Sounds to me like Sestak insulted every jobless American, struggling to keep food on the table, by claiming (lying) that he was offered a JOB.

JOB has a real and specific meaning to the unemployed.

Some “watergate”, Dick Morris.

Republican outrage at this has been ridiculous from the start. It was so political and coordinated, you would wonder how people like Darryl Issa had anytime to do anything actually worthwhile? Or was this just a way for Republicans to hide that they are on the wrong side of every recent issue (Big Oil, Financial Reform, DADT, Job Growth, and Immigration)?

I’d take the latter.

Any people believe this garbage? Does anyone really think Bubba was called in just to offer an unpaid job to Sestak? Please. I love how the Obama Administration just puts out a story of “their” own investigation and every moron on PA2012 and in the rest of the country just says “yup, that’s it! case closed!” It’s hilarious to watch Democrats put their fingers in their ears and ignore all corruption while America burns. Oh yeah, Dow is down another 100+ points today. Yes we can!

DD=butthead

All of the anti-incumbent stories which always lead with Sestak and this story have really benefitted Sestak with nearly 2 weeks of free publicity. Neil Oxman would have to charge between $3-$5 million to blanket the state for all this publicity. Now we inject another President into the mix and the job story will go on for another week or so. It makes Sestak look like he’s in the major leagues, hanging with two Presidents, and the publicity is all free. No wonder he’s up by 3 on Toomey and Toomey had to prematurely burn commercials post-primary.

Please, keep up the story. More, More, Longer, Longer!

Actually, this scenario is even more innocuous than what I had been thinking (i.e., that there was a misunderstanding between Sestak and the person making the offer).

Although the haters and the Toomey supporters will continue to try to make something out of nothing, what this explantion reveals is all positive for Sestak. First, he had the integrity to refuse the offer, and second, he allowed the former president the dignity of having the White house reveal the details.

I’m glad that the WH acted now to put this phoney issue to rest and eliminate the distraction from the real issues that voters want to hear and which the Rs fear will decide this race.

Sounds like a load of garbage. If the matter was that simple then why didn’t Sestak clear the air when he first brought this to light in February. It all sounds like a cover-up. Dems back the wrong horse for the primary. Every Democrat who voted for Sestak in the primary paved the way for a Toomey victory on the general.

Did folks also know that Sestal is being investigated by the FBI for issues regarding union corruption. I’m sure that story will be making headlines soon.

If this is such a non-story, then why didn’t Obama and his thugs come out months ago, when Sestak first mentioned this, and say Clinton just discussed a non-paying job? Why the suspense? Why did they have to delay and delay, then release an official explanation? Sounds shady to me. And why was Clinton even in PA? According to Megan’s Law, sex offenders like Bill Clinton are supposed to notify everyone in town when they move or travel to another town. Did he do that?

Sestak actually did the White House a favor by not detailing this during the primary, when it would have been devastating to the Specter campaign. I think the White House undertstands that Sestak showed great restraint in how he handled this.

Oh, and Jeff? That Clinton-sex-offender stuff is so ’90s. Gotta work on some fresh smears, buddy.

The only question remaining is for Joe Sestak. Why sir did you lie and mislead the public that you were offered a high level administration job?

That so called unpaid is probably not true, it was a paid job and Clinton and Obama know it.
That’s right Bubba, we got your game, you are really a full fledged conman. Go to Haiti and continue your good work and stay out of politics.

Westie – Read the memo:

“…provide him with an opportunity for additional service to the public in a high-level advisory capacity for which he
was highly qualified.”

Question answered. Next?

This whole thing is a non-story. The vast left wing conspiracy has turned out to be similar to the vast right wing conspiracy. Silly

Bruce
Nah, they are lying, that job was a PAID OFFER
GET REAL

@Bruce…I got YOUR game…everyone is a liar except for the little voices in your head….tighten the tinfoil.

He said he was getting offered a JOB. BS story. This publicity is teriible for sestak. He won’t say who did it. If it was a crime, he could get in trouble too.

sorry—last post was directed to Brett…my apologies Bruce.

Sick – Me? You sure?

Sick – No problem. Cross-posted above, too, so it’ll be double confusing to outsiders.

sick of it all, your mental patient parole is over, get back into your cell.

Brett- What’s with the hateful personal disparagement and stereotyping of persons with mental challanges.
All of this right wing bumper sticker noise depends on the assumption that no one else is right or telling the truth.
The GOP would love to gin this low brow reality show crap up to a frenzie not to get at the “truth” -but ankle bite and harrange anyone who the target as having contray opinions or facts

My thinking is even if Reps still think it was a dirty deal which is what they were going to use on Specter if he did win they should vote for Joe Sestak because he didn’t take it.

@David
But he is not saying who did it.

