Should Obama be investigated for felony bribery?

Nothing to cover up. We make political/job decissions everyday in local, state and federal elections. Every party trys to influence each district with the best candidate for the job. Occasionally they look for the stupidest possible candidate and, by all evidence, we have run a few of them. Read exactly what the boy in Colorado said and there is no story here. They asked him how intent he was on running and was he looking to do other service or looking for a job in other service. Can we move on to real issues. If this is illegal I am going to have to quit having political conversations in local politics. If this is illegal then we can never ask again "who should we run for supervisor" or the local sheriff.. Do we not ask these people what their intentions and ambitions are before we put them on the ballet?

Oh I think this needs to be investigated. Something stinks in their story. Sestak said he was offered a job to drop out of the primary. Yet the white house says Rahm asked Clinton to offer Sestak committee appointments to drop out. Right there they admit to offering him something to drop out. But I don't buy what they offered him. He legally could not take those appointments. If you are going to send an ex president to offer something to someone to do what they want...you are NOT going to offer thing that person can't take. Sestak could not take those committee positions...even if he did drop out of the race. Clinton would have know it. Rahm would have know it. Obama would have known it. Sestak would have known that. You and both know they would not have gone to him with that bad offer to get out of the race. So all sides admit that something was offered. But I think they are lying about what was offered. A cover up is going on. By the way...others are coming out of the wood works now to say the white house administration offered them jobs in leu of running in an election. Seems playing with elections is hobby of the white house. I don't know how this is going to go. The dems have enough control in congress to blow this over...and it so far does not look like the justice department wants to touch it. So unless something major happens...they might just get away with it.

I think Obama should be at that trail and I think he is just as guilty as sin...He got a supena from Blogo and I feel Obama needs to testify in his part of the deal....He's just as guilty as Blogo and it's time he starts taking reponsibllity for it...... Or is this another cause of it's Bushes fault???????He gets blamed for everything including Al and Tipper Gores break up......I think Tipper just smarted up and knows she's getting away from that big liar.......

First and foremost, there should be an INDEPENDENT investigation. Somebody who has never met nor has any connection to Obama, clearly no Democrats! With the three claims (oddly similar) Obama should have to answer. This will not happen. He will be shielded. The man is no dummy. You notice it is every body elses hands that are dirty. He will walk away clean, I will bet you a tenner! A little side note, if the dems want ANY chance of winning that seat here, they are better served with Romanoff. Benett is an idiot!

From everything that I have read about the matter, 0bama should be investigated, impeached, and then incarcerated. He has admitted to offering a job to Sestak if he would agree not to run, and this is very definitely illegal. Now Romanoff says that there were jobs offers dangled in front of him as well. I think it is time that the most corrupt administration in our history be brought to it's inevitable inglorious end.

This is far from the first time this has happened. Ask Christine Todd Whitman who had a very promising political career before she was asked to be the head of the EPA, instead of continuing her political career because of her moderate views (they then tried to destroy her, remember the global warming report that the administration bashed and made them change the wording?). Funny how there was no investigation of that. I wonder why you haven't heard many of the former members of the Bush administration talk about this. This is because offers like this happen all of the time, and I am sure that you can go back and investigate the Whitman case, and she would be more than happy to throw Bush under the bus!! If there is an investigation then I feel it should be of this practice in general, and should look at ALL cases of this. I think it would also be good to get both of these guys under OATH to tell their story, seeing how both seem to be afraid of something.

Taskr, I'm sure you think I'm trying to dodge the question but I'm honestly not! as you may know, I had back surgery last week so I've been here kind of sporadically, depending on how long I'm able to sit on this computer chair. I really want to look at this as objectively as possible and I don't want to jump to conclusions either way before I have all the facts. Basically, I'd have to know pretty much exactly what was said and how it was worded before forming an opinion about something as serious as felony bribery. This much I will say, and I AM being objected - it would have to be pretty darn serious and pretty darn "cut and dried" before I'd unequivocally say there needs to be a huge deal made out of it simply because we can't afford it and we have far too many more serious things to worry about right now. Let's put it this way, there have been many times in our past under Administrations of both parties where there have been long, drawn-out investigations that have ended up being wastes of time as well as when there probably should have been investigations but weren't. "Politics as usual" has been going on for far too long, I sure won't argue about that. I definitely do think we need to get to the bottom of this and we need to take steps to prevent this sort of thing, even the suspicion of this sort of thing from happening in the future. I'm going to be very honest and candid with you now, at the risk of being greatly criticized and mocked or whatever; I possibly should recuse myself from giving my own personal opinion on this for the simple reason that as a Pennsylvanian the worst thing I can think of right now is "Senator Toomey"! We had "Senator Santorum" for too long and that hasn't been that long ago so my memories of that time are still quite vivid. That's why I had such a struggle over who should get my vote in the primary. My fear is that the issues will get lost in this election. What was that saying - "All politics are local"? Annie

With the new allegations of essentially the same thing being made now by Andrew Romanoff, I definitely think that failing to investigate would be a serious matter and one the American public will take note of. For anyone who missed it, Romanoff says possible positions he might qualify for if he didn't run for Senate were discussed with him by Jim Messina, deputy chief of staff. Romanoff is running for the senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet in Colorado. And Romanoff has an email to prove it. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15213784 "Romanoff, responding to increased pressure from national media and Republicans attacking the Obama White House, released an e-mail sent to him Sept. 11, 2009, by administration deputy chief of staff Jim Messina describing two possible jobs with the U.S. Agency for International Development, affiliated with the State Department, and one with the U.S. Trade Development Agency. "

Im from the UK and don't really understand what he has supposed to do or whether it is likely he has done it but if there is suspicion he has done something wrong it should be investigated if he is innocent of any wrongdoings it will clear his name beyond doubt and if guilty he can be brought to justice.

I think there's been wrongdoing and a few people need to be convicted and sentenced. The investigation needs to be broadened from Sestak to Colorado and wherever the next one fesses up. And anyone who tells me the President wasn't aware, I say B.S.