credit is due.
Don’t forget to include Andrew Romanoff on the list. Apparently, it is one of the transparent White House’s protocols. Offering jobs, that, when it starts getting hairy, starts getting found out, are unsurprisingly unsalaried positions. Whew, that felony charge was a close one.
Welcome to Chicago on the Potomac. I guess what obama meant by transparency was Chicago style transparency. I guess what obama meant by openess and integrity in politics was based on Chicago style openess and integrity. Can you really blame him? He knows nothing that was not fed into his empty head, if it is not on a teleprompter he can’t say it, so why do you expect him to be able to think. Can you really blame the puppet for what the puppeteers make him do and say? It is interesting to note that at least they chose someone to make the contact with Sestak who is a known, proven perjurer so they don’t have to worry about him hesitating to lie again. Anyway, don’t hold your breath waiting for this Justice Department to take any action.
I think Obama is another Teflon President in the Reagan mold.
Oh hell no!!
The Reagan mold ? Are you kidding? 0 is in the Castro mold, only he is half as good as Castro. Half a dic tator you pic the half. After seeing this idiot get elected it makes me think we need to raise the voting age to 30 so those idiots are at least out of school for a year before they vote.
Chicago politics what a surprise. No leadership just pay to play. The only good thing that could come from this is he could also be the first black president to be impeached. The man could just be setting records left and right, worst president ever, a contender for most corrupt all the dems FDR forward are in the running. Dumbest man to enter the white house. We have gone from the best in recent history Reagan, to Bonzo who would probably be better at it than the idiot in chief in the white house now.
Despite these stream of consciousness/wishful thinking attacks on Obama, his approval rating has been fairly stable over the past year.
For Mitt Romney or whoever to stand a chance winning in 2012 the Right will have to come up with better attacks on Obama than “We don’t like him!”
Fairly stable, and below 50%! 47.4% today according to RCP’s combined average. He won with 53%… not good(well, for those of us that are aghast at the current dismantling of our America, it’s actually very good)! Bush was still in the high 70′s at this point into his first term. A no-nonsense, tax-cutting, and job-creating conservative will beat him handily. America is seriously disappointed in this outfit. Nice dream though!
Still good enough to beat Palin/McCain, who only got 45% of the vote.
Unless you really think Mitt Romney will do better?
You’re right, Obama’s approval ratings have been fairly stable – stable as in rotten.
We will return him to the role of community agitater first chance possible.
Hey did you just call him 0 as in zero?
That’s a fantastic name: President O as in zero!!
any reason my comment was not accepted?
You didn’t say phuck or something, did you? This site has a problem with certain five… err, four letter words!
For a story like this to have legs the MSM has to hop on it. That won’t happen for obvious reasons. So it will peter out and be seen as no more than a tempest in a tea pot. Bill still enjoys a reservoir of good will despite everything. Bringing in him to put a face on the deal was inspired. He’s the only one who could have helped them pull it off.
As I have said from day one, Obama is nothing more than a street corner hustler that hit the big time.
Brevity is the soul of wit, I think you sum him up correctly.
Just a working notion, but….Obama, the honesty of a Clinton with the competence of a Carter.
( It’s a start. )
Does anyone believe for a second the law wasn’t broken? Like #3 DThompson above, this is routine Chicago-style pizza, er, I mean politics. Oops, I’ve been getting those two mixed up since 1-20-09.
Here’s how it goes in Chicago:
“OK, see, my friend Rocky here will get you a job in the Mayor’s office, if you’ll just withdraw your campaign for this City Council position. But Rocky gets upset when the wrong people run against his friends on the City Council. And there’s no telling what Rocky will do if he gets upset. So all you have to do is appear at a little ‘ol press conference at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow and announce you are withdrawing. I hope you don’t mind, but to save you the trouble, we’ve taken the liberty of calling a press conference for you.”
They’ve already been caught selling one Senate seat, so what’s one more?
Members of the MSM have fantasized all their lives that a President in their own dream image would one day be elected. That day arrived with the election of the individual presently disgracing the Office of the President.
Because Obama is in their own dream image the MSM cannot do anything but worship. Luckily there is a place called not the media where information lives. As #8 David W. Lincoln says, the deformed soul in the Oval Office is leaving a big league mess. Not the media needs to be all over this like a dirty shirt.
okay james I’ll rephrase.
hillary took the SOS job in exchange for dropping out. Why is that not a crime?
