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Michelle Obama helps children track Santa's Christmas Eve journey - with NORAD
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Posted on 12/25/2010 4:37:18 PM PST by traumer

Michelle Obama joined an American festive tradition when she fielded calls to a Santa-tracking switchboard last night.

The North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) has been tracking Santa's Christmas Eve travels for 55 years but this is the first time an American First Lady has joined in the fun.

A telephone link from Hawaii, where the Obamas are spending Christmas break, to NORAD, the joint U.S.-Canada command that monitors the North American skies from a control centre in Colorado Springs, allowed Mrs Obama to speak to excited American children keen to know Santa's whereabouts.

The White House said Mrs Obama took calls for 40 minutes and spoke with children from at least a dozen families.

'I was ecstatic because I was talking to the president's wife,' said Evan Race, 10.

'I was really surprised' said his eight-year-old sister Anna. Seven-year-old Colin Race also got to talk with Mrs Obama.

NORAD Tracks Santa, the official name of the exercise, began in 1955 when a Colorado Springs newspaper ad invited kids to talk to Santa on a hotline.

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1 posted on 12/25/2010 4:37:20 PM PST by traumer
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I am all wee-weed too..... :o)


2 posted on 12/25/2010 4:38:48 PM PST by traumer
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Oh, PLEASE.


3 posted on 12/25/2010 4:39:45 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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;o)


4 posted on 12/25/2010 4:40:34 PM PST by traumer
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So she’s not a muslim? Excuse my ignorance; stories about her are usually uninteresting/annoying/offensive/etc.


5 posted on 12/25/2010 4:41:07 PM PST by Silentgypsy
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To: traumer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cPXEo6gqBI&feature=related


6 posted on 12/25/2010 4:42:25 PM PST by tumblindice (Mexico: The World's Outhouse)
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Ain’t Esther is on the job.


7 posted on 12/25/2010 4:44:47 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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The Rookie & the Wookie. Just marvelous.


8 posted on 12/25/2010 4:47:41 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: screaminsunshine

Now THEY have your phone # and GPS co-ordinates....


9 posted on 12/25/2010 4:48:25 PM PST by traumer
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To: screaminsunshine

No, Aunt Esther is though.


10 posted on 12/25/2010 4:49:14 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: traumer
Mesquite
11 posted on 12/25/2010 4:49:35 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Stupid Obama still lacks the experience needed to be President.)
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But I am so under the Radar it will not help them.


12 posted on 12/25/2010 4:50:02 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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Was she shoveling ice cream down her throat at the time?


13 posted on 12/25/2010 4:50:56 PM PST by Cisco Nix (Real Conservatives stay sober and focused)
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'I was ecstatic because I was talking to the president's wife,' said Evan Race, 10.

No, little Evan, you were being used.

14 posted on 12/25/2010 4:52:37 PM PST by rickmichaels
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What she won’t tell us is that they have put up a no fly zone around the white house for Santa because they don’t believe in giving gifts to children.

Bastards.


15 posted on 12/25/2010 4:52:55 PM PST by RetSignman ("It's about saving our Republic, STUPID")
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She doesn’t celebrate Christmas but helps track Santa. And she tells what one of her girls wants for Christmas. These people will lie about anything.


16 posted on 12/25/2010 4:54:25 PM PST by Terry Mross ( Reagan made one mistake: He chose Bush as his veep. We've been paying for it ever since.)
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Santa better watch out.

Last year Michelle stole his belt!

17 posted on 12/25/2010 4:54:39 PM PST by anglian
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To: Cisco Nix

Santa would not need all those reigndeer. Just have MOsquach pull the damn thing herself.


18 posted on 12/25/2010 4:55:33 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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Janet Napolitano was trying to get the AF to shoot Santa down, claiming she was protecting the “American People”.


19 posted on 12/25/2010 5:08:42 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
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“Just have MOsquach”

I close my eyes and pretend I’m Santa. I can not see around that fat ass. I crash into a chim...... lol


20 posted on 12/25/2010 5:15:13 PM PST by Cisco Nix (Real Conservatives stay sober and focused)
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