OH, SO THAT'S IT – AT 7:25 P.M. ET:  Ah, finally, we know the truth about the Sestak affair.  Our great national nightmare is over.

You may remember (organ music, please) that Congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania said that he was offered a job by the Obama White House, essentially a bribe, if he would drop out of the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate.  The White House hotly denied that anything improper had taken place.  Sestak did not drop out, has now won the primary against incumbent Arlen Specter, and is the Dem candidate, suddenly supported by Barack Obama.

So the White House comes clean, or at least as clean as this White House can come.  It now says that, yes, a guy had been recruited to talk to Sestak about his political future.  That guy was former President Bill Clinton.  And Clinton, yes, discussed in general terms, the possibility of other service for Sestak, like service on an unpaid government board.  And that's all there was to it.

Yeah?  Oh, yes, Sestak now says, that's all there was to it. 

Are we serious here?  Is the White House asking us to believe that it recruited a former president to have a general discussion with a candidate for the U.S. Senate about the glowing possibilities of unpaid service on a federal board, where the biggest perk is a better filing cabinet?  Are we really serious?

And if that's all there was, why has Sestak said, over and over, that he'd been offered a job, which implies a paycheck?  Was he lying?  If he's lying, why should anyone vote for him for senator?

This requires further inquiry.  Will we get it?  I doubt that the mainstream media, still cherishing its Obama buttons from the last election, will get too excited.  But the whole story doesn't hold water.  Fox News to the rescue, please.

May 28, 2010