No, he didn’t. We just discussed this. No job offer was made.
Yes it was. Rollins said so on the record. Hayawaka said so on the record. I linked the story saying so way upthread.
It sounds like you’re trying to parse some kind of distinction between saying “we WILL offer you a job not to run,” and “we ARE offering you a job not to run.” Just to clear up your confusion on the issue, there is no difference whatsoever.
Also, it’s not illegal either way. Also, Sestak was never offered a job anyway, and most significantly of all, not running for office is not an official act. The President can pay a guy a million dollars cash to retire and it’s not illegal.
Bush’s ethics lawyer on the issue:
It is flat out laughable and transparently partisan and desperate to try to spin this as a crime. It never even would have occurred to me to try to paint this as an impeachable offense when Bush and Reagan did it, and it wasn’t because I wasn’t open to finding angles for attack.
This is over, man. There’s a Goddamn volcano of oil fucking up the Gulf of Mexico right now. Let’s worry about that instead of how we can get Barack Obama on some contrived technicality.
We just went over this. Hayakawa was never approached and no offer was made. This is the opposite of what Sestak claimed.
I have no doubt it’s done all the time but when Sestak made a public admission it’s not something you get to ignore because “everybody does it”. It’s along the lines of someone hiring a babysitter and not paying social taxes. It’s a truly stupid thing to admit.
Just because I point out it is a violation of law doesn’t mean I assign a lot of weight to it. Unless the President was stupid enough to leave a paper trail it’s never going to get past “he said/she said”. Obviously they had their ducks in a row with Sestak because he clammed up until the letter was released.
A job offer was made to Hayakawa, and it was refused.
No job offer was made to Sestak.
No, you ignore it because it’s not illegal.
Hayakawa specifically stated that he was never approached. Kinda hard to offer someone a job without talking to him.
Sestak, on the other hand, said a job had been offered to him.
Such charming naiveté! They do it all the time!
A brief mention on the nightly news suggests the Sen Blutarsky is being considered for the top job in the Dept of Pointless Symbolism. Depending on the level of urgency, it is either a rumor floating about or attributed to a highly placed source.
Sen Blutarsky is either a) humbled but honored by such a notion, but stands ready to aid the President in any way he may see fit or b) cannot consider such an honor, due to his sworn commitment to the people back home in Whereverthefuck.
Its done this way so that all parties concerned can conduct negotiations with total denial as the fallback option, if, for instance, college records for Sen Blutarksy involving ladders and sorority windows should suddenly surface, or Sen Throckmorton swears to disembowel himself on the Senate floor if Sen Blutarsky’s name is offered in nomination. Stuff like that.
You don’t already know this stuff? Really?
I do, Sestak doesn’t.
Pretty easy, actually. Ed Rollins managed it no problem.
No he didn’t.
Just wanted to let you know I got the Animal House reference.
:rolleyes: Did. The thread started with it.
**Sestak acknowledged in an interview in February that he was offered a position by an unnamed White House official - a potential violation of federal law - but has not offered any specifics on conversation. Republicans are trying to use the issue against Sestak in the November Senate race.
“It’s interesting. I was asked a question about something that happened months earlier, and I felt that I should answer it honestly, and that’s all I had to say about it.” Sestak said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Anybody else has to decide on what they will say upon their role. That’s their responsibility.”
Yet Sestak confirmed to NBC’s David Gregory that the incident did take place.
“I was offered a job, and I answered that,” Sestak said. “Anything that goes beyond that is for others to talk about.”
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He was not offered a job.
It then becomes interesting to consider why he - along with Arlen Specter - said that he was.
How would Specter know?
Sestak said he was offered a “position.” it turns out it was unpaid, so it wasn’t a “job” even if Sestak sloppily used that word.
Just to be clear, though, it’s not illegal either way, so the distinction is ultimately irrelevant. All Presidents have done it, including St. Ronnie.
Find a different scandal. Maybe Obama will put ketchup on his hotdog or something.
Today, Talking Points Memo
Are we done now?
What part of “Sestak said he was offered a job” are you confused about? The fact that he has recanted it doesn’t mean he didn’t say it nor does it mean it didn’t happen.
The Daily Caller (no doubt a fountain of incisive journalism) ran this story (originally under the headline “Clinton Blows Job Offer”) noting that Sestak was ineligible for the job/position he was said to have been offered.