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Joe Sestak Speaks: Nothing To See Here

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On the heels of the White House Counsel’s memo detailing the administration’s contact (via Bill Clinton) with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), Sestak spoke out today, going into detail for the first time. Short version: There’s nothing to see here.

Sestak corroborated the contents of the White House memo, and fended off any and all attempts to deepen the controversy. He also got to throw in big chunks of his Senate stump speech for good measure.

So, this should be the last we hear about this.

Here’s the video of Sestak’s full press conference this afternoon:


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  • taxed

    Does the Obama Admin, Clinton, and Sestak really think the American people are that stupid?!?

  • sarainitaly

    Is the media really this stupid?

    Sestak has made the claim repeatedly, for four months, that the WH offered him a high level job to drop out of the race. The WH spends four months avoiding the issue. Yesterday Clinton has lunch with Obama, the WH calls Sestaks brother, they coordinate their stories and all of a sudden we get a press release. So now we are supposed to believe that Sestak, after four months of saying he was offered a high ranking job, really meant that Clinton, in their 40 second phone call, tried to mention an offer for a non-paid advisory board position. And the media is falling for this?

    Puh-lease.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    So many conspiracies, so little time.

  • MediaWhore

    sarainitaly: “Is the media really this stupid?”

    I’ll be glad to answer your question sara: No, they’re not really this stupid. It’s you that’s stupid.

    You’re welcome.

  • TylerDurden

    fot you, whore!

  • nowhearthis

    @taxed, @sarainitaly,

    The rumor was that the high-level position proposed to Sestak was Secretary of the Navy. The legal document issued from the White House counsel today dispels that rumor:

    “The President announced his intent to nominate Ray Mabus to be Secretary of the Navy on March 26, 2009, over a month before Senator Specter announced that he was becoming a member of the Democratic Party in late April. Mabus was confirmed in May.”

    It would have been stupid for all involved to have issued a legal finding that was not an accounting of the facts. Case closed.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    The ” legal document ” was the White house investigating themselves . Bob” The Fixer ” Bauer strikes again . Greg Craig would not have tried to peddle this nonsense . Sorry to see Sestak corrupted like this . Thought he was a good man .

  • Ninja

    All this fuss for a man that was relieved of duty. This guy is a disgrace to the United States Navy, and the fact that he was offered a Sec position is disgusting!

  • AmericanCowboy

    I smell a cover up

  • moesharvey

    He was offered a job without salary. I’ve been offered many of them, and would love to have taken them up, but for the starvation element. Get effing real America, this is business as usual. Go and clean up the mess in your bedroom, er gulf, and then come and try to behave like grown-ups.
    http://www.wellnessstarts.com/ultra-cleanse-pro-reviews.html

  • jrcmi

    “Sestak has made the claim repeatedly, for four months, that the WH offered him a high level job to drop out of the race. ”

    Sestak said he was offered a job. Period. The corporate/conservative media tried to “swiftboat” him by repeatedly putting words in his mouth about the job offer and repeating the anonymous claim that he was relieved of duty – rather than simply reassigned . . . unless the Pentagon is lying, too.

    Despite all evidence to the contrary – and desperate to hang SOMETHING on Obama – the “neo-conmen” insist on pursuing a “crime” that didn’t occur. Republi-cons should be embarrassed and ashamed – though I doubt they’re either.

    It’s a matter of public record that Mabus was nominated for NavySec prior to the offer to Sestak. Obama wouldn’t turn around and offer the job to someone else . . . but don’t let logic, facts and common sense get in the way of pointless outrage.

    “this is business as usual.” – moesharvey

    You should know, SPAM troll.

  • sarainitaly

    Check my links here:

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-bush-attorney-general-mukasey-throws-cold-water-on-sestak-hype/#comment-65155

    He is the one who said yes, he was offered a high ranking federal job. A non-paying job, sitting on an advisory board is not a job – and it is not a position he is even eligible to accept, because of his position in the House. No one is “swiftboating” him. He made the claims himself. He obviously did not know the federal implications he started when he made those claims. He was either breaking the law by not reporting the illegal actions of the White House or that he was implicating the White House in an impeachable offense.

    You should be embarrassed that a Democratic Senatorial Candidate has implicated the WH in this illegal activity, and the WH has confirmed it occurred, although they are changing it to a non-paying job, and that they enlisted a former POTUS to do the dirty work. And they spent months creating a cover up story.

    Why would someone drop out of a race for a non-paying advisory board position that he would be ineligible for as a sitting member of Congress? And why would they ask President Clinton to do the asking, if this was no big deal?

    use your heads.

  • TfT

    Sestak isn’t the only one who was offered a job…Romanoff was also offered a job; the media doesn’t seem to be interested in investigating this pattern of behavior because it would put the WH in a negative light — and the liberal media can’t have that. Nope, they are advocates for this President.

    Someone is lying here….is it Sestak or Obama/Clinton? Given his history, I’d guess Clinton; he is good at playing the cover-up game.

  • felixw

    Clearly some prominent Democrat is lying here. Or perhaps all of them.

  • Sunnyr

    Put his butt under oath and see what he says. This whole thing stinks to high heavens of a Chicago Style Quid Pro Quo. It ain’t over yet.

    Investigate, Impeach and Flush!

  • sarainitaly

    jrcmi says:
    May 29, 2010 at 5:58 am

    I hope you bothered to check the links I provided, proving your argument false, that Sestak did indeed say he had been offered a high level federal job.

    You should be embarrassed and angry that you are being fed a bunch of hooey, and that you ate it up.

  • jrcmi

    I didn’t “eat up” anything. What I happened to see did not include any details from Sestak. A clip I saw from FakesNews seemed to put words in his mouth.

    Sestak answered truthfully, and I’m proud of him for it. He’s being bashed by many on the right for telling the truth rather than lying.

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