by Colby Itkowitz
President Barack Obama is scheduled to headline a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak in Philadelphia on Sept. 20.
First reported by Politicspa, Obama will be at several events in Pennsylvania that same day. (John Callahan, perhaps?)
This will be the first time Obama has campaigned for/with Sestak this election cycle. Obama did not hide his support for Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary and his administration not so slyly tried to convince Sestak to drop his bid against Specter.
"We're honored that the President would do an event with Joe during his trip to Pennsylvania," Sestak spokesman Jonathon Dworkin told Politicspa. "He and Joe may have had their differences, but they can agree that it is critical to elect a Senator who will put Pennsylvania's working families first."
(Cross posted from Pennsylvania Ave.)





Comments
One Democrat having a fundraiser for another Democrat. In Pennsylvania.
Shouldn't they be spending their time on more important things, such as fixing the economic damage they've caused?????
Posted by: Equal time | September 3, 2010 4:38 PM
BO, I'll take your cash but I won't take your job offers.
Love Joe.
P.S. - I might need that job offer come Janaury if you keep running the country over the cliff
Posted by: Terry | September 3, 2010 5:32 PM
Oh yea...this is the guy the community-organizer-in-chief tried to bribe with a job to drop out of the race. We may hear about this criminal act again soon when the Republicans take control in November.
All the usual shady suspects are involved in this one...B.J. Clinton, Rham, and Osama.
Makes Scooter Libby look like an archangel compared to these low life political thugs.
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | September 3, 2010 8:53 PM
Looks like Obama is going to have to do all the heavy lifting himself.
So, what's new?
He's used to that.
He could use some help on the backfield.
Posted by: ornery | September 3, 2010 10:48 PM
President Obama is doing what every leader of their Party does, he helps other Democrats, get elected. There's really no surprise in that, is there? Senator Arlen Specter, in my books, was a very good Senator, on whatever side of the aisle he happened to be. I wish I could say the same for Senator Shelby, whose switch was strictly convenience, the same with Senator Lieberman's switch. I hated to see Senator Spector go, but Representative Sestak will represent Pennsylvania well. If he is half the public servant, that another Admiral was, he will do, very well. What the heck, he can't be all bad, a former Senator and Vietnam Veteran, Senator Chuck Hagel is supporting him. I told you, there are still a few good Republicans, out there. They surface from time to time. I wish it would be more often, if for no other reason, then to check these hooligans that are masquerading as Republicans, but who in fact are Republican-Libertarian-T.Baggers. The thugs of this political season!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | September 4, 2010 9:14 AM
I smell a rat. I don;t believe whole story has been told.
First they don't want him to
run against the turncoat{Specter} and now their going to raise money for him?. Maybe they need another special prosecutor.
Posted by: Paul | September 4, 2010 9:21 AM
Great News! The kiss of death for Sestak!!
I hope Obummer comes out and campaigns for ALL the Democrats.
Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2010 12:10 PM
Dear BO,
Remember that job you offered me a few months ago that I turned down, come November, I might need it.
Joe Sestak
Posted by: Terry | September 6, 2010 4:45 PM
Of Birthers and Truthers, Part One
So much has been written and said about so-called “Birthers,” those people who question Barack Hussein Obama’s status as a “natural born citizen,” and so-called “Truthers,” those who question the official account of the events on September 11th, 2001, that it’s nearly impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The wheat, that is, the truth, is there, somewhere buried deep beneath all the chaff, the baloney and propaganda, but unearthing that truth is no simple matter for someone who has never subscribed to either the Birther or Truther alleged conspiracies.
Let’s immediately dispel the most common slander employed against the Birthers namely that they’re racists who cooked up the whole Obama birth controversy out of their antagonism toward the first black president in America’s history.
There is no substantive proof of a racist motivation on the part of Birthers. That charge of racism has been used from the beginning of Obama’s candidacy to dismiss virtually all who speak ill of the man, his beliefs, or his policies.
It’s an excellent, if underhanded, ploy when you think about it, deftly tossing the racist card into the campaign mix whenever someone criticized Obama. Rarely tossed overtly, it was more often implicit and probably garnered a few million white votes cast by those who wanted desparately to assure themselves and others that they weren’t racists.
It’s also more than curious that the MSM fell all over itself dismissing and ridiculing Birthers with no real effort to investigate their contentions and standpoint, much like they did with interrelated rumors that Obama was really a Muslim and as they subsequently did with regard to the Tea Party Movement.
That failure alone is reason enough to give at least some credence to the Birthers.
(Incidentally, there’s no substantive proof, either, that Birthers are a disturbed product of a resurrection of Hillary Clinton’s “vast, right wing conspiracy.”)
As a non-Birther, I figured going directly to the source was the best bet toward determining just how valid a case the Birthers made for their view that Barack Hussein Obama was a poseur not constitutionally-entitled to the presidency no matter how many votes he received . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1894)
Posted by: Berlet98 | September 13, 2010 3:29 AM