Will Obama Be Indicted?

Posted on September 30, 2009

…this is the question Dave Price asks about this news.

Not long after news leaked last month that Andrew Romanoff was determined to make a Democratic primary run against Sen. Michael Bennet, Romanoff received an unexpected communication from one of the most powerful men in Washington.
Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s deputy chief of staff and a storied fixer in the White House political shop, suggested a place for Romanoff might be found in the administration and offered specific suggestions, according to several sources who described the communication to The Denver Post.
Romanoff turned down the overture, which included mention of a job at USAID, the foreign aid agency, sources said.

Ed Morrissey:

Offering positions paid by taxpayer money to potential challengers to Democratic incumbents is political corruption of the worst kind. It involves interfering with the choices made by Coloradans, conversion of public funds for partisan purposes, and the appointment of officials for cheap politics rather than qualifications.
In fact, I seem to recall a presidential candidate who campaigned on changing that kind of Beltway politics. One candidate based his run on Hope and Change, on full transparency, on judgment and clean government. He promised a New Direction, not Chicago-on-the-Potomac. Who was that masked man, anyway?

Are You Freakin Stupid?

You can take the politician out of Chicago, but you can’t take the Chicago politics out of the politician.

Jim Geraghty:

We’ll never see prosecution of this, but this seems to be at least in the neighborhood of violating a federal bribery statute, no? That statute seems to be written pretty broadly, and an appointment would seem to be “something of value” under the section that defines the crime as anyone who “directly or indirectly gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any public official, former public official, or person selected to be a public official, for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such public official, former public official, or person selected to be a public official.”

Jim is right. We won’t see prosecution on this. Mainly because no evidence has been provided. However, there seems to be a pattern of this kind of behavior at the White House. Karma usually catches up.

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