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.
Ummm Abs...ads....ahs....oooooohhhh I know.....
ASS.....
Monk get on Ping 73 quick LOL!
but couldn’t talk to Ronald Reagan because he wasn’t going to do a Nancy Reagan thing and have a seance.
Geez! I thought he just made a reference to her use of astrologers. What a SCUMBAG!! Not my president! Election stolen with foreign dollars and dead votes.
Right, Michael would never endorse a Lib.
**Incidentally, Nancy Reagan never held a séance at the White House**
All we need to know.
Nothing is by chance from his MINIONS......he has Many, Many DEVIOUS, EVIL people surrounding him.
He’s a real class act.
I’m sure he was ‘scratching his mouth with his middle finger’ when he spoke to the former First Lady.
Yes, he does.
Luke 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Matthew 12:40 Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Luke 20:47 Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Whoa... was this in a sermon? I've been saying this for months now, but a priest saying so in a sermon is very good backup.
Just waiting for the next person to ping me from this thread with the news. You are about number 15 in line. I feel really popular tonight.
You have a HOLY Priest.
seeing as I have not watched TV since the election I can only assume that this has not been a major focus of the media but instead they ignored it
am I right??????????????????????????????????
I hope Nancy gave him hell and told him off like a little immature classless boy he is
I shudder to think what the oval office and the white house will be like with these classless idiots in there
HE SHOULDN’T VEEN BE PRESIDENT, if the media looked into his illegal multiple voting, Acorn, connections, illegal money
he shouldn’t even be a senator
he made this election look like a third world election and the third world media helped him
shame on you
I never learn, I just post when I read one and I was at the top of the thread.
Your apology was gracious. I apologize to you too.
It's good to see so many people care so much about this.
funny how the libs and the biased pathetic media think America is now the darling of the world and yet Britain ,France and Italy’s leaders have all made damning remarks about obama
France called him immature FFS
of course we are now liked off some people
Iran’s leader, chavez, Hamas,Castro , Libya leader have all made comments which are very complimentary for obama
so what we have here is our enemies have all made nice gestures about obama and our allies, those countries who have sacrificed their men and women in this war are not too pleased about obama
speaks volumes, well done dumb ignorant whitey for your ignorance and guilt
well done Amercians Jews for the most part for being ignorant
well done blacks for being racist in your voting
non white man comes aloing and you all come out to vote
and well done media fro electing and ignoring this phoony, corupt racist, sexist man and wife
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