The List: Obama's Seventieth Week in Office

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Obama's Seventieth Week in Office

The List" for 5/27/2010

May 27, 2010: Obama holds first press conference since July 22, 2009

Rep. Joe Sestak said that his brother has spoken with White House officials about the congressman's allegation that he was offered an Obama administration job if he would stay out of a Democratic Senate primary.

An e-mail from Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-Calif.) campaign suggested Wednesday that the controversy over Rep. Joe Sestak's (D-Pa.) alleged administration job offer could be President Barack Obama's Watergate scandal.

Obama said Thursday that the White House is preparing to issue a formal explanation regarding the allegation that it offered Rep. Joe Sestak a job to drop out of the Democratic primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter. 

Obama insisted Thursday that critics of the federal government’s response to the oil spill in the gulf “don’t know the facts.”

Obama and Emanuel: members of same gay bath house club in Chicago?  Obama began frequenting Man’s Country in the mid-1990s, during the time he transitioned from a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School to his election as an Illinois State Senator in 1996. Man’s Country appears to be a “one stop shopping” center for gay men. The club’s website advertises steam rooms, “fantasy rooms,” bed rooms, male strippers, adult movies, and lockers. However, Man’s Country was not the only location for Obama’s predatory gay sex activities. The Chicago gay community is aware that Obama often made contacts with younger men at his famous “pick-up basketball” games. It was at these “pick up” matches where Obama first met Emanuel and a young Democratic campaign worker and senior bank vice president named Alexi Giannoulias.

Walpin-gate reopens--Fired inspector general files a new court petition

Video: Sestak on original W.H. job offer claim - I was being honest

Obama: "Nothing Improper" in Alleged Sestak Job Offer

 For the second time this month, NASA's chief faced tough talk on Capitol Hill from lawmakers - as well as from Apollo moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan, plus longtime aerospace executive Tom Young. Both astronauts told members of Congress that returning humans to the moon was not only desirable, but necessary for future exploration - even though NASA says it's no longer a priority.

The 1,200 National Guard who are headed to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona won't be on the front lines but will be helping out in vital support roles, President Obama said Thursday

Obama redefines national security strategy. In a broad redefinition of U.S. strategic priorities, Obama has said that the United States must revitalize its own economic, moral and innovative strength if it is to continue to lead the world. Just as it did following World War II, the United States today must also shape a new international order and system of global institutions that reflect a 21st century reality in which "America's greatness is not assured," Obama says in a 52-page "National Security Strategy" released Thursday morning.

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to Texas authorities to be on the lookout for terrorists trying to sneak in through the Mexico border. The DHS warning follows an indictment of a Somali man accused of running a smuggling ring bringing in hundreds of Somalis all the way from South America up through Mexico

A leaked partial document produced by the Bureau of Land Management and obtained by Fox News suggests the Obama administration is considering a plan to lock up 13 million acres of land -- and the Department of Interior is refusing to answer questions

IRS Launches First Wave Of Small Business Attacks

The L.A. Times sings a new tune: Joe Sestak and the phantom -- or was it? -- job offer

The White House will continue a ban on new deepwater oil-and-gas drilling permits for six months and will also delay drilling in shallower Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast, administration officials said

Obama or his aides won't meet with Viet Nam vets group "Rolling Thunder"

Brennan Names Al-Qaeda and Affiliates as the Enemy, Silent on Hezbollah, Others

Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam'.  The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies. During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of "political, economic and social forces," but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in "religious terms."

"The Plug and Play Administration": Obama's self indulgent presidency:  Obama hosts conitnuous entertainment during crisis or goes out for personal play time.

Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate on Thursday killed a move by presidential rival John McCain to send an additional 6,000 National Guard troops to the U.S-Mexico border

Obama open to Puerto Rican statehood

Chiefs of Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marines Oppose DADT Repeal

The List" for 5/26/2010

Justice Department poised to challenge Arizona immigration law (Holder to challenge rule of law)

Obama eyes fresh stimulus as the M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.

On September 27, 2009 the Denver Post reported that the Obama administration offered Senate candidate Romanoff a position if he canceled plans to run for the Democratic nomination against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet.

Five years into the recently passed health care reform law Tennessee could have nearly a half million more residents on Medicaid, according to a report released Wednesday. And the state could be paying an extra $1.5 billion for those services over five years,

Axelrod Says No Proof Sestak Received Illegal Job Offer

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called White House reporters into the West Wing Friday and criticized them for asking too many BP questions.

