Obama White House: You know who will help our credibility the most... a confessed perjuror!!!

According to the White House, Bubba is responsible for the job offer to Sestack.

The White House asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe Sestak about the possibility of obtaining a senior position in the Obama administration if he would drop out of the Democratic primary race against establishment-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, the Obama administration said in a report released Friday morning.

But the report, by White House Counsel Robert Bauer, concluded that "allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law."

Batting down allegations that the White House dangled the secretary of Navy position in front of Sestak, the report said that Sestak was offered executive branch positions on advisory boards that were uncompensated.

One of the jobs Clinton specifically discussed with Sestak was the president's intelligence advisory board. But a White House official said the plan always was for Sestak to remain in the House, and he couldn't have served in the House and on the president's intelligence advisory board.

The report also described the Clinton conversations as informal and not tied to any precise job offer since, as a former president, Clinton could not guarantee Sestak anything.

This is almost laughable - including the attempt to bury this in a Memorial Day Weekend news dump. If you believe this bullshit, you also have to believe:

* That Clinton honestly believed that Sestak would drop a bid for the Senate and all its perks for an unpaid advisory position

* That Clinton did not have the backing of the White House for any specific job to offer.

* That Sestak lied/exaggerated the significance of these "informal" discussions.

* That the White House would not have given Sestak a position if he had dropped out.

* That Sestak is sufficiently dim to not understand the difference between an advisory role and a "job".

* That Sestak is also sufficiently dim that he did not understand that Clinton's inquiries were only to explore Sestak's intentions about a Senate run and was of no further concern to the White House.

* And most importantly, that Sestak LIED when he said the "White House offered [him] a job to drop out".


Fortunately, Rep. Darrell Issa has his eye on the big picture (at least for now):

"This is about the White House. This is not about Congressman Sestak," Issa said, adding that he wants to know what Clinton was empowered to say. "They've answered a question and it begs many more answers," he said. "We want elections not to be appointments."

UPDATE:
Of course there is always the possibility that Sestak is liar. Sestak could have simply taken an offer of some glorified perk and railed against it to boost his "me-against-the-Washington-machine" bona fides.