{"id":359259,"date":"2010-02-24T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-6064353202076537134"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:34:35","slug":"chicago-politics-in-pennsylvania-arlen-kissed-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359259","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Politics In Pennsylvania: Arlen Kissed the Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S4VG08uOXGI\/AAAAAAAAFJU\/JTeRu2nBShc\/s1600-h\/obama_kissring.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 283px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S4VG08uOXGI\/AAAAAAAAFJU\/JTeRu2nBShc\/s320\/obama_kissring.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441833600214260834\" \/><\/a>Okay, be honest&#8230;don&#8217;t let me wax all conspiracy-theory-like if this has been all over the news and I&#8217;ve just missed it (The Man bought me a new sewing machine and I&#8217;ve been preoccupied with making all the baby&#8217;s old receiving blankets into cute little PJ pants&#8230;). But, I really don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen this anywhere&#8230;even FNC:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the face of a White House denial, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak stuck to his story yesterday that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">the Obama administration offered him a &#8220;high-ranking&#8221; government post if he would not run against U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Democratic primary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A White House official &#8220;vociferously&#8221; denied his account yesterday as Sestak insisted on national television that he had told the truth, but declined for a second day to divulge details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was asked a direct question . . . and I answered it honestly,&#8221; Sestak said in a Fox News interview. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing more to go into.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sestak made his startling claim Thursday during the taping of Comcast Network&#8217;s Larry Kane: Voice of Reason, a public affairs show televised on Sunday evenings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Were you ever offered a federal job to get out of this race?&#8221; Kane asked near the end of the 30-minute interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Sestak answered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Was it Navy secretary?&#8221; Kane asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No comment,&#8221; Sestak replied&#8230;&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/local\/84835732.html\">Read the whole story<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the fact that Senator Specter kissed the ring&#8230;it has already been shown that just because Obama wants someone elected they don&#8217;t always get elected&#8230;and we all know that it&#8217;s time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomeyforsenate.com\/\">PAT TOOMEY to take his rightful place in the Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-6064353202076537134?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, be honest&#8230;don&#8217;t let me wax all conspiracy-theory-like if this has been all over the news and I&#8217;ve just missed it (The Man bought me a new sewing machine and I&#8217;ve been preoccupied with making all the baby&#8217;s old receiving blankets into cute little PJ pants&#8230;). But, I really don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen this anywhere&#8230;even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}