Don't ASK, Don't Tell

The Politico does a story on Obama White House political guru David Axelrod's firm and its sale, including this snippet on the Chicago Children's Museum:

In July 2007, ASK was hired to rally public support for a new facility for the museum, which was supported by Mayor Richard Daley, whose campaign since 1999 has paid $950,000 to the predecessor to AKP&D. The month before the museum hired ASK, Obama announced that he had requested a $1 million earmark.

“We never asked for the earmark,” Sedler said in November.

Of course not.