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What if Sestak Wasn't the Only One?

Alex128 Wrote: May 29, 2010 8:48 PM

I was also unable to muster enough outrage at the administration offering an out and out bribe to Stestak.....Why? Because that is the way everything is done in Chicago (where I'm from). Richard J. Daley, Jane Burns, Harold Washington, Richard M. Daley. I literally grew up believing that was the way things were done. It was very confusing to be taught one set of ethics at home and see another set of contrasting ethics being practiced by the Chicago political machine.

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What if Sestak Wasn't the Only One?

Political payoffs are so commonplace in Washington that I was initially unable to muster an appropriate level of outrage at hearing that Rep. Joe Sestak had accused the Obama administration of offering him a job in exchange for his withdrawal from the Pennsylvania Democratic senatorial primary.

Until, that is, I heard President Barack Obama's senior advisor David Axelrod explain to CNN's John King that though there was "no evidence" (hey, if the administration's senior advisor claims there is no evidence we should move along) if such an offer were made, it would constitute "a serious breach of the law."

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