Obama going to bat for Sestak
(CNN) - Time - and apparently campaign money - can heal old wounds.
Two Democratic officials confirm President Obama is headed to Philadelphia on September 20 to host a fundraiser for the Senate campaign of Democrat Rep. Joe Sestak, who survived a nasty primary battle that featured Obama backing incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (D) over the Congressman.
Top White House officials, including Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, were enmeshed in a huge controversy over whether they used former President Bill Clinton to dangle before Sestak an advisory job in the executive branch in exchange for him dropping out of the primary contest.
The Congressman refused the offer while White House officials have denied that any laws or ethical regulations were breached, and Sestak's campaign staff now says it's time for Democrats to put everything behind them.
"We're honored that the President would do an event with Joe during his trip to Pennsylvania," Sestak spokesman Jonathon Dworkin told CNN. "He and Joe may have had their differences, but they can agree that it is critical to elect a Senator who will put Pennsylvania's working families first."
Sestak needs as much help as he can get right now because recent polls show him trailing Republican nominee Pat Toomey, though a significant portion of the Pennsylvania electorate appears to still be undecided.
A recent poll by Ipsos/Reuters poll found Toomey up double digits, 47 percent to 37 percent, with 15 percent undecided. Meanwhile, a Franklin and Marshall College poll found Toomey leading 40 percent to 31 percent, but there was a whopping 26 percent undecided.
That may be one reason why Sestak officials have also been lobbying White House official to send the extremely popular First Lady Michelle Obama to Pennsylvania for a separate visit, according to Democratic officials.
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GOOD........ Joe Sestak......... is a good guy and a winner!
In NOvember vote NO for the Party of NO!
You can already hear , the beginnng of more lies.
Need to raise another 50 Million. When you read the fine print ,He will have FT. Knox , to share with Hamas an the terrorist he just had shipped here.
Well he didn;t want him near by , butn as one jackass to another , you , got me uner your thumb . Lke all others, Do as I say , an you will be rewarded . UH HUH , just a muslim finest hour , give me your money $$$$$ .
Yeah while youre at it why dont ya call "Slick Willie" and be sure to remind him that under his orders attorney general Janet Reno threatened bigger banks with discrimination lawsuits if they didnt approve poorly qualified minority homeowner loans Blame that bum Bush but a big big chunk of that housing bubble has Bill Clintons name all over ass well as an intensely deminished military
Flip Flop, first nobama was against sestak but now he is for him. Sestak better be careful, he probably had a better chance when nobama was against him, this just reminds people sestak is a DC insider.
Thank you Socilalist in Chief just another guarantee win for the republicans.
i am surprise he didnt want sestack to meet him martha vineyard or ohio...
Finally, a Democratic candidate with the guts to show up. And the voters are well advised not deciding on Toomey. I was stuck with him as my Congressman for six years and despite his fair-haired boy looks, he's an extremist as his leadership of the Club for Growth should indicate. If you aren't making millions each year, he's not on your side. And that includes small businesses.
Barry and Sestak can kick back and laugh about ILLEGAL job offers and such, but don't worr
y Sotero, we are coming after your lies after we take charge in November.
Have Shelly pack up some things before the FBI and others come for you, I can't wait to see her getting all neck snappy.
Hey look, more bad job numbers, of course the media is spinning that they are not so bad.............
Funny, when Bush actually created 200,000 jobs CNN said the numbers were "mixed" even when unemployment was well below FIVE PERCENT.
Remember in November.
Barry and Sestak can kick back and laugh about ILLEGAL job offers and such, but don't worry Sotero, we are coming after your lies after we take charge in November.
Have Shelly pack up some things before the FBI and others come for you, I can't wait to see her getting all neck snappy.
Hey look, more bad job numbers, of course the media is spinning that they are not so bad.............
Funny, when Bush actually created 200,000 jobs CNN said the numbers were "mixed" even when unemployment was well below FIVE PERCENT.
Remember in November.
SESTAK = INDEPENDENCE
I like Joe Sestak.
