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My old boss, retired VADM Joe Sestak, is in the news again today.  Seems he is claiming the White House offered him a plumb federal job (SecNav?) last summer to keep him from running in a democratic primary against former Republican/now Democratic senator and all around crappy guy Arlen Specter for the Pennsylvania senate seat up this election cycle.

What is interesting about this is that while Sestak mentioned this offer during a media interview, the White House “vociferously” denies anything of the sort happened.

Notwithstanding where the truth may end up, as things stand right now, someone – the White House or Sestak – is lying out their ass.  How does that make you feel, Hope and Changers?  If I had to pick, I’d put my money on Sestak, and not only because I worked for him briefly in the Pentagon. The Obama White House has given Specter a ton of support and backing so it would be in their best interest to get Sestak out of the way. Plus, after a year of nothing but lies and half-truths and cheating and more lying, I don’t believe a word coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. If they said “Good Morning”, I’d peek out to see if the sun was rising or setting and then make my own determination if anything was good.

I know, I know….the Obama White House lying like a sack of manure.   So what else is new?

Sestak: White House Offered Me Federal Job to Drop Out of Senate Primary

Rep. Joe Sestak , a Pennsylvania Democrat, says the White House dangled a federal job in front of him to convince him to drop his primary challenge against incumbent Arlen Specter, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday.

Apparently it was an offer he could refuse.

Rep. Joe Sestak, who is causing heartburn for Democratic leaders by running against Arlen Specter for a Senate nomination in Pennsylvania, says the White House dangled a federal job in front of him in an attempt to entice him to drop out of the state’s Democratic primary, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday.

But the White House “vociferously” denies Sestak’s accusation, which came during a taping on a local Sunday news show. A White House official told Fox News that Sestak is expected to “clarify” the allegation.

Sestak, however, stood by his statement on Friday.

“I was asked a direct question yesterday and I answered it honestly,” Sestak told Fox News. “There’s nothing more to go into. I’m in this race now.”

Sestak didn’t elaborate on the circumstances during the Sunday show interview either, the Inquirer reported, but acknowledged that the job was a high-ranking position. Sestak told the show’s host that he would “never leave” the Senate race for a deal, the newspaper said.

Sestak later he said he recalled the White House offer coming in July as he was preparing to formally announce his Senate candidacy in August, the newspaper said.

During the same period this summer, the White House played an active role in clearing the primary for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the New York primary. President Obama persuaded Rep. Steve Israel not to challenge Gillibrand, and the White House may have figured prominently in Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s decision to stay out of the race. Harold Ford, who is mulling a challenge against Gillibrand, has warned the White House not to bully him.