Hillary was not quid pro quo and Obama was not in a position to deliver anything. He wasn’t elected yet.
It was an agreement of equals.
This is about an elected official trying to influence events by using the position in an unlawfull manner.
I must be dense, for I do not understand what would have been (or was) wrong in offering Sestak a job at the White House in exchange for not running against Arlen Specter. (I do not support President Obama at all, but I really don’t think it was wrong for him to offer a job to Sestak in exchange for not running against Specter.)
It is prohibited by law to do so, it is illegal. One would be bribing an official for a certain action and trying to effect the out come of an election. Just like stuffing ballot boxes, finding votes in car trunks, having the dead vote, multiple votes by ineligible people, all of which have been done by the dems.
Your agreement with, or understanding of, the law (or mine for that matter) is irrelevant to the fact that this law says that what was done, by admission in the Friday memo, is plainly illegal. The use of an intermediary who is not a government employee is irrelevant. The fact that there was supposedly no monetary compensation is irrelevant. An inducement was offered to discourage someone who intended to run for office. It is an open and shut case – if one reads the Friday memo at face value, it is a literal admission of guilt.
Is it a bad law? Well, the people in the Clinton administration who wrote it apparently didn’t think so, but perhaps their opinion is now becoming more nuanced!?
Rodger:
Nothing is likely to change here. The goal is to burn the house down period… And a mighty fine job is being done thank you very much. The fact that the MSM is complicit is the real icing on the cake for the current occupiers of the halls of Congress “in the MSM they do trust”.
We have unvarnished evil in the White House seeking the destruction of all that is good. The real question is just how much Americans have decided they will tolerate and can America regain its true foundation; the foundation of “In God we trust”. The Truth is at war with the lies. If history and the Word of God is a teacher then the Left will be consumed by an unquenchable fire. The deluded do not see their destruction coming but come it will as sure as the Sun rises in East. But what does the Revelation of Jesus Christ say? “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” What a choice! Given the choice, how many will separate themselves and just how should they do it? A question the MSM should ponder immediately.
We all have to choose, some already have and it will be increasingly apparent in the days and weeks to come what choices have been made. Still today there is time for changing the mind, tomorrow maybe not. No one will be allowed to say “but I didn’t know” the Truth has been repeated over and over and over again. There is no excuse for liars. Opinions don’t count. It is not just what we say, it is really about what we do.
I think the American people are starting to awaken. The lackluster campaign by McCain caused a lot of apathy and a low turnout. In essence most people did not see much difference between the two both were less than desirable. The first time voters were all caught up in the left wing lunacy that has been the ruination of governments world wide and now hopefully a lot of them are in the 35 million that are unemployed. This mess maybe tougher to clean up than the one that was left by Carter who should get the title of the father of modern terrorism.
We can only hope that republicans can take over both houses and stop the agenda of 0. Further an impeachment would be great. Then we can concentrate on Joe the unknowing and lock him in a bath room or something so he can’t mess things up more than they already are.
Bill Clinton aka Slick Willie, aka ”I didn’t inhale” aka ”I didn’t have sex with that woman” – only makes the whole thing laughable, talk about lack of credibility, Clinton is so full of bullshit, a total sleaze. Add in the Chicago gangsters, you have the makings for a great comedy version of ”The Sopranos” – the mainstream media is missing a great opportunity. Just look at the potential cast of characters in the Obama administration & the Dumbocrats, this is pure gold for satire.
AS a grudge match, I’m liking it: the Old MacBeth and his lady Hillary vs. the New MacBeth and his shrew Michelle. If Bill and Hillary together aren’t smart enough to de-throne these two poseurs then the Clinton Two deserve to be run out of both DC and NY. And now they’ve got Carville playing Iago. These are some serious knives coming out and aiming for Jugears’ back. I wonder what Kissinger is up to.
Get ready to find out that the President unexpectedly discovered his deeply felt wish to spend more time with his family. By virtue of the divine providence of poetic justice, he may find his glorious place in the record books, as the first man ever to meet the challenge of making joe Biden look presidential.
Is there going to be a Nobel prize for that? There should be!
Whats the point in posting comments on PJM articles if you ARBITRARILY cut them off at a certain point and the comments dont appear online.
This is the TRANSCRIPT of what Sestak said when he was first asked if he had been offered a job.
“Were you ever offered a job to get out of this race?” Kane was referring to the Democratic Senate primary against Arlen Specter.
