Nancy has no hard feelings because she remembers that her husband got along well with chimps of MoBama's sort.
Posted on 11/09/2008 9:17:49 AM PST by kristinn
Veteran reporter and talk radio host Andrea Shea King reported this weekend at her blog, The Radio Patriot that a close friend of the Reagan family has contradicted the claim by the Obama administration-in-waiting that President-elect Obama had a "warm conversation" with former First Lady Nancy Reagan when he called her to apologize for insulting her at a press conference Friday afternoon.
Responding to a question by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times about whether he had consulted with "any living ex-presidents", Obama replied:
"In terms of speaking to former presidents, I've spoken to all of them that are living. Obviously, President Clinton — I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.
"I have reread some of Lincoln's writings, who's always an extraordinary inspiration.
"And, by the way, President Carter, President Bush, Sr., as well as the current president have all been very gracious and offered to provide any help that they can in this transition process."
Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter issued a statement several hours after the press conference about Obama's call to Mrs. Reagan:
"President-elect Barack Obama called Nancy Reagan today to apologize for the careless and off-handed remark he made during today’s press conference. The president-elect expressed his admiration and affection for Mrs. Reagan that so many Americans share and they had a warm conversation."
Yesterday, a Reagan insider gave a differing account of the phone call:
"Nancy is at home, comfortable, giving her pelvic bone a chance to heal from what was in fact a minor break. I know that he called Nancy to apologize and she was not warm to him."
The Reagan insider also expressed their own opinion on Obama's remarks:
"I was not thrilled by President-Elect Obama's gaffe in his press conference when he said that he had consulted all the living presidents but couldn't talk to Ronald Reagan because he wasn't going to do a Nancy Reagan thing and have a seance. His wide grin after saying that, like "Am I clever, or what?" was, in my opinion, a very poor example of what he'll be like when he is on his own, without a script and a teleprompter, speaking with the tough leaders of Russia, Iran and North Korea."
King said in her report the Reagan insider wishes to remain anonymous.
Obama's remark was not only insulting, it was factually inaccurate, as ABC News' Jake Tapper reported Friday:
Incidentally, Nancy Reagan never held a séance at the White House, though she was reported to have consulted with an astrologer when planning her husband's schedules. It was Mary Todd Lincoln who regularly held séances.
When she was first lady, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., worked with spiritual adviser Jean Houston to access an "Eleanor Roosevelt-like consciousness" from within her own psyche. Clinton wrote in a column that Roosevelt "usually responds by telling me to buck up, or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros."
Based in central Florida, Andrea Shea King hosts a talk show on BlogTalk Radio weeknights at 9 Eastern. She previously hosted shows at WDBO-AM, WMMB-AM, and WMEL-AM, was an anchor and reporter at at WESH-TV and a columnist for Florida Today newspaper.
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LOTS!
Where is this on Drudge? I don’t see it, Drumbo.
Nancy has no hard feelings because she remembers that her husband got along well with chimps of MoBama's sort.
“Reagan WAS presidential.”
Another nailhead has been hit.
We are witnessing the “Fake it ‘til you make it” Presidency.
It was Willie Lincoln, not Tad. Willie died in the White House in February 1862, in fact, in the same bed that's in the Lincoln Bedroom now. Mary Lincoln had bought the bed for her husband, but he never slept in it. Tad Lincoln, whose given name was Thomas, died in Chicago at the age of 18 (1871). Robert Todd Lincoln, the oldest, was the only child of the Lincoln's four sons who lived to be an old man. Their second son Edward died in 1850.
Well, at least she did that!
>>Wait a second here! Are you saying he is not president yet?<<
Nope he’s not the president yet, just the chosen one, the messiah, the anointed one .... you know
king s&it of turd island.
What I gleaned from this is that he didn’t intend to make the joke about Nancy Reagan, but came up with it to cover the fact that he actually added “living” in serious response. It was only after he said it that he realized how stupid it was and then tried to cover it with the referral to seances.
This guy is going to provide so much material. Take away the script and teleprompter and Obama and Biden will provide fodder for the comedians til the cows come home.
Can you imagine if Bush or Palin had done this?
I’ve always wondered if that is real or photoshopped.
LOL. Why surely you don't expect the former President of the Harvard Law Review and a 12-year lecturer at U. of Chicago Law School to actually know anything about the US Constitution?
Seriously what were you thinking? :^)
p.s. Imagine if Bush or McCain or any Republican were blundering about in these ways...... we'd never hear the end of it in the media, but the Obamanation gets a free pass, always.
He spent his childhood trying to find his identity - his mother shipped him off, his father abandoned him, raised by white grandparents but he is black. He decided to hate - well at least distrust - white people.... from what I can tell.
Man oh man did you get that one wrong
Swing and a miss for you there
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Currently the six story down in the center column. “Obama apologizes to Nancy Reagan for ‘seance’ crack...”
It links to http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081108183359.ficynmus&show_article=1
No, He has nothing to gain from dead granny anymore.
She probably was cremated along with his BC.
Notice the stupid MSM is too long lost and biased to ask about it.
If only The One had come out white instead of black!
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