Construction workers at the Solyndra Plant in Fremont will be spending the day at home Wednesday without pay as President Obama visits the company to praise its work on solar panels

The level of U.S. debt has reached a point at which economic growth traditionally begins to slow, a bipartisan fiscal commission making recommendations to the White House and Congress was told Wednesday

Rahm Emanuel invites Netanyahu to visit Obama.  Will allow an photo-op this time

Obama's new national security strategy will make clear the United States is not at war with Islam.  John Brennan, Obama's leading counterterrorism adviser, said: "We have never been and will never be at war with Islam."

New information obtained by a member of Congress makes it appear the Obama administration has spent $10 million potentially illegally promoting a pro-abortion constitution in Kenya.

Arizona Gets Border Soldiers; None for Texas Perry's request goes ignored for more than a year

 The Republicans' letter requesting appointment of special prosecutor in Sestak claim

Exclusive: Republicans Ask AG Holder to Appoint Special Prosecutor...In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder today, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee "urge the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Congressman Joe Sestak's claim that a White House official offered him a job to induce him to exit the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Senator Arlen Specter."

As Gulf oil spill worsens, Obama flies to San Fran to party with Getty Oil tycoons, fund raise for Boxer

VIDEO: Carville Tees Off on White House Again

Radical Royalty - Obama's Federal Reserve Pick - Sarah Bloom Raskin

The List" for 5/25/2010

The Obama temperment exposed

The Huffington Post, Obama, and the Obama campaign paid Huffington Post $ 55354 in 2008

Obama White House probe of Obama White House finds no Obama White House impropriety on Sestak

Obama Administration Backs Vatican In Pedophile Case

Kagan’s “Judicial Hero,” Aharon Barak

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak pledged Monday to "absolutely" comply with investigators if his claims of a politically motivated White House job offer become the focus of a federal probe.

AUDIO: Reporter Reveals: Gibbs Privately Scolded Press for Asking Too Many BP Questions

Congressman: White House Job Offer to Sestak May Be an 'Impeachable' Offense

Justice Department declines to appoint independent counsel for Sestak case

Obama also clashes with Republican Senator Bob Corker at Obama/Republican private meeting.  Corker is said to tell Obama, ""I told him I thought there was a degree of audacity in him even showing up today after what happened with financial regulation," Corker said after the meeting. "I asked him how he was able to reconcile that duplicity, coming in today to see us."

VIDEO: Obama Uses Same Joke As Bush At West Point Commencement

President Obama clashes with McCain in Republican luncheon

Obama redistribution: Private pay shrinks to historic lows as gov't payouts rise

The Obama administration on Monday asked a federal judge in Virginia to dismiss the state's lawsuit alleging Congress overstepped its constitutional bounds with the new health care reform law

VIDEO: Once Again, Joe Sestak Repeatedly Dodges Questions on Job Offer Bribe

Two census workers divulge Obama controlled Census Dept. plays games with labor statistics.  Jobs numbers unknown and inflated

Accuracy in Academia has identified four consecutive years during which Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan worked with the law school’s Lambda group to oppose military recruiting on campus. Between 2003 and 2007, Dean Kagan not only used her position as Dean to encourage the academic community to protest military recruitment efforts, but was at rallies herself and appears to have coordinated her policy announcements with HLS Lambda, according to student news accounts at that time.

Obama skipping Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. 'He'll be on vacation in Chicago'

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)..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.

Dr. Donald Berwick, nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that runs Medicare, published an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), advising leaders of Britain’s socialized health care system: “Please don’t put your faith in market forces.”

The White House and congressional Democratic leaders reached an agreement Monday night on a so-called “compromise” that could force a vote within days on a bill to end the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy on homosexuality

The List" for 5/24/2010

Kagan's writings suggest her view on judge's role

Nine former employees of a U.S. Department of Education contractor pleaded "not guilty" today to charges of gaining unauthorized computer access to Barack Obama's student loan records. The nine are charged with accessing the information at various times between July 2007 and March 2009, both before and after Obama was elected president, from the Coralville, Iowa, offices of Vangent Inc., a consulting firm that serves the federal government and higher education institutions.

Barack and Michelle Obama host the first-ever White House reception marking Jewish Heritage Month.

Obama's last full-scale session with the press was on July 22, 2009.  Press gets the cold shoulder

Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago's gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city.

The Obama administration is warning the health insurance industry that it will block mergers that threaten to stifle competition.

