{"id":545603,"date":"2010-04-27T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.34459"},"modified":"2010-04-27T19:28:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:28:43","slug":"obama-and-giannoulias-at-quincy-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545603","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Giannoulias at Quincy Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Don&#8217;t expect President Obama to give a campaign-related shoutout to Illinois Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias when Obama delivers a speech in Quincy on Wednesday because it is a government, not a political event, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Obama flew to the Midwest on Tuesday on a swing to include stops in Quincy and events in Iowa and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Burton, during a briefing, was asked about Giannoulias, an Obama friend who is the Illinois state treasurer. Giannoulias will be in Quincy in his role as an elected official&#8211;not a candidate. All statewide elected officials in the states were invited.<\/p>\n<p>Burton was asked,  &#8220;Do you think the President is going to acknowledge his presence and talk a little bit about his campaign, which is sort of having some trouble at the moment,&#8221; a reference to the failure last week of the family controlled Broadway Bank.<\/p>\n<p> Replied Burton, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it would be appropriate for the President to talk about anybody&#8217;s campaign at what are all official events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Don&#8217;t expect President Obama to give a campaign-related shoutout to Illinois Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias when Obama delivers a speech in Quincy on Wednesday because it is a government, not a political event, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said Tuesday. Obama flew to the Midwest on Tuesday on a swing to include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545603","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\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}