The Great Revelation
Yesterday the White House released news about nothing. The release satisfied the shark appetites of the news media who, to be honest, are tired of reporting on the BP disaster which they know nothing about. The shortcomings of people is a different story. So as the sunset on Washington DC, American learned that former President Bill Clinton had offered Congressman Joe Sestak an appointment to a Presidential commission if Sestak would remain in Congress and not run for Arlen Specter’s Senate seat.
The hype around the non-story shows how desperate the media is for some real news. Yet the news they thought might be buried there was trivial in the grand scheme of things. Politics is about trade offs and compromises. That Democrats would have preferred Sestak remain a Congressman and not contest Specter is just as predictable.
The dark part of this story is that only if there had been something really tainted, like Clinton offering large bags of cash to Sestak would the Democratic request broken the smell meter.
The real revelation part of the story is that Joe Sestak will oppose former Congressman Pat Toomey, and Toomey’s first ads have been positive and accurate. Toomey is a conservative and Sestak is a progressive. What a change it will be to have the chance to vote for one of two people who say who they really are.
This entry was posted on May 29, 2010 at 11:40 am and is filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Politics, Republican Party. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.
Tags: Bill Clinton, joe sestak, pat toomey, Senate
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