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White House Asked Bill Clinton to Urge Sestak to Drop Out of Senate Race

Crunch said:
Doesn't matter who he is or what degrees he has, it needs to be looked into by a special prosecutor and the facts, not spin be ascertained. Only then can this be looked at as only an ethics problem. I and a lot of other citizens look at this as more bribery by an administration that finds no problem using our tax dollars to buy outcomes that they couldn't obtain by legal means.
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If this is not looked into by a special prosecutor there will always be the doubt (black mark) hanging over the Obama administration.

He should want this decided once and for all.

Up 'till now, there have only been opinions on both sides and nothing legally binding.

Obama should ask Clinton what it is like to answer questions about something that happened during his administration for the rest of his life.
 
danarhea said:
And I appreciate your balanced and thought out approach to posting on this.
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LINK to Sestak's repeated admissions, Gibb's repeated stone walling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJLejs_0ZR0&feature=player_embedded

Balance.

When you have Sestak admitting in interview after interview that he was offered a high level job to get out of the race, that he answered the question honestly, and you have a law clearly crafted against such activity, you are to conclude those making the offer were within the law?

How is that?

Why didn't Gibbs get the info the press wanted after saying he would?
He is the press secretary, in contact with Obi and crew daily.
Why, if everything was on the up-and-up did the White House fail to answer questions from the press on this matter for months?

Quoting... "Did someone offer you something to get out of the race?" ... "Yes".

18 USC 600.

Since when are politicians above the law?

Honestly.

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zimmer said:
LINK to Sestak's repeated admissions, Gibb's repeated stone walling: YouTube - So Who Is Wrong?

Balance.

When you have Sestak admitting in interview after interview that he was offered a high level job to get out of the race, that he answered the question honestly, and you have a law clearly crafted against such activity, you are to conclude those making the offer were within the law?

How is that?

Why didn't Gibbs get the info the press wanted after saying he would?
He is the press secretary, in contact with Obi and crew daily.
Why, if everything was on the up-and-up did the White House fail to answer questions from the press on this matter for months?

Quoting... "Did someone offer you something to get out of the race?" ... "Yes".

18 USC 600.

Since when are politicians above the law?

Honestly.

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This is why it needs to be investigated.

Gibbs delayed the answer because it takes time to come up with a story that people might beleive.

If the White House really thought there was no crime, they would have answered right away.

Behavior is usually an indication of something.

For example, the police look at a surviving spouse more closely if he does not behave how they think a grieving husband should if his wife dies.

Here we can see the White House delaying their answer and that looks guilty. Again the White House staff are from Chicago which puts their story in even more doubt.
 
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Mason66 said:
This is why it needs to be investigated.

Gibbs delayed the answer because it takes time to come up with a story that people might beleive.

If the White House really thought there was no crime, they would have answered right away.

Behavior is usually an indication of something.

For example, the police look at a surviving spouse more closely if he does not behave how they think a grieving husband should if his wife dies.

Here we can see the White House delaying their answer and that looks guilty. Again the White House staff are from Chicago which puts their story in even more doubt.
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Isn't it bizarro?
WE HAVE REPEATED ADMISSIONS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION, ON DIFFERENT NETWORKS, THERE WAS AN OFFER OF A JOB TO GET OUT OF THE RACE...

...REPEATED ADMISSIONS. Not a slip of the tongue. Not a clandestine recording. Not his lover spilling the beans. Not a pissed staffer coming clean. Not CBS with forged documents.

No... we have the words from the man himself, the man receiving the offer of a job to get out of the race so the field is clear for Specter.

And he was proud, stating he was just being "honest".
HONEST.

Then you put his statements up against the law, specifically 18 USC 600.

Add 1+1 and you get?
For Libs it is zero.

I thought both Pelosi and Obama said they would run a clean, transparent ship?

Bullship I say.

Throw the book at them. They have gone all out to deceive the public... and that with the facts blaring out of the TV sets and computer screens.

If they try to make us believe there was nothing wrong with this, when it is a clear violation of law... what the ell else are these people doing?

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hazlnut said:
And how do these astute friends feel about the previous administrations doing this?
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Can you show for us the previous administration asking a Senate candidate in a primary to drop out in consideration of a job offer?


j-mac
 
j-mac said:
can you show for us the previous administration asking a senate candidate in a primary to drop out in consideration of a job offer?


J-mac
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bump for answer.
 
texmaster said:
Are you that oblivious to what a tantrum actually means?
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A tantrum is a child whining that they haven't gotten their own way. Just like the Repukes whining how nobody is listening to them. As IF they have any ideas besides "Just Say NO!". Just like the Repukes whining about investigating Obama for a non-crime. They whine about anything that might whip up tea bager types.

Like I said sonny, there is nothing to see. Carry on.

