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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (76718)	5/30/2010 5:51:19 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 149317

>>The Rs are making a big thing about Obama offering Sestak a job if he didn't run for office. I am unclear why that is illegal. Am I out of the loop, or are the Rs making a mt out of a molehill?<< It is all BS, that is totaly normal and every president has done it. In fact it is done in politics all the time. Not even a molehill. It is nothing. Typical rightwing BS.

To: tejek who wrote (76718)	5/30/2010 9:32:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Trying to make a mountain out of a meteor crater. If Obama hadn't done something like that, he would be the first president since the guy before George Washington to avoid it. But then, Obama is the only Hawaiian in the group. Here's a more recent example that Issa could have googled. Reagan adviser reportedly offered CA senator a job with the administration "if he decided not to seek re-election." A November 25, 1981, Associated Press article reported that President Reagan's political adviser Ed Rollins planned to offer then-California Sen. S.I. Hayakawa a job in the administration in exchange for not seeking re-election. From the AP article (accessed from the Nexis database): Sen. S.I. Hayakawa on Wednesday spurned a Reagan administration suggestion that if he drops out of the crowded Republican Senate primary race in California, President Reagan would find him a job. "I'm not interested," said the 75-year-old Hayakawa. "I do not want to be an ambassador, and I do not want an administration post." [...] In an interview earlier this week, Ed Rollins, who will become the president's chief political adviser in January, said Hayakawa would be offered an administration post if he decided not to seek re-election. No offer has been made directly to Hayakawa, Rollins said. mediamatters.org