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.
Oh, I’m just a huge Michael Reagan fan, ready to defend him in a blink!
not seen the TV since the election but was wondering if they had covered grannies funeral
now I know they haven’t and they are not asking why obama hasn’t gone to the funeral
she comes out with a broken hip , dies of cancer and has not been buried or no news of it.
course his trip over to there was the same time the birth certificate was going on
and STILL NO MEDIA WILL ASK OR INVESTIGATE OBAMA
Never followed him much. I just love Nancy cause she is the one I’ve seen the most of. Guess I will pay more attention to Michael Reagan from now on. I’m slow sometimes with the Reagan era stuff but enough people gave a me good enough wack today that I think I had pay better attention. :)~
Are you kidding? Michael Reagan was for Obama?! I can’t believe it! Tell me you’re kidding! I know Ron Reagan did. :(
I know. Geez. Will the lashing ever end? LOL.
I have it on very good authority that Micheal Reagan did not support Obama. My mistake.
So his wife is back ‘on limits’ now?
The time for the thug to apologize was *immediately* after he made the remark. Were he not such an a-hole, he wouldn’t have made the remark in the first place. But, hey, it’s should now be clear to all what’s on his mind.
Let the mythmaking begin.
As far as everyone’s concerned , Nancy Reagan is just
gaga over Obama, who deigned to call her even though he’s the Messiah-in-Waiting for all of us.
I wouldn’t have been “warm” to him either.
As the old Southern saying goes “I couldn’t warm up to that guy if we were cremated together”.
You owe me a keyboard. I'll never get the coffee out of this one.
MM (in TX)
No, Barack Obama, you get no honeymoon. You cannot unite us. It was no coincidence that the Illinois lottery, the day after the election, had the number 666.
I wish I could have overheard that conversation!
Good point. :-)
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."
I suspect Nancy may have been "warm" in a different sense. I know how "warm" I'd be. It frankly disgusts me that this egotist has a press conference two days after his election and has to immediately apologize to a former first lady. He will NOT be my president. I will not give credence to, support for, or consider approbation for a man who's agenda includes removing any restraints from the murder of infants. He is apart from God. Willingly. I have no use for him.
We have a feisty bunch of priests. The thing about his eyes he said out on the patio when we were all talking. He’s a fire-breather, this one. (And it is a breath of fresh air after the church we left where the priest, at the pulpit, referred to ‘his friend the fundamentalist’(that was me; I had challenged him about Original Sin, I believe, and he poo-pooed me). The good ones are out there and they are starting to speak out. Talk about needing prayer.
Hey, now that the One is in charge, along with buying gas and paying your mortgage, you won’t have to worry about paying for a new keyboard.
thats right, he never returned to Hawaii to bury the woman that really raised him.
It wasn't Tad, but Willie, the second son. Tad died at age 18 after he and his mother had returned from a European trip. This was some years after leaving the WH.
Our fearless leader told the Poles that he’s just not sure that the US will provide them with missile defense. In other words, our allies can expect the One to vote “present” when it comes to defending our common interests.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081108181056.uyrb8o2l&show_article=1
This is the way the One treats our staunchest allies? Selling them out to our enemies?
Israel, are you watching?
Can’t believe anything he says so I don’t bother listening at all.
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