IDF Prepares for Potential Attack from US-Trained PA Military- The Kfir brigade, created December 2005 to deal with unrest in Israel’s Judea and Samaria regions, trained extensively in urban warfare and simulated a scenario in which IDF soldiers were pitted against the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s new American-trained military.

Biden: Maybe the EU capital is the center of the free world

Senate Takes Up 'Emergency' War Bill Despite Obama Pledge to End Practice

VIDEO: White House senior adviser David Axelrod says "it has been looked into" and the White House has come to the conclusion nothing inappropriate happened.

The White House is talking with gay rights activists, lawmakers and Pentagon officials about a push to hasten the repeal of a ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military. The group was meeting Monday at the White House to discuss a faster pace to end the Clinton-era ban on openly gay sevice members.

Obama's Nominee to Run Medicare: 'The Decision is Not Whether or Not We Will Ration Care--The Decision is Whether We Will Ration Care With Our Eyes Open'

Obama to get briefed on oil spill… and then host party at White House. In the morning, Obama will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. Later, the president will attend a reception for the Federal Judge Association at the White House.

Syria: Obama has failed in peace efforts and lost influence in Mideast -Assad's comments come as Obama set to meet with Lebanon PM to raise concerns about alleged Syria-Hezbollah Scud transfer.

Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner (N.Y.) called on the White House on Monday to detail conversations it allegedly had with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) to try to convince him to drop his Senate bid.

About one-third of employers subject to major requirements of Obamacare may face tax penalties because they offer health insurance that could be considered unaffordable to some employees, a new study says

The List" for 5/23/2010

Obama tells Americans to sacrifice, then throws lavish party for Mexico's Calderon

Shore Bank's shady Obama administration connections

Is the U.S. Selective Service System now blocking access to President Barack Obama's online registration records? Members of the public searching the federal database for the commander in chief's registration are suddenly finding new difficulty, possibly due to the startling revelation of Obama's alleged use of a Connecticut-based Social Security Number.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and his family dined on seafood at an Eilat restaurant and left the bill for the Israeli Tourism Ministry, according to reports in Israeli media.

John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, met with Lebanese leaders during a recent visit.

"Hezbollah is a very interesting organization," Brennan told a Washington conference

Rep. Joe Sestak, winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, is refusing to provide more information on what job he was offered by a White House official to drop of that race, although he confirmed again that the incident occurred

Commanders have ordered a U.S. military unit in Afghanistan to patrol with unloaded weapons, according to a source in Afghanistan.

Obama Advisor: Warm Words for Saudi Arabia, Hizbullah- John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security, called Jerusalem “Al-Quds,” praised Saudi Arabian religious tolerance, and is encouraging of Hizbullah. Speaking to an apparently Muslim audience at New York University in February, at a forum co-hosted by the White House and the Islamic Center at New York University." Brennan first told a story in Arabic, evoking laughter and concluding with, “Don’t tell the folks who don’t speak Arabic what I said.” He then said that his favorite city in the Middle East is “Al Quds, Jerusalem.”

Claiming that there are too many files to sort through, Clinton Library officials won’t provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with crucial information on Elena Kagan’s work in the administration in time for her confirmation hearings.

VIDEO: Cong. Darrel Issa's "So Who is Wrong" on the Sestak bribery scandal

Gibbs on Sestak: 'Nothing inappropriate'

White House spokeman deflects Sestak bribery question 13 times in a row

VIDEO: Gibbs deflects Sestak bribery question

Obama Gives a Bipartisan Commission Six Months to Revise Drilling Rules

Carville on Obama’s Handling of BP Oil Spill: “Lackadaisical” and “Naive”

Obama’s economy: More moms take phone sex jobs

As the oil arrives on the Louisiana shores, Obama goes golfing

The U.S. Justice Department has dropped a probe of American International Group Inc executives involving the credit default swaps that sent the insurer to the brink of bankruptcy and forced a huge taxpayer bailout, lawyers for the executives said on Saturday.

Three top Obama administration officials are returning to the Gulf Coast to monitor the massive oil spill

The List" for 5/22/2010

GOP wins House seat in Obama's home district in Hawaii

Obama has decided to pre-announce to the world once-secret American ballistic missile tests and satellite launches.

Republicans were forced to "back down" from blocking Wall Street reform, according to a fundraising letter sent by the president. In the e-mail to his supporters, President Barack Obama wrote that pressure on lawmakers forced Republicans to "back down" from blocking the legislation

Obama on Saturday blamed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill on "a breakdown of responsibility" at energy giant BP

VIDEO: Obama uses teleprompters to speak to cadets at West Point

Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review

Obama unveiled a commission Saturday to probe the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the growing environmental catastrophe blackened Louisiana's fragile wetlands and beaches

VIDEO: Reporter to Gibbs: Did the president say Limbaugh can “play with himself?”

