Like a Judas, has Bill Clinton has betrayed Obama three times? On camera, Clinton is heard to say, "I didn't... I didn't... I did not," thrice denying he tried to get Joe Sestak out of the race to clear the way for Obama's pick - Arlen Specter for Senator of Pennyslvania.
Bill might try to parse "didn't" the way he parsed "what is is"; but will it be credible?
Sequence of Sestak Scandal:
- Sestak claimed to have received an offer of an administration job in exchange for his withdrawal.
- Sestaks's claims prompted demands for a probe because of potential violations of the law.
- The White House dodged and evaded questions about whether the "offer" came from the White House.
- Rumors were the position offered was Secretary of Navy
- Joe Sestak would not reveal who made the offer nor what position.
- Under much pressure, the White House and Sestak released story that Bill Clinton had sailed a trial balloon Sestak's way and it was misinterpreted
- Bill Clinton made no statement to either confirm or deny his involvement
Following is a video clip and transcription of Clinton:
Reporter: Mr. President, why did you campaign for Sestak if you tried to get him out of the race?
Reporter: Why did you campaign for Sestak if you were in line with getting him out of the race?
Bill Clinton: I wasn't. I didn't try to get him out of the race.
Reporter: For Arlen Specter?
Clinton: I didn't try to get him out of the race.
Reporter: You did not?
Bill Clinton. I did not. I wasn't even accused of that.
Reporter: Did you meet with Mr. Sestak?
Following is a transcript and video of the breaking of this story:
Reporter: This though. is the first pairing of the two names since the reported nudge from Clinton to Sestak to bow out of the race and take a position in the Obama administration - all of this would make way for Arlen Specter's victory. Clinton denied it to Eye Witness News - saying he never tried to get Sestak out of the race and has never been accused of it.
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Awk Obama! Sestak bribery scandal is 'awkward' for Democrats ...
Holy awk, Obama. This is all about Election 2010; and it is getting sticky for Democrats. Suspicions of bribery usually cause a backlash at the voter's booths.There is just no way to make this bribery scandal go away unless Joe Sestak throws himself under the Obama bus (it's getting crowded under there) by saying he was flat-out lying or all muddled and confused -- or
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LOL....
Gosh these people are so corrupt they can't even keep their lies straight.
Hahahahaha
Dev, I bet none of the Palin bashers will be over here bashing Slick Willy and Obama....
"Like a Judas??" It was Peter, not Judas, that denied Christ three times.
Hi Dev!
Geee, what a conundrum.....which one do you think is lying,
Clinton or Obama??
Ahahahahahahaha! D'oh!!
I think she said "like a Judas, has he BETRAYED Obama three times"
So, in that regard she is correct. Judas is the one who betrayed Christ....
Perhaps there is a little mixing of Peter and Judas's stories to make an impact? I don't know.
She said betrayed, not denied. I have a feeling Devonia knows her bible.
Deni,
Both! LOL....
Amy, hi, yep I bet the 13 pieces of silver are probably wheels turning for a Hillary run for the presidency.
A little Judas, a little Peter -- and Obama is on the hot seat again.
And then Clinton can crawfish out of it sayin' that he didn't ask Sestak not to run, evah!, he merely threw out a balloon to see if Sestak would consider a position. You know Clinton when he gets to parsin' - he can just parse all over the place.
But still, temporarily, Obama is in the hot seat. Maybe Clinton wants something from Obama? Another lil' talk coming up?
Hi Deni, you betcha! This is where two liars meet - Obama and Clinton.
The SecNav story never made sense. Ray Mabus had already been nominated before whatever happened happened. And if Mabus has somehow been rejected, Juan Garcia was the second choice.
Clinton also is correct in the strictest sense: He never offered any job nor attempted to talk Sestak out of running, according to all the evidence to date. Clinton ASKED Sestak what positions he might be interested in if he decided not to run.
Classic Slick Willie legalisms; love him or hate him, he's one of the best at political maneuvering just inside the legal extremes.
Bottom line: No crime - and likely no impact on the election, since this won't change minds on either side.
Hi Amy!
