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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What fabricated BS by the writer.
I'm 120 years old and only learned how to pronounce "ecstatic" a couple years ago.
Santa better watch out.
Last year Michelle stole his belt!
And it’s buckled in the last hole!
I’m 120 years old and only learned how to pronounce “ecstatic” a couple years ago.
You don’t look a day over 95!
“24/7—We Gots Wood.”
Treebeard & the Ents
I bought a Ruger SR9, Glockster. Sweeeeet!
I'm sure it was all PR, a "touchy-feely" moment to try to make them look like regular people. BS. They are elitist to the core. MOsquatch couldn't spell NORAD let alone name where it's headquarters is, or even guess as to who else (other than the US) is involved in it.
What a nightmare. If my kids were young enough to be calling in to ask where Santa was, mo is one of the last people on Earth I'd want them to talk to. Well, at least she is a few dozen people above her husband hussein who would come in at about dead last.
In the words of the immortal Church Lady -
“Welllllll, isn’t that special.”
“Wow. That get up looks even worse from behind.”
No, it’s not the getup. Her behind looks even worse from behind - LOL
You’re killin’ me! ROFLM(own)AO!!!
Where was the barf alert?
So that is what it is..a fertility..oh I can’t say it or I’ll be banned!
What? She didn’t have a pink belt to go with the pink sweater or the pink plaid. I was taught not to mix those two colors to look right.
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