Remember 2008 when Candidate Obama told us he’d run the most ethical White House ever? Remember last week when President Obama held a press conference to tell us that he had the Gulf Coast oil spill under control? Turns out that both were equally true. Which is to say neither is true in any sense of the word.
BP has officially announced that the Top Kill operation touted as a success by the president, has failed. This is bad news for everyone, regardless of political affiliation. So why would the president offer such a premature and rosy evaluation? In order to deflect attention from the impeachable offense that is the Joe Sestak bribery scandal, of course.
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Joe Sestak, the political upstart who unseated octogenarian turncoat Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary, has openly stated that the Obama administration tried to bribe him into dropping out of the race. The White House’s official defense – I’m not making this up – is that since the position they offered him is unpaid it doesn’t technically constitute bribery. Such technical word parsing at the expense of sincerity hasn’t been seen since former President Bill Clinton.
So it should come as no surprise to anyone that the representative tapped by the Obama Administration to present their non-bribe to Sestak was none other than… former President Bill Clinton. In summary, the most ethical administration in the history of the planet has turned to one of the only two impeached presidents in US history to offer a sleazy underhanded bribe to a political outsider in order to reward a career politician who tergiversated the Republican party to help the Democrats win a filibuster-proof majority.
Kind of makes me wonder what they offered Specter to defect and who they had to screw over to reward him. And who will they have to stick it to in order to bribe Sestak into keeping quiet?