I have the feeling that this story is just beginning, not coming to an eventless conclusion.

Brian O’Connor
http://www.RedDogRepoort.com

Bruce-
The Clinton stuff is “so 90′s”?? So was Anita Hill.

Sestak actually did the White House a favor by not detailing this during the primary?
Sestak did himself a favor by pretending he was more important than he actually was, and by acting like he turned down a genuine offer and made some honorable sacrifice.
And all it cost was months of embarrassment and distraction for the White House.

Sestak not only spells “team” with an “I” but also with an “f u”.

Sestak could have cleared this thing up in two seconds by saying it wasn’t actually a job. But, in fact, Sestak has for months insisted that he was offered a job.

More lies from a phony. No surprise.

This whole thing stinks. If it was so innocent, Sestak could have mentioned that a long time ago. Instead, he kept up this “no comment” garbage, fueling the flames. Gibbs could have also put an end to it a long time ago, instead of avoiding the question for months. Why did Sestak and the White House have to drag this whole thing out, with an “official explanation” if it was nothing? Seems very bizarre. You’d think both sides would have nipped this “non-story” in the bud immediately.

I guess it depends on what your definition of “job” is. Remember, we’re dealing with Slick Willy here.

Loving you, Joe Sestak! And all these Toomey pop-ups keep on reminding me why. Public Option? Yep. Cap and Trade? Yep. Ban on assault weapons? Yep. Bailout? Yep, but remember it was you, Pat Toomey, who voted as a congressman for deregulation which gave birth to a need for the bailout… This election pits the Wall Street PACman versus the retired 3 star Admiral. Love it.

And I think to myself, “what a wonderful world.”

all that aside, guess who’s going to win the Pa Senate race? It’s not Pat Toomey and that’s what’s driving all this nonsense. When the smoke clears, Toomey will be on the ground with Sestak’s boot on his chest.

Explain to me huw. How is Sestak supposed to win? With all the stuff keystone posted up above your comment. Most of the stuff PAers would be against.
Toomey will win give it time. He served in a district with more democrats than Republicans in it, so he can attract the conservative dems which make up a well sized portion of PA.

BTW Keystone. Wasn’t Sestak fired?

As much as it pains me to say it, I’m going to have to agree with Diano on this one (at least partially).

Rep. Sestak did it to make himself seem more important than he actually was. He made himself an annoyance to the White House, but all is water under the bridge, and they have fixed it. It may be a talking point for Toomey for a while, but I think both the White House and the Sestak campaign will be able to get out from under it fairly quickly.

Yet no one here states or admits the obvious: Sestak told the truth all along and was playing the high road of not ratting on his Commander in Chief and a former president of the United States. They both owe him big time.

And oh, I can’t believe the snarky Diano missed this possible comment: “of course Sestak thought an unpaid position was a “job.” Look what he pays his staff. You know, below minimum wage, blah, blah, blah. And he thinks THEY have jobs.”

rplinpa-
Actually, a friend of mine came up with the “that how he pays is staff” argument first, so I didn’t want to steal his idea.

But, I disagree that Sestak told the truth all along (and he unquestionably misled). Sestak claimed he was offered a high-level job within the administration. He also claimed that the offer came from the administration. And I’m pretty sure (but I don’t have access to the full series of his quote) that Sestak claimed someone from the administration made him the offer (ie the person that spoke to him).

Sestak has made a mountain out of a molehill, and tried to put his face on the mountain like it was Mt Rushmore.

Stiller Fan-
Since Sestak was “blowing smoke” I guess it was a blow job after all.

rplinpa,
You have to be kidding. He told the portion of the truth that would help elevate his stature, that somebody tried to talk him out of the race. This automatically makes him a legitimate threat. I don’t think anybody would question this happens all the time, at every level.

The disconnect is: If the WH/Sestak/Clinton answer is so innocent/convenient; why did it take so long for them to come up with it?

Any reasonable observer of this story knows there are more chapters left.

Anyone find it interesting that Pat Toomey has made far less of a deal out of this than Dan Issa and other conservatives? And Toomey has the most at stake here.

Does Toomey realize that this is not a big deal? Is he taking the high road and letting others do the political dirty work here? Or is he just being too nice?

Remember the Mark Anthony speech in Julius Caesar.
Toomey is using the old trick of false civility and sham nobility and taking advantage of his operatives and the national bumper sticker spewing out of towners tokeep this no-story alive.
Once his right wing(nut) views get re exposed and the tea baggers pals start pushing him to the right , he will crater.
Still- as the bard said, much ado about nothing.

“Hi, I’m Joe Sestak and I told Obama to take a hike. Then I told all those Congressional supporters of Pat Toomey to take a hike. I’m an honest, reliable, independent candidate willing to tell Washington to get lost. My loyalty is to the people of Pa. Vote for Joe. I turned Washington down.”