“Yes,” Sestak answered.
“Was it Navy Secretary?”
“No comment,” said Sestak.
According to Kane, Sestak talked about staying in the race but added that he “was called many times” to pull out. Later, Kane asked:
“So you were offered a job by someone in the White House?”
“Yes.”
Notice how DIFFERENT that is from the BS we are all being asked to swallow now. Someone in the WHITE HOUSE offered him the job now last time I looked Bill Clinton was no longer in the WHITE HOUSE. But just for arguments sake lets accept that Clinton was the MESSENGER BOY seems he left NO DOUBT at all in Sestaks mind that he was the WHITE HOUSE messenger boy . That being the case WHO lives in the WHITE HOUSE well Obambi does and Ralph Emmanuel is OBAMBI’s BOY so if MESSENGER BOY Clinton carried a message from the WHITE HOUSE then it was from OBAMBI. I dont think Ralph Emmanuels writ allows HIM to make POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS without instruction of PERMISSION from the LYING MOHAMMEDAN BOGUS POTUS.
Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive.
Obama did not offer Congressman Stupid a job,
get this- it was Bill Clinton
calling from/for the White House that offered Congressman Stupid the NON-PAYING high Obama administration job to drop out of his race with Sen. Specter.
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What Bill Clinton was doing in the White House has not yet been revealed?
This is the same Bill Clinton that had NON-SEX with that woman Monica Lewinsky.
The same Bill Clinton that smoked marijuana but did a NON-INHALE.
The same Bill Clinton and Obama administration that would never lie to us.
Anyone that believes this Shite,
I have 20,000 shares of AIG stock I am willing to let go for 80 dollars a share.
He is doing a great job at the Gulf Coast.
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/05/pathetic-bp-buses-in-temps-for-obama.html
What is one picture worth?
Republicans and conservatives are sooo pissed off that this government is really accomplishing great things for the country that they start barking like demented dogs at any little distraction. Pathetic.
‘this government is really accomplishing great things for the country’
Name one example. Cite polling data concerning likely voter opinion on the specific example.
Vivo: Sweet talk Nurse Ratched for a weekend furlough or escape?
Vivo-the most pathetic thing on this blog is your body odor. Tell me , do you EVER take a bath or use any hygenic procedures?
Great things? Like transforming the country into a fascist state? Your understanding of “great things” is terribly flawed. But you don’t seem to have any actual, you know, FACTS to back up your mewling.
Vivo: Did George Soros assign you to this beat?
i laughed out loud when I read that Clinton had made the kind of, sort of, well, unpaid, job offer. This is as good as it gets! What a gift for the Republicans! Does anyone believe any of this? And if it is not true, even by a smidgen, Sestak is ruined, and by his own Party, no less. One thing for sure, it certainly lacks the ring of truth.
I certainly trust Pat Toomay has a series of commercials lined up with Sespuke lying thru his teeth that he was discusiing an unpaid voulnteer job to give up his Senate run. Im wondering if Snarlin Arlen might want to consider an independent run, since he and sespuke seem to have much in common.
Tell Mikey to go play marbles in the street.
On the money and well put.
‘This is not the Bill Clinton I knew..’ in 3, 2, 1..
chicago style politics dealt in by the white house mob ,,,nearly does the bastards in(some would say they are ego-maniacal)…they know however where to find a disbarred attorney who will do anything for you if the price is right…and
soooo they will escape the just deserts once again…..Mind you the piper will be paid and the beat of the drum says the time is coming for us all to watch them do themselves in… soon, very soon..early next year will do nicely Mr. Thompson!
ooops…I deeply regret missspelling Mr. Thomson.
Roger-the current crop of Media is too ideologically-driven to ever seriously investigate there ideogical soul mate. Sinc ethe media is full of communists, they will not complain about the current commie-in-cheat. It will take another generation, some brave journalism schools(i cant see Syracuse or UMissouri, two of the most notorius j-schools, changing there stripes soon) and tons of public pressure before media becomes the defenders of freedom they are supposed to be. Right now, its the blogger and the individual citizen-journalist defending freedom. Hopefully, America will wake up before the mainstink “media” and the commie-in-cheat destory America.
Bill told President Me that he already had the alibi line rehearsed:
It wasn’t a job offer offer.
misspelling,and desserts….not so much .but I digress….my god,Perto, what makes you think we don’t like the little fella?
