Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate Candidate is hoping voters have both short and long term memory problems. Former President Bill Clinton will be making an appearance today at a campaign rally for US Representative Joe Sestak (D-Pennsylvania) - the very candidate the Obama administration sent Mr. Clinton to bribe into dropping out of the primary. Mr. Sestak refused the offer of a presidential advisory position, stayed in the race and defeated Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pennsylvania) for the Democratic nomination so now the administration is sending Mr. Clinton again - this time to pretend it's the Clinton presidency that Mr. Sestak would be supporting.

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According to Sestak spokesman Jonathon Dworkin, "He (Sestak) is honored that President Clinton, who created 22 million jobs during his administration, would offer to come into Pennsylvania for his campaign." (source) Unfortunately for Mr. Sestak, the current president which he has supported with his House votes is pushing an agenda that is resulting in a dismal job market with no hope (or change) in sight.

But Representative Sestak is betting that the Clinton charisma will somehow convince voters it's still the 1990's when the President of the United States was merely a pathetically incompetent philanderer instead of a dangerously incompetent president. Perhaps he can also convince them to forget the Republican Revolution of 1994 that prevented the Clinton administration from slipping into the liberal wasteland of federal power grabs, unsustainable deficit spending and job killing legislation that now defines the Obama administration.

Meanwhile, further proof that Democrats just don't want Pennsylvania voters to decide who their next senator will be; Mr. Sestak is trying to keep another candidate out of the race. On Monday he filed a ballot challenge against Mel Packer, the Green Party candidate running for Senate seeking to have Mr. Packer's nominating petitions set aside. This is the second such move by Mr. Sestak who earlier this year successfully kept businessman Joe Vodvarka off the primary ballot. (source)

It's understandable why Representative Sestak is desperate to keep any candidate who may win liberal votes from running. Latest polls show him trailing Republican Pat Toomey by at least 6 points and the Toomey campaign has just come out with a new ad that simply and effectively states the difference between the candidates:

No wonder the Sestak strategy is to hope voters forget the last couple years ever happened.