Considering today’s revelation that Bill Clinton served as a proxy for the illegal job offer between Barack Obama and Joe Sestak, it makes you wonder what was discussed. Especially since the White House also happened to call Sestak’s brother and campaign manager, um, yesterday.
Here’s the LA Times story from yesterday:
But before the presser, Obama will have lunch with someone who knows something about damage control.
Former President Clinton, whose affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky landed him in trouble with the law, Congress and his wife, might have a thing or two to tell Obama about how to handle a crisis.
Or maybe he’ll talk to him about triangulation — the strategy Clinton and consultant Dick Morris devised to cope with a Senate that had turned Republican — work both sides toward the middle. Yes, that’s the same Morris who’s now a conservative talker.
It’s possible, of course, that the topic at lunch has nothing to do with BP or the political fallout of what is becoming Obama’s Katrina, the hurricane in the gulf that caught the federal government asleep and turned George W. Bush into a lame-duck president.
Maybe Obama wants to talk to Clinton about undertaking some private diplomatic mission. Maybe Clinton wants to talk to Obama about coordinating with his William J. Clinton Foundation on issues of climate change, HIV/AIDS or First Lady Michelle Obama’s cause, childhood obesity.
Or maybe they talked about the felonious scandal in which the two of them are now involved.


by Stephan Tawney on May 28, 2010