http://www.realclearpolitics.com/mediawatch/Sestak Memorandum.pdf
this white house is so stupid
its own lawyers write, "
options for executive branch service were raised"
"efforts were made
in june and july of 2009 to determine whether congressman sestak would be interested in service on a presidential or other senior executive branch
advisory board"
"which would avoid a divisive senate primary"
exactly
june AND july?
clinton made TWO phone calls?
it doesn't add up, it's so disproportional
to include a FORMER PRESIDENT in a job offer, er, discussion of options, for a postion with no power, a glorified internship?
why would an ADMIRAL give up a shot at the SENATE to serve on an ADVISORY BOARD?
it's LOL! material
"the advisory positions discussed with congressman sestak, while important to the administration, would have been
uncompensated," stresses counsel
again...
wapo reports that president clinton discussed OPTIONS for UNPAID work of ADVISORY nature to AVOID A DIVISIVE PRIMARY "on behalf of chief of staff rahm"
washingtonpost.com
"and in colorado former state house speaker andrew romanoff has said that [deputy chief of staff jim] messina offered him an administration job if he dropped out of his primary campaign against michael bennet," the former supt of denver's public school system (an education liberal) who was leapfrogged ahead of establishment western dems in the rocky mountain state when president pie-in-the-face pulled up ken salazar to screw up interior
underlying all the legalese, always, is sestak's candid and clear assertion, many times repeated, that HE WAS OFFERED A JOB TO QUIT THE PRIMARY
the legalities will go nowhere in washington, what with hasan's honey, holder, handling the doj, what with roadblock reid running senate
but it exposes as preposterous the president's pretty pictures of hope and any kind of change honest folks can believe in
this little incident is BUSINESS AS USUAL at its ugliest worst
not good
especially in THIS particular climate
but more, obtuse obama, as always, comes off as a fool, his admin's handling of this so clumsily incompetent, a political naif
it's a BLAGO move
the prez is a phony, he's arrogant, and he's not very bright
sorry