And most damning of all, if the explanation was as simple as a call from Bubba to Pennsylvania Joe, why couldn't Robert Gates have answered that question two months ago when he was asked daily for a period of weeks from the press as to the specifics of what had happened?
These questions are not satisfactorily answered by what many in the legal field are now calling the "whitewash memo" from the White House.
The final portion of this narrative, "It's not really criminal anyway, after all, it's only a misdemeanor," is the least satisfying portion of this entire saga.
The voters of Pennsylvania, most likely feel as though they've been dealt with quite dirty. At the very minimum clear evidence that the White House did indeed attempt to influence their choices and manipulate the outcome of a Senate race exists. An attempt to use his bully pulpit and all the resources that come with it, demonstrated that President Obama would use his power in a corruptive way to generate an outcome of his choosing--not the voters.
The fact that Rahm Emmanuel and Bill Clinton are also attached to this story only belie the likelihood of monkey business, not the assurance of its absence. After all it was these two characters that took great delight fifteen years ago to put the legal system through tortured distortions of things like the word "is."
Breaking laws is not the only way to injure a hurting nation. Acting unethically is not strictly defined by acting illegally. The voters of Pennsylvania deserve to know the entire set of facts and as such should demand in their own state's interest an independent investigation, whether the feds look into it or not. If it turns up nothing, then they may have the confidence to vote for Sestak in November without fear.
But if the White House stalls, delays, disallows, or disrupts an investigation undertaken by the feds or the State of Pennsylvania then the only and last resort Pennsylvanians will have is to vote for Pat Toomey in overwhelming numbers to assure that their choice is executed without manipulation.
Crimes don't have to be committed for wrong doing to be exposed, and whether or not what the White House did was a felony, misdemeanor, or a legal act, there can be no dispute that, "We the people" were thwarted and that maleficent political action must be accounted for.