He isn't saying it didn't happen; he's saying there's no evidence?
Posted on 05/25/2010 7:37:30 AM PDT by FTJM
The White House attempted to push back against allegations that Barack Obama or his staff attempted to bribe Joe Sestak into withdrawing from the Democratic Senate primary by offering him a job, but they may be creating bigger headaches with their defense. Axelrod tells CNN’s John King that there is “no evidence” that the bribe attempt ever happened, even while he acknowledges that it would have been “a serious breach of the law.” In order to believe that there is “no evidence,” though, one has to discount the repeated direct testimony of Sestak himself (via The Daily Caller):
Senior adviser to the president David Axelrod said Monday evening that there is “no evidence” that White House officials tried to keep a Democratic congressman from entering the Pennsylvania Senate race by offering him a high-ranking government job.
“When the allegations were made, they were looked into. And there was no evidence of such a thing,” Axelrod said on CNN’s “John King USA.”
Axelrod acknowledged that if White House officials dangled a job in front of Rep. Joe Sestak’s face to keep him away from challenging incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, that would “constitute a serious breach of the law.”
Axelrod also acknowledged that there were “conversations” involving White House officials and Sestak, but said that those had been “looked at” by White House lawyers and “their conclusion was that it was perfect — the conversations were perfectly appropriate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Does this mean that we will see a chubby attention seeker exclaim on MTP that he hopes to see Rahm Emmanuel perp walking in an orange jumpsuit?
Communist defense lawyers have decreed everything to be A-OK. Yip Yip Yahoo! Obama is innocent again. The OJ Press is happy now.
Sestak... under the very crowded bus!
He isn't saying it didn't happen; he's saying there's no evidence?
There is no evidence that Axelrod has ever told the truth.....
Translation: We're from Chicago. We know how to handle this sort of thing.
For what reason would Sestak lie about this?
No reason.
So, there is no reason to believe Sestak is lying - back atcha, Axelrod.
or maybe “no controlling legal authority” LOL
They’re looking awfully bare these days, are they not?
Remember, stick to your list when the decorating starts.
Don’t go ninjin’ nobody don’t need ninja’d.
Great campaign video for Toomey: “Senior White House officials call democratic candiate for US Senate a liar”. “Even Obama doesn’t trust this guy”.
Exactly. They made sure there was no evidence and that they were covered.
LOL. We are truly living in a Bizzaro world. The WH investigates allegations against the WH and finds that its converstations were "perfectly appropriate." Case closed.
SO.... this begs the question, Is Sestek
a) stupid for not simply saying he simply misspoke...that he was offered a job but no one said it was in exchange for not running, or
b) he is a moral man and won’t use the above lie, or
c) there is a record somewhere and he knows it could be found and he would then be found out to be a liar?
I agree that this precludes a "kill shot." IMO, however, it does provide an opportunity for conservatives to inflict some pain.
Sure about that David? Have you been waking in a cold sweat for a few nights? Better destroy those hard drives. Delete is not sufficient. Remember, “for the want of a nail the shoe was lost...”.
Translation: "If this thing doesn't go away we will need some time to find an appropriate stool pigeon..."
SCAN is a very useful tool. I studied it a number of years back and it has really helped hone my BS meter.
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