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.
“When I think of Reagan, the last thing I ever think about is whether or not he was standing around his seal “looking” presidential. Reagan WAS presidential.”
Absolutely! And after Carter , thank God for Reagan. We will be saying the same thing after this Obamanation with another Reagan.
Nah, he’s not that clever.
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Whether he is or not he ...
1) out played Hillary
2) out played McCain
... we should stop characterizing him as stupid.
I will pray for him.
Obama’s history and reputation as The Great Placator will end up haunting his entire administration.
That style only works with small groups of mostly willing associates. Agreeing with everyone everywhere will very quickly make him seem a fool.
But it’s the only style he has.
It is going to be a very long four years. I hope that it is ONLY four years.
Like a 12 year-old. He is sure part of the “Look at ME!” generation.
similar to Obama's "I have a bracelet too!"
Thanks! Will it be Palin/Jindal ya think?
FWIW, I’ve felt it very weird for his grandmother who was essentially his surrogate mother to have passed away 2 days before the election when his location of birth still hasn’t been readily confirmed. Maybe the beginnings of a Friends of Barack (FOB) list.
I do not think his anger is as directed towards whites as it is towards women. One in particular, his mother.
The dumbest President ever, Barack Obama!
Oh no, that was the 2 term Texas governor, the MLB baseball team owner, the only president to have achieved a MBA degree, the president who flew fighter jets in the Texas national guard, the president that successfully kept this nation free from another major terrorist attack for over 7 years.
my bad
And you know the answers the libbies have for all of these great achievements for President Bush?
“His daddy bought it for him!!”
Arrgghh. Puleeze.
And PEO’s resume: 2 things.
Community organizer.
State Senator.
US Senator.
(Yup, I’m channeling Joe “Foot in Mouth” Biden, LOL)
Didn’t the Clintons refuse to attend the funeral of Pat Nixon in 1993?
Lies already.
But not that the MSM reported any of these lies.
I still remember a new yorker who had some doubts but voted anyway for Obama, trusting “that he won’t get too radical on them”.
He gave her the pill and told her when to take it. What more do you want?
Oh my God, that’s funny!
Thanks for the correction.
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