President Barack Obama was unaware a top aide encouraged a Colorado Democrat to apply for an international development job instead of challenging the candidate whom the president favored in a Senate race, the White House said Thursday.
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs faced fresh questions about another backroom political deal — the first involving a Pennsylvania candidate, now a Colorado hopeful — that put the Obama administration on the defensive. The White House acknowledged that it had contacted former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff about possible jobs in hopes of persuading him to skip the Senate primary.
I bet the new media would not have given Bush this kind of wide leeway if he was cooking up these kind of offers so that Republicans didn't have to run. If any media member does break away we might actually get a Watergate 2 on our hands so I bet they will keep a lid on it.
I n any case I think the "Chicago Way" might not be such a good idea going forward unless the White House is itching to hear the dreaded words: President Joe Biden.
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