You are correct, I believe BETRAYED is the operative word here, and I thought she did a great job of mixing the two ideals of the betrayal and denial in this story, very clever! I was not confused......
"I did not inhale".
"I did not have sex with that woman".
"I did not, at the bequest of obama, attempt to bribe Joe Sestak."
lol.... Deni I wasn't either! lol
Ms T.... classic! "what is IS?" hahahahahaha
"bequest" - I do not think that word means what you think it means.
bearsrepeating...
I am sure there is always something one or the other could do for each other! lol...
Inigo Montoya says:
"bequest" - I do not think that word means what you think it means.
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bequest: 1 : the act of bequeathing
2 : something bequeathed : legacy(www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bequest)
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Reallie Inigo Montoya?
I thought my pun was quite appropriate.
Then perhaps you should have followed the link to the definition of the verb.
Cannot have a "bequest" unless it comes from the estate of someone deceased.
"Cannot have a "bequest" unless it comes from the estate of someone deceased."
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The verb usage is irrelevant. My application was of the noun (in my pun).
Using your verb (in a pun)would ACCURATELY describe the president's credibility though ie DECEASED).
NONE of your diversionary tactics change the FACT that LYING is second nature to both clinton and uhbama.
Using your verb (in a pun) would ACCURATELY describe the president's credibility though (ie DECEASED).
Nor does it divert from your obvious lack of erudition, nor your feeble attempts to deny your illiterate usage by claiming its a pun (apparently another word with which you have comprehension issues).
it's not its ("It" is a possessive pronoun meaning, more or less, of it or belonging to it) libtard, LOL!
it's not its ("ItS" is a possessive pronoun meaning, more or less, of it or belonging to it) libtard, LOL!
pun: the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.
(Hint: behest) LOL!!!
Now back to the liars and thieves (clinton and uhbama). LOL!
Mandy Patinkin is looooooooking for you. LOL!!
I suggested he start in Doylestown (PA)
knock knock. LOL!!
Peace Valley Park
Watch out for the "Rangers!"
BWA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Ms T-Rius says:
"I did not inhale".
"I did not have sex with that woman".
"I did not, at the bequest of obama, attempt to bribe Joe Sestak."
bearsrepeating,
U r going to cause inigo montoya to spasm. LOL!
I LOVE the movie "The Princess Bride" LOL
"I am Inigo Montoya, you kill my Father, prepare to die"
hahahaha!
Amy, u here?
Yes I am around bear, I am looking through Dev's articles lol...
what is up?
Testing.
Hi E'body, I'm testing as well. The site is a long way from finished. If they are going to thread the comments from first to last, then they are going to have to provide a way for us to skip to the latest comments.
Anyway, I've turned in a ticket on it. I think there are going to be lots of changes yet to the USER tools.
Testing, testing, read all about it LOL.....
D. ,
Does one now have to be a member to comment?
For instance! I am DEV not Marquis Hunt! Wierd.............hahahahaha Marquis Hunt? I kinda like it, Dev
HI Deni, Ms T, and Amy... what a hoot!
No, Ms.T.
I don't think we will ever have to be a member to comment. I do think that when we sign up, that we will have the option of receiving an email when someone responds to us. And our own avatar and own page. Sorta like Shine... where we can have our own little landing place.
Dev or Marquis Hunt?
Ok, Just noticed Marquis Hunt was a hyper link, so it appears if we do sign up, our id's will be hyperlinked and go to our own landing page.
Of course, it's all whacky right now. As in, I'm not Marquis Hunt. Wonder if he is me? Poor guy he prolly is aghast if so! lol.
Ok, this is still Dev - testing what Anonymous does. I didn't add a name to the YOUR NAME Field.
Great, Anonymous is "Anonymous". That's cool.
Any one got a really looooooooooong post? I wonder how limited the content field is? And hyperlinks? I wonder if we can add hyperlinks?
Dev
http://tiny.cc/
DUMPED! "unshredded records included pathology reports with patients’ names, addresses, and results of breast, bone, and skin cancer tests, as well as the results of lab work following miscarriages.
