The left echo chamber -- circling the wagons around Sestak and Obama

http://mediamatters.org/research/201005290003

From the article:

Ethics attorney Stan Brand: "Crime" charge is "far-fetched" and has "no legal substance." A May 27 Mother Jones article discussed Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-CA) allegation that a crime has been committed and quoted Stan Brand, a Washington, D.C., ethics attorney, responding that the claim was "far-fetched." Mother Jones further reported:

Those laws, Brand explains, were designed to deal with coercion, fraud, and vote-buying, not "the rough and tumble of political horse-trading." Promising someone a job, he adds, is not the same as exchanging "money or something of value." Moreover, he notes, there have never been any prosecutions of the sort Issa contemplates in this instance.

"This is a nice political ploy," Brand says. "But it has no legal substance. The president can promise Sestak the moon for a political reason. That's the system."

Really? The moon for political reasons. I don't think so. Can the President go to a politician like Sestak, unwanted in an election campaign, and promise him a home in Hawaii to get out of a race? And, as Obama loves to say, let's be clear -- going through Emanuel, then Clinton, is the same as doing it himself. It matters not what the thing of value is, a thing of value is a thing of value -- it's not like questioning the definition of "is" -- this is a promise of something of value to not enter a race.

What the left is intentionally clouding is that it wasn't just about trying to get Sestak to not enter the race for the good of the party -- it was a bribe to not get into the race. The left is once again intentionally misleading the public for political reasons, and Obama supporters are blindly accepting it. Why did it take so long to concoct this story? Hardly any on the left bother to consider why.