LOL Still fuming we got Slick Willy huh.
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Perhaps you forget, or don't want to acknowledge that the Senate exonerated him. Yep, a 4 year mult-million dollar investigation that started looking into a real estate deal then wandered all over the place until Clinton was finally ambushed about a non related matter, basically a personal family matter. Good responsible use of taxpayer funds there Repukes. :roll:
 
j-mac said:
Can you show for us the previous administration asking a Senate candidate in a primary to drop out in consideration of a job offer?


j-mac
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bump for answer.
 
j-mac said:
Can you show for us the previous administration asking a Senate candidate in a primary to drop out in consideration of a job offer?


j-mac
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Bump...... people want to know Hazlnut.
 
Crunch said:
Bump...... people want to know Hazlnut.
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Throwing out any statement in the fury of a debate is one thing, answering it to back up a claim is another. Hazlnut rarely does this, back up his claims that is.


j-mac
 
j-mac said:
Throwing out any statement in the fury of a debate is one thing, answering it to back up a claim is another. Hazlnut rarely does this, back up his claims that is.


j-mac
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Seems like that is a problem with a large number of posters on this forum..... I won't mention the usual party affiliation. :mrgreen:
 
j-mac said:
Can you show for us the previous administration asking a Senate candidate in a primary to drop out in consideration of a job offer?


j-mac
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... bump for an answer.

Hazlnut's has picked up some skills from Team Obi.
S-T-O-N-E-W-A-L-L

The latest and greatest series of brush-offs by Obama/Gibbs...
Gibbs: 'I'd refer you to the memo' | POLITICO 44
Pressed on how a widely discussed scenario — where Sestak serving on the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board could have been possible while Sestak continued to serve in the House, which is forbidden by the board’s rules — Gibbs said simply, “I’d refer you to the memo.”
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Obi/Gibbs had an entire long weekend to prepare, and the kids came to class without doing their homework.

Does anyone really have to wonder why Hazlnut and Obi/Gibbs cannot answer simple questions?

YES WE CAN
YES WE CAN
YES WE CAN...
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ROTFLMFAO
NO THEY CAN'T...
GIVE A STRAIGHT ANSWER...
Wonder why...LOL
 
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...bump for answer from Hazlnut
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the presidential putz is campaigning (perpetually)

today he's in pittsburg

congressman jason altmire, congressman tim murphy, senator bob casey, congressman mike doyle and gubernatorial candidate dan onorato "DECLINED WHITE HOUSE INVIATATIONS TO ATTEND OBAMA'S SPEECH"

ie, they STIFFED him

ouch!

how embarrassing

they KNOW

they don't want to end up like benedict arlen

admiral sestak doesn't want to end up like benedict arlen, martha coakley, creigh deeds, john corzine...

obama's approval in keystone country is down to 42%

what do you think all that means?

party on, progressives

represent, be proud
 
15 pages of non-story.

Way to go hyper-partisan far-righties...:roll::roll::roll:
 
Hey Hazlnut,

You bring this baby to a close... just answer the question.
Just Do It.
Or simply say you cannot back it up.
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oh, it's a story, alright

just ask david gregory, bob schieffer, jake tapper, george stephanopoulos, mike allen, candy crowley...

LOL!
 
Larry Kane when asked for a response after his Sestek interview, said they did not offer him a job.
Now they said they offered a job.

Sestak said it was high level first, now it's a job he could never have taken.

HOLDER YOU F-ING COWARD, IT'S LONG TIME FOR YOU TO INVESTIGATE.

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THEIR stupidity insults OUR intelligence

sestak---i was offered a high ranking job by the white house to quit

bauer---in june and july clinton discussed options for his future with the admiral, including suggestions about an unpaid advisory position on a board the congressman can't serve on, in order to avoid a divisive primary

gibbs---umm...

grownups get it, pros perceive

the press corps---that doesn't make sense, why do you act so guilty

casey, altmire, murphy, onorato, doyle (to obama)---i don't know you

the most incompetent politician at the national level america has ever produced is barack hussein obama
 
uh oh, it's ap

AP Sources: Admin talked jobs with Romanoff - Yahoo! News

colorado house speaker andrew romanoff was offered a job HIMSELF as inducement to get HIM to quit HIS challenge vs sitting unelected senator michael bennett, former supt of denver public schools, education liberal, obamite, too san francisco for mainstream western dems, leapfrogged ahead of party lifers in the rocky mountain state when ken salazar was promoted to screw up interior and the gulf

everyone knows what happened, the jobs were offered, which happens all the time, except you can't say the precise words, else it's a crime, so you have to be just a little bit smart

apparently that's asking too much from this team

why did sestak BRAG about the white house's attempts to OFF him?

why did he WIN doing so?

read the TEA leaves

romanoff, underfunded, opposed by leadership, LEADS the effete mr bennett by TWENTY

this aint goin away, playa's

have fun with it
 
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