If the President was not involved, dont you think when he found out the offer was made without asking him first he would have fired anyone who offfered whitehouse appointments for politcal concessions without his knowledge or permission..
AND he would have done that as soon as he heard about it MONTHS ago..

would do or did something like this without Obama's knowledge??

Do you ever wonder why Emauel is never interviewed? Has commentary aired?

And it is not just because he cannot put two sentences together without using four letter words.

Must be a good reason to keep the WH pit bull out of the lime light.

btk

From the Chicago Tribune....

"The Obama administration insists that, as political scandals go, this is pretty skimpy stuff. Contrary to rumors that Sestak, a retired admiral, was offered the job of secretary of the Navy, he was wooed with an unpaid position that, it turns out, he could not have taken without resigning his House seat.

Or, as the White House statement put it, he was provided "an opportunity for additional service to the public." Nothing illegal there, the White House counsel concluded.

That may very well be true, though some congressional Republicans are calling for a special prosecutor to investigate. Rod Blagojevich must be wondering how he can introduce the Sestak affair into his upcoming trial on charges of, um, trying to barter a U.S. Senate seat.

If this episode looks something short of brazenly corrupt and illegal, it doesn't leave the president looking like a shining agent of change, either. In the first place, it involved the kind of grubby deal-making that has to be kept out of sight because it would offend the public. In the second, the goal was to deny voters a reasonable option at the polls.

The president further tarnished his knightly armor by deciding to stonewall the whole issue. Sestak said back in February that the administration had offered him a job to withdraw, but the White House stubbornly refused to address the issue for months — on the apparent premise that what the citizens don't know can't hurt them.

Candidate Obama promised to transcend the pettiness of our politics. But this gambit makes him look small … and like an old hand at the Chicago way.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...,6197294.story

Less than a year and half in office and the beat goes on....Sestak still going for sure....plus.,,,

"WASHINGTON – The Obama administration dangled the possibility of a government job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, officials said Wednesday, just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a job offer in the Pennsylvania Senate race."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100602/...olorado_senate

A year and one half....this White House is by far the single most politically motivated WH I have ever seen. I honestly never imagined this would happen....I now can see this WH imploding in the next year or so !