He has got that fight and independent streak to get things done for the people and the state.
Obama tried to buy Sestak off (FREE White House job!) and now he's going 'to bat' for him. Just like Obama, do whatever to move your agenda along. This man is corrupt and dirty.
Birds of a feather flock together.Neither of these two men have any principles.!!!
This means that Sestak will lose (but we knew that anyway) We were just glad that he knocked Arlen out of the way.
Good. Despite what some people are saying Obama DOES help. I know you want to equate the democrats loses to Obama's policies but the truth is the people just didn't want the individual running. Just because republicans RAN from Bush does not mean democrats are running from Obama. I truly believe we will unite in November (just as we did before). No one is eager to give our progress (slow as it may be sometimes) back into the hands of the same vulchers who created this mess. I can't wait to see the silence on this board in November. Job creation is going to start picking up and then what will the republicans have to complain about – that he's creating too many jobs. They are just that stupid.
As far as Obama creating trillions of dollars of debt. So what? I wasn't around during WWII and I had to help pay off that debt. Each generation is responsible for their own outcome. If these policies can better their lives – why shouldn't they take some responsibility? Its about NOW not tomorrow. Tomorrow can and has always taken care of itself.
I think this is great! Maybe while they are together the Press will ask both of them to tell us what really happened when the White House called Sestak to offer him a high level job to drop out of the primary against Sen Specter? What we have so far is clearly a lying cover up!
"@ Susan......I must disagree with you about Half Gov. Sarah Palin not facing the media. Palin faces the media everyda. She puts her information up on her Facebook Page for them to gobble up and then she satnds back and watches them jump all over it. Ohhhhhhhh pardon me. I was just informed that "Face"book is not "Facing" the media so I guess you are right.."
What a wonderfully absurd argument. Palin gutlessly says whatever comes into her muon-sized brain, no matter how untrue, ridiculous, incorrect, misinformed or uneducated it is or sounds, then REFUSES to go anywhere or talk to anyone who will ask her questions about it that she simply can't answer because what she said was not the product of informed critical thinking, but just regressive, reactionary drivel said for partisan political purposes. Then, when the media says "wow, doesn't that just sound really stupid? or questionable? or what the heck was she talking about?" she gets all bent out of shape, throws a diva-style hissy fit and wets her adult pampers when it all could have been avoided if she would do the interviews and ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT SHOW SHE HAS A RATIONAL, REASONABLE, INFORMED EXPLANATION AND DEFENSE FOR WHAT SHE SAID. What's so hard about that? It's very easy. "I said X, because A, B, C, D, E, F, G." But you see, she doesn't have a rational and reasonable explanation ebcause SHE'S NOT INFORMED...ergo, she avoids all media who might ask her a tough question and projects her ineptitude, cowardice and purely biased behavior upion everyone else, claiming that legitimately tough questions are a "set up" and "they're just trying to shake me down." She's pitiful...and the vast majority of America knows.
...and the Republicans stand in applause, thanking the President.
Offer him another job once he loses in November!
Watch out – the vast majority of Americans do not approve of Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the other democrats that have destroyed our nation.
No more Sestak!
No more deficits!
No more taxes!
No more Democrats!
Obama can't help this man, he can only hurt his chances of winning...
Oh good, Sestak is doomed!
OK. If you are a party member you are to support the nominee of the party. All parties have this rule. This is why I would not join any party. What if I really cant stand the nominee I have broken the rule and I might not be allowed to be a delegate.
He is running against TOOMEY who is a wall street bedpartner and responsible for writing legislation responsible for the near collapse. His biggest contributors to his campaign are wall street investors. He also was in favor of privatizing social security which if it had been done and all those recipients would have invested in the stock market, they would have been eating dog food for the rest of their lives. Mr. Toomey lives in a mansion and eats caviar. If anyone for one second thinks he is for main street or the working class they are seriously mentally disturbed.
WOW, let the sucking up begin.
Odumbo is such a tard, he wasnt for him, now he is for him.
And people voted the fool into office....what were you thinking?
The kiss of Death!!!!!