Breaking news: Bud Fox is reporting that Barack Obama offered Joe Sestak a job in order to get out of the Senate primary race
Breaking news: Bud Fox is reporting that Barack Obama offered Joe Sestak a job in order to get out of the Senate primary race
More on this developing story when it becomes available.
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All you liberal idiots are nucking futs. The Messisah, Obuma, commits a crime and should be impeached, but of course, instead of facing the facts here, somehow you'll blame Bush and think it's ok. I seriously hate the moronic though process of you people. It does not surprise me in the least bit that this country is the way it is. LOOK IN THE MIRROR LIBERALS.— Mr Norristown 6- Blago and his defense team have to be loving this.— TomM
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First things first, impeachable offense?? Are you friggin' kidding me?? By the "letter of the law" a misdemeanor was committed if Sestak's comments are true. I honestly think that the administration should come clean and say exactly what happened because it really isn't that big a deal. I'm sure in some backdoor Washington wink, wink, nudge, nudge way this happens in every election - and I am willing to bet it is even worse at the local level. MSL is right (wow, I never thought I'd type that sober, maybe I'm drunk) there needs to be a law change that addresses this issue. I'm not sure what that would be and regardless the only way it will come to light is if politicians dime out their own party. The only reason IMHO this even came to light was that Sestak was trying to portray himself as "the outsider" and now his comment has come back to bite him in the @$$.— bird11- My interpretation of this is that we conservatives are looking for every possible piece of dirt we can throw at Obama to see what sticks. Very similar to what was done to Bush. We (liberals and conservatives) have figured out that we can damage an administration beyond repair by attacking everything possible continuously and just generating enough negative noise to drown out the administration's message.— IggleFan68
- Typical politics, so all you Obama haters get off your hypocritical high horse because this has been going on in all political parties since the wheel was invented.— borncynic
- "so all you Obama haters get off your hypocritical high horse" Good point, no one should criticize him even though he promised the most open and transparent admininstration.— RG
Usaul BS.. if a conservative does it we have blog after blog dredging and redredging it, until it rots on the bone. But a democrat does anything illegal its nothing to see here folks or Bush did it first, this is becoming pathetic.— PAEnglish- "Birdie, maybe you need to read the law more carefully. An offer doesn't have to be directly made." MSL, I have to admit I wasn't intently following the '82 Senatoral race in California - I was more involved in defending my bong, shot, n beer crown from all challngers - but the fact that Hayakawa didn't run and was never given a position in the Reagan administration seems to make the argument moot. I also have no context for the Rollins quote. If it was a response to a direct question about Hayakawa based on Hayakawa's statements that he wasn't sure he would run for re-election than it seems harmless. I don't think anybody would have a problem if Obama was asked about Sestak and he said "I don't know his plans but if he doesn't run for re-election I'd like him in my administration" (OK I'm sure somebody would have a problem, but not me). Sestak is the one who has made this offer sound sleazy and he needs to be more detailed in his account because until someone does this won't go away.— bird11
- the "this is small potatoes/not illegal/what happens in every election/only a misdemeanor at most" arguments ring hollow. This could be a big deal if anything close to what Sestak alleges happeneded, did happen. While we don't know the details, we at least deserve to know, don't we? Can't we at least agree to that?— Bud Fox
- I don't really care whether he was offered a job or not. It may not be pretty, and it may not even by legal, but it's part of politics and I don't really believe it harms the process. It bothers me a lot more when it is used, as it was by the Clinton Administration, to buy an actual vote, like Marjorie Margolies' vote for a tax increase. That said, either Sestak or the president is lying through his teeth, and that does matter to me.— Fascinated
- Sestak was probably offered the job. He just didn't know the quid pro quo was illegal, novice that he was. The administration knew what the were doing, they just overestimated Sestak's political acumen.— abnrgr
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- ab - best summary so far. I would have loved to have been in the room when Obama and Rahm first heard Sestak's comments.— Mirror
- The complete lack of coverage and concern by these newspapers and Philly.com concerning the oil spew in the Gulf.....is PATHETIC. There's not a story out there that matches that one, not even close.— andrew69
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