Derivitives sour Wall Street on Obama- Wall Street executives say language in the Senate financial reform bill dealing with derivatives is like a horror movie slasher — repeatedly left for dead, only to rise again and again. The move to force banks to spin off their derivatives desks could by some estimates slice 20 percent off Wall Street profits

VIDEO: Obama Calls For New "International Order"

VIDEO: from Obama's Commencement Speech at West Point today, where he used humor to remind everyone his "power is absolute" over the military

VIDEO: "They Lead No Religion": Obama Defends Islam, Muslim Fanatics At Commencement

US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner tried to reassure China, ahead of his talks in Beijing, that the United States will get its deficit in order

Obama's mother, Stanley A. Dunham, worked for Tim Geithner's Father Peter Geithner at the Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is partnered with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Peter F. Geithner, Treasury Secretary Geithner's father, worked for the Ford Foundation.

Obama outlined a new national security strategy rooted in diplomatic engagement and international alliances on Saturday as he repudiated his predecessor’s emphasis on unilateral American power and the right to wage preemptive war.

Elena Kagan, a Supreme Court nominee without judicial experience, has suggested in writings and speeches over a quarter-century that when judges make decisions, they must take account of their values and experience and consider politics and policy, rather than act as robotic umpires.

As it sought support for international sanctions on Iran, the Obama administration gave Moscow two concessions: lifting American sanctions against the Russian military complex and agreeing not to ban the sale of Russian anti-aircraft batteries to Tehran.

Fatah does not rule out the possibility of resuming an ''armed struggle'' against Israel if the US-sponsored proximity talks fail

The List" for 5/21/2010

It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers. Orly Taitz, an attorney who has filed numerous suits against Obama regarding his eligibility to serve as president, appears to be the first to discover this. In her suit, representing a number of military officers who are refusing to serve under an ineligible commander in chief, she hired private investigator Neil Sankey to conduct research on Obama’s prior addresses and Social Society numbers. Using Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Choice Point and other public records, Sankey found around 25 Social Security numbers connected with Obama’s name

Did President-elect Barack Hussein Obama commit a federal crime in September of this year? Or did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Selective Service registration commit the crime for him?
It’s either one or the other, as indicated by the release of Barack Obama’s official Selective Service registration for the draft. A document released through a Freedom of Information Act request,of Obama’s draft registration shows many signs of fraud,- putting the lie to Obama’s claim that he registered for the draft in June 1979, before it was required by law. if the signature on the document is in fact his, our next Commander-in-Chief may have committed a federal crime in 2008

A leading House Republican is threatening to file an ethics complaint against Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) if he doesn’t reveal who in the White House offered him a job to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary.

The Obama administration said Friday it has lifted sanctions against four Russian groups that had been accused of helping Syrian and Iranian weapons programs

VIDEO: Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wear bracelets protesting the Arizona immigration law during Mexican President Felipe Calderon's address to Congress.

Obama's Fiscal Commission: Obama and the leadership in Congress have delegated enormous, unaccountable authority to 18 unrepresentative, inordinately wealthy individuals. The 18 individuals are meeting regularly, in secret, behind closed doors, until safely beyond this year’s mid-term election. If they reach agreement, their proposal will be voted on in December by a lame duck Congress, without the benefit of open hearings and deliberations in the pertinent committees and without the opportunity for open debate and amendment on the floors of the House and Senate. Despite the speed and lack of accountability, the legislation will affect, in substantial ways, every man, woman, and child in this nation.

After Chief of Protocol of the United States Capricia Penevic Marshall slips and falls on her seat, Obama orders the press not to print or take her picture.

The White House is standing behind Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who has acknowledged that he misspoke about his military service.Blumenthal, the attorney general of his state, found himself on the defensive when The New York Times reported Monday that he had repeatedly claimed that he had served in Vietnam. Blumenthal was in the Marine Reserves during the Vietnam War, but did not serve in Vietnam.