NY Times front page today (Saturday May 29) covers the Sestak mess and really makes it sound as if Rahm was out there, being Rahm, the inveterate fixer and bully, etc etc. Just a flavor to the story that encourages me to bet dollars to donuts that Rahm is going to take the fall on this. Clinton is the first cut-out, Rahm is the second. But anybody who thinks Obama didn’t know and approve the deal, I have a bridge for sale.
“…why WJC would do anything to help this White House is beyond comprehension.”
Do you really think Willie wanted Hitlary to be prez?
43. vivo: “…this government is really accomplishing great things for the country…”
What ‘great things’?
The Press are whores.
Just what I thought:
bark, bark, bark!!
Still waiting for you to back up your assertion that Obama has done great things. And those great things are….?
Contradictions between the White House and Sestak accounts
The following contradictions exist between the official White House account and the original Sestak interview:
• White House: “White House staff did not discuss these options with Congressman Sestak.”
•: Sestak: Replied “Yes” to the question “you were offered a job by someone in the White House?”
• White House: “It has been suggested that discussions of alternatives to the Senate campaign were improperly raised with the Congressman. There was no such impropriety. ”
• Sestak: Replied “Yes” to the question “Were you ever offered a job to get out of this race?
• White House: “It has been suggested that the Administration may have offered Congressman Sestak the position of Secretary of the Navy in the hope that he would accept the offer and abandon a Senate candidacy. This is false.”
• Sestak: Replied “No comment” to the question “Was it Navy Secretary?”, when a simple “No” would have sufficed. In a separate interview, MSNBC says that Sestak did confirm the offer of the Secretary of the Navy position.
“If proven, the reported actions of the Obama administration are clear violations of three federal laws. The impact and fallout from documented violations, as well as the refusal of the Holder Justice Department to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate this matter, have the potential to eclipse the Watergate scandal of the early 1970’s – it is that serious.”
From: Timeline: The Sestak Bribe and the White House Coverup
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/timeline-sestak-bribe-and-white-house.html
The law regarding election bribery is very specific. Obama made the offer of a job to encourage Sestak to quit his primary opposition to Specter. It was Obama who owed Specter due to Specter’s voter for Obama’s health care bill. And, in return, Obama would give Sestak a job only Obama is qualified to offer. THE LAW AGAINST THIS TYPE OF BRIBERY WAS WRITTEN FOR THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR. It is a felony. It is worth an investigation. And, it should definitively lead to Obama’s impeachment and removal.
Those individuals, senators and congressmen who do not agree that this should be investigated are co-conspirators in this felony. It’s a shame that Obama’s Chicago-style politics tries to muck-up what should be free and fair elections; elections decided by voters and NOT by crooked politicians — the law is very clear on this point.
AdrianS on May 30, 2010 at 2:26 PM
How do you spell “special prosecutor,” Mr. Attorney General?
But wait, Eric Holder is part of the cover-up.
Don’t worry, the left-wing media will demand a full explanation of this violation of federal law.
Oh, they’re part of the cover-up, too?
Then, all that self-righteous Watergate press coverage was nothing but a cheap political trick to unseat a sitting president by the left-wing media?
Wow! I guess the playing field really does need to be leveled.
Who would have thought?
Of course Obama the inexperienced incompetent/liar enlisted Clinton the experienced competent/liar to run the scam. They both have always known that the majority of U.S. citizens are either too passive or too stupid to think anything but what the Chavez/MSN media tells them to think.
So, if you don’t like what is happening to the country then stop whining . Send money to your favorite incumbent. Nothing else matters to our “Political Class”. Talk is cheap and politicians are expensive – they can all be purchased for the right price $$$$$$.
To D. Thomson:
I have to oppose your view of the Sociopath In Chief.
This megalomaniac will, I predict, declare himself the islamic messiah, the mahdi, and attempt(succeed in?) the surrender of our sovreignty to an islamic new world order with a name yet to be revealed/conjured.
Thus the Beast and False Prophet of Revelation.
The Devil, the “god of this world”, 2Cor.4.4, is, of course, B. Hussein O’s Master and “god”.
Is Obama a Nutcake? Yes! And “we” have made him the most powerful person in our world! Second thoughts?
I can’t give that much credit to such a bumbling boob like Obama.
i miss clinton times too.. he was senseble and he did not try to be involved in everything as obama does, policy was much more trasparent and even though it sounds funny-accident with monika just confirms it)