When did he do that? He said nothing inappropriate happened.
I already posted a written quote and a video of Axelrod stating such a situation (presumably what Sestak is referring to) as an illegal act. So either Sestak is lying or someone offered him a job in return for not running against Specter.
What a little douchebag that reporter was. This was supposed be about the oil spill, a major ongoing crisis. Why can’t these little bitches ever put a lid on their petty little political non-scandals and talk about something that actually matters. Obama should have said, “Here’s my official response – go fuck yourself. Next question.”
After reading th link, I see the question came from Major Garret. Fox News. I should have known. Fox should not even be given credentials for these things. They’re not a news organization.
We don’t know what Axelrod was referring to as an illegal act. He clearly couldn’t have been talking about just offering somebody a job because that’s not illegal.
By the way, Reagan did it too:
Did Reagan commit a crime, yes or no?
that is just weak. He was specifically asked about the comments Sestak made about being offered a job in exchange for not running.
Since Reagan’s dead I’ll refer you back to Axelrod who made the statement as well asSpecter and a former Justice Department attorney:
**Specter has said in interviews that both the White House and Sestak could be guilty of crimes if the job offer was made in exchange for quitting the race. Someone in the White House potentially could be charged with bribery, Specter said. The senator also said that Sestak could possibly be charged for not reporting a felony.
“I don’t know if I would use the word bribery, but offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor – whether it’s bribery – is against federal law,” Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department attorney, told CNSNews.com.**
Just as a reminder, the non-event you want this to be has become something that the President said the White House will address in the “near future”. It looks like they have to figure out what the definition of the word “is” is before they answer the question.
From your own frakkin’ cite: “When the allegations were made, they were looked into. And there was no evidence of such a thing," Axelrod said. … Axelrod also acknowledged that there were “conversations” involving White House officials and Sestak, but said that those had been “looked at” by White House lawyers and “their conclusion was that it was perfect — the conversations were perfectly appropriate.” IOW nothing there about
How desperately do you want there to be something here? Desperately enough to mischaracterize what little you think you have, obviously.
I’m not the one desperately dismissing what Sestak has claimed happened. All I’ve pointed out is that Sestak said he was offered a job for not running and Axelrod said that such a thing would be illegal and it never happened. The statements are in contradiction to each other. Either Sestak was offered a job for stepping down or he wasn’t.
If it was so frakkin simple then the President should have waived it off at today’s press conference.
We’ve already posted the relevant laws that could apply to the situation. Which law do you believe Axelrod, Specter, and Fox News is alleging that the White House broke?
(Your quote has been Unsmurfed by the Unsmurfist. That blue text is freakin’ annoying.)
Should these people have stuck to the BP issue too?
Presidential press conferences have always been free for all, and I have no problem with that.
Enjoy,
Steven
I’m not making any claim, I’ve simply pointed out what the President’s Senior Advisor and Specter said along with the statement from Hans von Spakovsky who is a former Justice Department Attorney.
What do you think is so difficult about denying this that the President had to sidestep it at today’s press conference? “Sestak was never offered a job by anyone in the White House in exchange for stepping down” is a pretty easy statement to make.
Screw the Republicans and their so-called righteous indignation. Even if this is true it is petty stuff compared to the gross crimes comitted by Bush that cost thousands of lives while the Republican cornies in Congress said nothing.
Congressional Republicans are sleazeballs of the highest order and I when they get on their high horses it makes me want to puke.
Disgusting.
Hans von Spakovsky? Now, there’s a non-partisan source if ever there was one.
What you relentlessly refuse to see is it would have been entirely legal to discuss a job offer with Sestak. It would have been entirely legal to offer him a job that he could not accept and continue to campaign for the job that the WH wanted for Specter, Lord alone knows why.
The only condition under which any such conversation could remotely be stretched to the point of the most technically precise definition of “illegal” is if someone said that the offer was made with the definite point of dissuading Sestak from running for office.
Sestak might have reasonably concluded that such was the operational motivation for such an offer, and I daresay he might well have been right. Hence, he is free to offer his version of the truth, that he was offered a job to keep him from running. He is telling the truth as he sees it.
But unless the unknown WH person made such an offer explicitly referring to Sestak stepping down from his candidacy, you got nothin’!
The unnamed WH operative would have to have acted with dumbass aforethought, to go out of his way to leave fingerprints. And even so, all that would have to happen then is for said WH operative to fall on his sword, say he wasn’t authorized to make such an illegal offer and mispoke. Otherwise, he say, she say.
Mind if we call you “Stretch”?
Suuuuuuure you aren’t making any claims. You just cherry-pick press statements from those who say the White House (or Sestak) did something wrong.
However, everyone sees through your non-argument like it was rice paper. You aren’t quoting people who say that no law was broken.
It is pathetic that you take the time to post a point of view that you cannot even defend against the most elementary questions.
that’s an entertaining sentiment except that it was a DEMOCRAT who made the statement about the **DEMOCRAT **administration.
I’m not the one who ducked the question at the press conference today. Stretch is something politicians do to the truth when they can’t just say it outright.
It’s pathetic that a President who promised transparency can’t answer a simple question.
It has not been established what Axelrod was referring to. If he thinks it’s illegal to offer somebody a job, he’s wrong.
Since Reagan’s dead I’ll refer you back to Axelrod who made the statement as well asSpecter and a former Justice Department attorney:
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This is just evasive.
Not running for office is not a “political favor.” That’s not waht that term refers to. Specter is full of shit and butthurt because he’s the one who got primaried.
It’s nothing, and will continue to be nothing forever more. Nothing illegal has been alleged.
Cite?
:rolleyes:
I cannot understand why someone who would post in Great Debates can’t answer a question, either.