“Did you plug the hole in your story yet, Daddy?”
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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Wouldn’t you know Bill Clinton would somehow end up in another impeachment case? LOL
;-)
So conspiracy and bribes, pretty much status quo for Clinton
Let’s wait for the DNA test.
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?
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.
Nonsense...It sure took a few days to trot out this lie.
thx th
or recycle the orange pumpkin one first zero wore...
ALL LIARS!
It is, and that’s why it endears them to the uninformed American people.
Actually, the American people as a whlole really believe in “their Bill.”
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