Joe Sestak is on “Tucker Carlson” defending Hillary Clinton’s performance in the Democrat debate, and later, her explanation on CNN about what she meant when she referred to “the old boy’s club” when she was at Wellesley.

Sestak says she’s doing no more than what John Kennedy did, when he said he was running not to be a Catholic president, but to be a president who happened to be Catholic. Sestak points out that since most Democrats are women, she ought to run as a woman. A smart and very capable woman, he adds, listing his encounters with her over the years.

What were those? Apparently, she asked him about China’s naval strength and how it might pose a threat to the US in the future.

Wow, one smart chick, was the reaction you were supposed to have.

Wow, indeed. Because, the Clinton-as- old-China-hand is a true enough meme — after a fashion. I mean China hand-outs. Think Norman Hsu, the apparel executive, who raised a good bit over $1 million for La Clinton’s campaign, making him one of the top 20 Democratic fund-raisers in the country.

Note, Hsu’s hedge-fund buddies like Stephen Schwartzman (of Blackstone group) are no different from Barack Obama’s hedge-fund buddies (Paul Tudor Jones and Orin Kramer). Hedge fund managers, we strive to remind ourselves, are also God’s creatures and every bit as deserving of representation as you or I. And if they swear that they have had nothing in return for their munificence, far be it from us to snicker (at least, not too much). We too have received a pay check (albeit several orders of magnitude smaller) from the well-heeled and have we shaped our mouth after our moolah..nein, gentle reader, so why not believe the same of Ms. Clinton?

Still….still..

Here’s what sticks in our craw: Sestak seems to be a bit of a China-hand himself:

To wit:

“Sestak is an ex-Navy admiral who served as Director of Defense Policy on the Clinton National Security Council from 1995 to 1997. Sestak often served in positions that required expertise in weapons and space technology. Sestak served in the G.W. Bush administration as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Warfare Requirements and Programs In fact, Sestak wrote a detailed report on Navy Space Policy Implementation in May 2005 before retiring from the service.

Despite his vocal campaign today, Sestak served in the Clinton White House as the “silent” watchdog over U.S. Defense policy. The reason why I can legitimately call Sestak the “silent” watchdog is because at no time during the various Clinton scandals did Sestak raise any alarm.

For example, the admiral did nothing to stop Chinese espionage from obtaining a vast array of American military technology. Sestak prides himself as being a patriot and an expert in military space technology, yet the records show that he remained silent when encrypted satellite communications systems, missile nose cone designs, and radiation-hardened chip technology were virtually given to the Chinese army….”

Of course, this comes courtesy of NewsMax,

perhaps a tad Clintonphobic?

More on this to come.

Meanwhile, there are delicious rumors about hired claques at the Democrat debate. That’s the lowdown about the surprising booing that greeted both Obama and Edwards when they accused Clinton of being a Beltway insider (hardly a shocking revelation).

And CNN reveals that a college student who expected to ask Clinton about Yucca mountain was instead steered to ask her about her preference in jewelry.