… and we’re missing the real play somewhere else.

Mew

I do believe this is common in Washington.

What is not this common is this level of ineptitude. On top of the Gulf oil leak, this shows a White House that is so lost, it doesn’t know which way is up.

They have themselves created this crisis. They will now try to blame Republicans for this…but really should look in the mirror first.

http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=11123

……but the government media will never let a Democrat president fall by scandal. No matter how bad they’ll just keep the volume turned down until it passes over. Look at Clinton.

This is a mini-scandal by Washington standards. I’m a big boy, and understand that this stuff goes on all the time, though perhaps more subtly. However, jobs-for-favors is clearly against the law.

1) It plays to the public’s perception of Chicago patronage politics. Upcoming Blago trial will reinforce that perception.

2) Man-bites-Dog story. What! Squeaky clean Obama is really a dirty Chicago pol… but we were told otherwise! I thought he was born of the Virgin Mary, in a field, and never corrupted. Dissonance catches people’s attention more than same ol’ same ol’.

3) Sestak & Romanoff have no reason to back down. They are campaiging as outsiders, and there’s no better way to reinforce that status than to be cast as “the uncorruptible outsider who refused to be bribed by the powers that be.”

4) I just bought a big bag of popcorn, and I want to enjoy it at length. Pass the salt please.

This is the closest I have seen in comparison to that administration. What is so amazing is how they even considered getting away with something like this when the American people are in such struggle. Here in Michigan the situation with jobs is so bad, and to have these people blatantly play politics at the mercy of all of us is just beyond me.

I strongly suspect that, come November, the House will switch parties. Who wants to bet that at this time next year we see a House Select Committee on Electoral Abuse set up to determine “what the President knew, and when did he know it.” By that time there should be some carryover from the November election to add to the jobs-for-primary abuses.

I just pray that what happened to Clinton after his impeachment doesn’t happen to Obama. Clinton got so much sympathy from his supporters, they re-elected him.. Three and a half words did the trick: “Vast Right-wing Conspiracy.” Now, the Left throws around one word, and they have been whipping it into action since pre-election: “Racist.”
-Lori
whttp://Consrvativemom.blogspot.com

That is why it was made illegal.

Can you imagine, if elections could be controlled by those in power by simply buying off their opponents in this way? It should be illegal. It is dasterdly.

White House press briefings, this will never have legs. When it gets to the point that 50% or more of the questions refer to this “scandal”, then we might have something. Don’t hold your breath, though, with this press corps.

I don’t know if Rahm did this on purpose or was lucky, but it was a brilliant move to have Clinton make the offer. First, if the story ever became public, Bill Clinton would not hesitate to lie about what actually happened at the meeting to make it sound as innocuous as possible. Second, if it ever came to down to prosecuting anyone, the White House could spin it as Republicans continuing their persecution of Bill Clinton.

When Republicans take back the House, it’s going to be fun watching heads roll. This is a much bigger deal than the Valerie Plame nonsense, which was arguably the biggest “scandal” in the Bush administration.

The only thing that’s keeping Obama’s rating from being in the 30′s is the American people still think he’s a decent guy. If he appears corrupt, in addition to being a radical, the bottom will fall out on his Presidency.

You now have a pattern of how the White House works. In addition, this really taints two crucial Senate races, Colorado and Pennsylvania. I can easily see this scandal, particularly in Colorado, being the difference between winning and losing.

I would think that it would be the whole Chicago Climate Exchange story, with sprinklings of Obama, Goldman Sachs, Joyce Foundation, SEIU and Gore!

http://www.examiner.com/x-14143-Orange-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m4d27-Scandal-Obama-Gore-Goldman-Joyce-Foundation-CCX-partners-to-fleece-USA

But this administration is so corrupt – where to start?!

Is what it boils down to, and this is the greatest threat that exists to our representation, or rights and our freedom.
Free and fair elections are the holy grail to us.
We cannot afford to tolerate this.
This is not a small crime, it is the ultimate crime. Circumventing the will of the people by way of electioneering is as bad as it gets.
When we lose our choice of representation, we will be ruled rather than represented.
We HAVE to pursue this. We can’t let this one go.

He voted three times to allow premature infants to die unattended in hospitals.

He chose a hateful, anti-American lunatic for his “spiritual advisor” and remained in the man’s congregation for 20 years.

He socialized with a 1960s terrorist.

He appointed a communist, 9-11 truther to his administration.

None of that stuck, but this will?

I’m skeptical.

Don’t get me wrong. I think both situations reek of Chicago politics.

Bill Clinton has lunch with Obama one day, and then the next they issue a memo detailing his supposedly innocuous involvement with Sestak? Just coincidence, right?

Sestak would have considered dropping out of race for an uncompensated advisory position? Please

And now we have Andrew Romanoff in Colorado producing e-mails of job offers he got from White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina to drop out of his race with Michael Bennet. whoops

That being said, this is all going to get a collective shrug from the general electorate. How hard is it going to be for the DNC to produce dozens of examples of political deals cut by Republicans? They don’t even have to involve the President or be remotely close to what Team Obama has done. Most people won’t make the distinction. They will just assume this sort of thing is done in Washington constantly and the only difference here is that Republicans are trying to make trouble for Obama.

Yes, it shows yet again that the “most transparent administration in history” is anything but. It also shows that the guy who was going to be a different breed of politician, is just another politician, only more so. So let Hannity and others hit him with that for a bit, but let it go. It’s not going to stick. And there are plenty of thing with which to hit him (health care, oil slick response, persecution of Arizona immigration law, etc.)

I don’t know why everybody is so startled by these acts of corruption from this President and his Administration, this is what they voted for – “Change”…The Nixon years are looking better and better!
Spiff

Regardless of anyone’s position on the birth certificate issue, facts remain that the administration has spent a boatload of cash fighting the “birthers.” Not to mention the Obama’s home purchase deal with Chicago crook Tony Rezko, or a host of other issues that have from the beginning called into question the integrity of Mr. HopeNChange.

Note to the Leftists: NONE of this is a surprise to Conservatives.

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Because they reason with their eyes and not their intellect, I have no tolerance for two types of people: Those who would not vote for a President because of the color of his skin, and those who did.

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