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It appears we now know the official White House version of the Sestak affair.\u00a0 They are apparently going to claim that Clinton delivered the offer of an unpaid advisory board position:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/plum-line\/2010\/05\/exclusive_white_house_asked_cl_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This is consistent with what the NYT is going to report.\u00a0 It was apparently the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board<\/p>\n

http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/plum-line\/2010\/05\/what_about_the_job_offer.html<\/a><\/p>\n

If this is accurate, then this will have very little impact on the Obama administration, other than some embarrassment.\u00a0 However, it will be devastating to Sestak.\u00a0 It makes him look like an arrogant idiot. (Seems about right!)<\/p>\n

However, the real impact on this situation is that the Obama administration finally was forced to give a straight answer to a question rather than the vague non-specific answers for which they are famous.\u00a0 Ultimately that could be the most damaging long term impact of this story.<\/p>\n

There are also obvious conflicts between what Sestak said and this story.\u00a0 This only describes one incident, involving President Clinton.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if this is the entire story.\u00a0 This seems a little weak to me.\u00a0 The Obama administration definitely wanted Sestak out of the race.\u00a0 They were pretty desperate to keep Specter happy.\u00a0\u00a0 If this was their best effort at getting him out of the Senate race it is easy to see why it failed.\u00a0 This story is probably true, but it may not be the entire story.\u00a0 One thing is sure, there is a lot of scrambling going on.\u00a0 The White House called Sestak\u2019s brother, who is a lawyer, to discuss this with him.\u00a0 It would be very interesting to learn what exactly was discussed.\u00a0 This has the ugly odor of a cover-up.\u00a0 I wonder if the main stream media will notice.\u00a0 Right now, it will be important to learn exactly how Sestak responds.<\/p>\n

This has the classic pattern of a cover-up.\u00a0 Witness A refuses to give his side of the story until he knows exactly what Witness B said.\u00a0 That is the way people act when they are trying to make sure they are both telling the same lie.\u00a0 Perhaps the real question is not what Sestak was offered to drop out, but what he was offered to cover for the White House.\u00a0 My guess is that Obama is about to make some very expensive fund raising trips to Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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