Robert Gates aims to kill F-35 jet engine: Gates has warned Congress he will urge President Barack Obama to veto any defense bill that provides funding for the engine — made by General Electric and Rolls-Royce for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

A top Department of Homeland Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities. John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comment during a meeting on Wednesday with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune

US envoy George Mitchell left Israel on Thursday afternoon, ending the second round of proximity talks, with each side claiming their contacts with the American mediator focused on something completely different.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent President Barack Obama in January a secret “wake-up” call warning of lack of strategy to deal with an Iranian nuclear threat, The New York Times reported Saturday. The memo warned President Obama that his administration had no long-term strategy to deal with the growing inevitability that the Islamic Republic will be able to produce a nuclear weapon.

The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean warship ''cannot go unanswered'' and the response by the international community must not be ''business as usual.'' The evidence that North Korea fired a torpedo and sank the ship is ''overwhelming and condemning,'' Clinton said at a press briefing in Tokyo today (Snip) The U.S. wants China to help shape a response, an American official told reporters later in the day in Shanghai.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it has “no records” of any communication either “to or from” its chairman that mentions Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham or Michael Savage. The FCC made the declaration in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by CNSNews.com that sought all its records reflecting communications from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski mentioning the popular radio hosts. "No records of correspondence responsive to your request were located as a result of a search of records of the Chairman's office," said the FCC in a May 6 letter to CNSNews.com. Despite this assertion, a letter about “hate speech in the media” specifically citing “radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh” was in fact sent to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski by a coalition of liberal groups last fall

Stealth IRS changes mean millions of new tax forms: The massive expansion of requirements for businesses to file 1099 tax forms that was hidden in the 2,409-page health reform bill result- A blizzard of new tax forms that the Internal Revenue Service will begin rolling out next year.

U.S. intelligence has strong reason to believe that the Pakistani Taliban is actively plotting to hit interests in the U.S. and American targets overseas, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday

The Shady ShoreBank Bailout: The federal government and a coalition of big banking interests are poised to bail out a crony Chicago bank with longtime ties to the Obama administration

America's Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, was AWOL when it came to the vote to allow Libya onto the UN Human Rights Council;  was AWOL in a Sec Council Resolution that condemned Israel (the first time such as Security Council resolution was not vetoed by America). She promised to reform the UN Human Rights Council when controversy arose from pro-Israel supporters over our joining the Council. But that promised reform has not happened either.

Obama called for first-ever mileage and emissions standards for big rig and work trucks Friday, seeking to limit pollution from the large vehicles that contribute a big share of it.

Obama has decided to pre-announce to the world once-secret American ballistic missile tests and satellite launches.

The Judiciary Committee asks for letters, memos, e-mails and more, before hearings on the Supreme Court nominee begin June 28. A library official says meeting the deadline would be 'very difficult.' The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday set June 28 as the start date for hearings on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, and asked the Clinton presidential library to turn over voluminous documents related to Kagan's time as a top presidential assistant in the 1990s.

Elena Kagan's reliance on foreign law for statutory interpretation presents another concern for pro-life advocates, says Americans United for Life in a new memo about President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee.

VIDEO: Yesterday, CNN’s Rick Sanchez asked Sestak whether the White House had offered him a gig as Secretary of the Navy in order to buy him out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary. He dissembled, although he did confirm that the White House offered him a job.

Palestinian negotiators have surprised Washington with a bold opening offer to White House peace envoy George Mitchell that includes concessions on territory beyond those offered in past Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, according to officials briefed on the current negotiations.

[Nachum]

The 70th week of the most ethical administration in their own minds.

Dealing out "hope" and "change" like bullets.

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[GregNH]

I applaud your effort here. That took some work, thank you. And of course this is not a tribute to how feel about the guy....

[highlander_UW]

Bump...

And Fox just had a report (on TV) that it was Bill clinton who talked with Sestak about a possible job at the behest of the White House.

[Nachum]

Hmmm, Bill Clinton? Sounds like plausible deniability for the White House.

[highlander_UW]

Hmmm, Bill Clinton? Sounds like plausible deniability for the White House.

That might be the WH strategy, but I think it's going to backfire. Clinton has no authority to offer such a position...and if he did it at the "behest" of the WH...then who in the WH was the person doing the behesting? It just shoves the issue a slightly different direction...but it doesn't resolve the problem for Obama.

[highlander_UW]

Hmmm, Bill Clinton? Sounds like plausible deniability for the White House.

Fox.com headline says it was Rahm Emmanuel who asked Clinton to talk to Sestak. If Rahm was involved it seems very likely Obama was as well. This very well could be Obama's Watergate...although it's obvious the media will not pursue it the same given that it's a democrat who appears to have committed the crime.

[Vaduz]

Wink wink say no more say no more know what I mean.