@ Notsure
lol. You do have a point for Toomey taking the high road, however, you leave out the fact that Sestak is a liberal beyond extreme for PA. I just don’t know how he has been in the navy for 30 years and is that liberal. NO one I met in the Navy was so liberal. Heard he sucked as an admiral too. I like how Sestak is always bring up the “working families” of PA and how he was in the Navy for 30 Years. He is trying to make himself look anti-establishment but is the establishment and constantly votes with Pelosi. Hopefully his military career and his working families arguement for why he should be in senate will not sit. I know my fellow PAers are not stupid.

Toomey will lead give it a few months and into the fall a little after Sestak’s primary bounce evaporates. His voting record reeks.
Reminder: The dem candidate in PA-12 was anti-obama. Sestak has always voted for Obama. Not good with conservative dems,
Bye sestak.

Nice spin bye the way too huw. You forgot to mention he always votes to the favor of the one.

Nov – Here, you forgot your teabag.

What the hell is a PAer????? It’s been Pennsylvanian for 330 years. Stop trampling on our state’s proud history and the English language all at once! I thought that was what the right-wing take-back-America crowd was so upset about in the first place.

Mario Cimino
D – Morton Borough Council

residents of PA are not dumb…They know nothing happened here improper…WH took time to tell what happened bc investigating what happened not shooting off at mouth…Seems repubs are spinning heir wheels to fnd a way to slow down the train…will backfire on them

For those who criticized Sestak as acting more important than he was throughout this matter, isn’t it novel and absolutely shocking to find a political candidiate doing such a thing?

And for those who have difficulty sleeping because he could have put the issue to rest sooner, it may help you to sleep if you count the dollars of free publicity gained by Sestak as a result of this issue.

For those who must feed their obsessions, feel free to continue chewing on this matter. For those who actually give a damn about the good of Pennsylvanians, it’s on to the real issues of this campaign.

OBAMA NEEDS TO GOOD TO JAIL FOR WHAT HE DID ITS A FELONY HE IS NOW GUILT OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDOMEANORE

OBAMA NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL

Lee-
Sestak got that free publicity at the expense of the White House and his own credibility.
Doesn’t sound like much of bargain for Democrats.

And Toomey dedicated how much time to public service or service in the Military? November- were you the sailor with YMCA guys ? If you served, give respect to a fellow vet- if you didn’t think about what we and the county owe them this memorial day.
Toomey and tea bag empty suits are neo cons in drag hoping to fool the country into not remembering what they have done to the country.
Don’t you see the tragic pattern of greed and misuse of power piping still Cheney, Newt etc and his chicken hawk ilk who remourselessly pushed us into two endless wars and crapped the economy causing the unnecessary death and wounding of thousands men and women.
The neo cons with their glib talking points did succeed in one thing – making Halburton so ridiculously powerful and rich that they would think that they can get away from killing 11 oil workers and maybe killing the ecosystem and economy of the gulf coast.

Sestak said over and over that he was offered a JOB. He could have said POSITION but used the word JOB. Even after the election, asked directly if he was offered a JOB he said yes.

Volunteer service is not a JOB.

He was asked if he was offered Secretary of the Navy and wouldn’t answer. A simple NO or “nothing at that level” would have been nice.

If the WH story is true…as Sestak claims it is…then Sestak is a liar.

What it seems though is that the WH story IS true. But there was still another incident in addition…one that was not revealed. In other words multiple offers. After Sestak turned down the unpaid position another and better offer was made.

If Sestak created this entire issue only over an unpaid position then he is nothing more than an egomaniacal liar……Oh.

I think you’re all missing the point. Sestak isn’t anti-establishment. When he talks about this, he means not toeing the Dem Party line as far as elections go.
Doesn’t matter what the job was. What matters is that he didn’t take the job.
If he had taken the job, there would have been no primary, which to me is a much bigger deal. If he didn’t say “No, thanks,” chances are Specter would have remained in office, or maybe not. Maybe people would have voted for Toomey simply because they were so irate that the field was cleared by the Dem establishment on the state and national levels.

How vacuous this silly issue has become that today Hannity, Gigrich and Dick Morris are calling for Tom Corbett to impanel a Grand Jury to investigate the President the former President and Sestack.
Funny- the fox gang wont spend all the air time allowing Cheney and his Haliburton pals explaining how they would fix the BP oil catastrophe. ( maybe the worst crime in 100 years)
Oh yeah, Bush was an “oil man” and these oil dudes are his country club “palin around” donors-where is he? Still in a fly over with ‘brownie”?
saving the gulf coast might pop up on the really matters scale but wouldn’t let them get off the petty self-promoting circus clown hate messages.