By law, medical records and documents containing personal identifying information must be disposed of in a way that protects privacy, and leaving them at a dump is probably illegal, privacy lawyers and hospital officials said. Violators face steep fines."' http://tiny.cc/b9h9o
Great! That worked. Test concluded.... Dev
The hyperlink is a go. On the "old" site, the comments were restricted to 1000 characters, yes?
Netanyahu, the anti-Obama
By George F. Will
Thursday, August 12, 2010
JERUSALEM
Two photographs adorn the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike -- in life experiences, temperaments and political philosophies -- than Netanyahu, the former commando and fierce nationalist, and Barack Obama, the former professor and post-nationalist.
One photograph is of Theodor Herzl, born 150 years ago. Dismayed by the eruption of anti-Semitism in France during the Dreyfus Affair at the end of the 19th century, Herzl became Zionism's founding father. Long before the Holocaust, he concluded that Jews could find safety only in a national homeland.
The other photograph is of Winston Churchill, who considered himself "one of the authors" of Britain's embrace of Zionism. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 stated: "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Beginning in 1923, Britain would govern Palestine under a League of Nations mandate.
Netanyahu, his focus firmly on Iran, honors Churchill because he did not flinch from facts about gathering storms. Obama returned to the British Embassy in Washington the bust of Churchill that was in the Oval Office when he got there.
Obama's 2009 speech in Cairo, courting the Arab world, may have had measurable benefits, although the metric proving this remains mysterious. The speech -- made during a trip when Obama visited Cairo and Riyadh but not here -- certainly subtracted from his standing in Israel. In it, he acknowledged Israel as, in part, a response to Jewish suffering in the Holocaust. Then, with what many Israelis considered a deeply offensive exercise of moral equivalence, he said: "On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people -- Muslims and Christians -- have suffered in pursuit of a homeland."
"On the other hand"? "I," says Moshe Yaalon, "was shocked by the Cairo speech," which he thinks proved that "this White House is very different." Yaalon, former head of military intelligence and chief of the general staff, currently strategic affairs minister, tartly asks, "If Palestinians are victims, who are the victimizers?"
The Cairo speech came 10 months after Obama's Berlin speech, in which he declared himself a "citizen of the world." That was an oxymoronic boast, given that citizenship connotes allegiance to a particular polity, its laws and political processes. But the boast resonated in Europe.
The European Union was born from the flight of Europe's elites from what terrifies them -- Europeans. The first Thirty Years' War ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia, which ratified the system of nation-states. The second Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1945, convinced European elites that the continent's nearly fatal disease was nationalism, the cure for which must be the steady attenuation of nationalities. Hence the high value placed on "pooling" sovereignty, never mind the cost in diminished self-government.
Israel, with its deep sense of nationhood, is beyond unintelligible to such Europeans; it is a stench in their nostrils. Transnational progressivism is, as much as welfare state social democracy, an element of European politics that American progressives will emulate as much as American politics will permit. It is perverse that the European Union, a semi-fictional political entity, serves -- with the United States, the reliably anti-Israel United Nations and Russia -- as part of the "quartet" that supposedly will broker peace in our time between Israel and the Palestinians.
Arguably the most left-wing administration in American history is trying to knead and soften the most right-wing coalition in Israel's history. The former shows no understanding of the latter, which thinks it understands the former all too well.
>>The prime minister honors Churchill, who spoke of "the confirmed unteachability of mankind." Nevertheless, a display case in Netanyahu's office could teach the Obama administration something about this leader. It contains a small signet stone that was part of a ring found near the Western Wall. It is about 2,800 years old -- 200 years younger than Jerusalem's role as the Jewish people's capital. The ring was the seal of a Jewish official, whose name is inscribed on it: Netanyahu.
No one is less a transnational progressive, less a post-nationalist, than Binyamin Netanyahu, whose first name is that of a son of Jacob, who lived perhaps 4,000 years ago. Netanyahu, whom no one ever called cuddly, once said to a U.S. diplomat 10 words that should warn U.S. policymakers who hope to make Netanyahu malleable: "You live in Chevy Chase. Don't play with our future." <<
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Kudos to Netanyahu, a man who truly loves his country, and his heritage.
If only we Americans could be so lucky to have a "leader" such as this.
"Shine" sux!
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