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Obama Uses Press Conf To Mock 87-Yr. Old Widow (video)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/11/07/obama-uses-press-conf-mock-85-yr-old-widow ^

Posted on 11/07/2008 4:55:15 PM PST by chessplayer

Say what you will about President George W. Bush, but I don't recall him ever mocking an elderly widow in his pronouncements. But Barack Obama couldn't get through his first press conference as president-elect without doing just that.

Answering a question from Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times as to the presidents he has consulted during the transition, Obama took a gratuitous jab at Nancy Reagan, who was recently released from the hospital after breaking her pelvis in a fall.

BARACK OBAMA: 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 séances.


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KEYWORDS: bho2008; nancyreagan; obamatransitionfile; stupidmuslim
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To: NOBAMA in 08

What he said was mild compared to what Freepers called her when she endorsed McCain.


21 posted on 11/07/2008 5:13:05 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP! It's gonna be a BIG one.)
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To: chessplayer

The buffoonery begins. How many uhhhhs did he say ?


22 posted on 11/07/2008 5:17:53 PM PST by RobinMasters
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To: madison10

He apologized. Let’s move on.

(Just like we moved on after Trent Lott made that joke about Strom Thurmond.)


23 posted on 11/07/2008 5:18:03 PM PST by randita (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: chessplayer

This sounds like something that he and Rahm probably had a good laugh about when they planned his jokes for the press conference. I don’t recall such sophmoric A-holes inhabiting the White House before. This is the sort of thing that the teens and arrested development DNC fundamentalists that watch the Jon Stewart Show would find funny - picking on an ailing widow. High Fives all around back at Rahm’s War Room! such cool guys.


24 posted on 11/07/2008 5:20:10 PM PST by purplelobster
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To: SandyInSeattle
I don’t think he meant to be malicious.

Oh, he meant to be malicious. He just hasn't learned that he can't be a prick publicly outside of his former corrupt context.

25 posted on 11/07/2008 5:21:53 PM PST by Stentor (b. July 4, 1776 - d. January 20, 2009 sorely missed.)
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To: RobinMasters
How many uhhhhs did he say ?

Listen to Rush on Monday. He'll have all the uhs excerpted out and their duration will run several minutes.

Honestly, I felt like I was living the fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes". It was painful to watch yet none of the pundits or reporters acknowledged anything amiss. I kept thinking someone would say, "the emperor has no clothes", but no one did.

26 posted on 11/07/2008 5:22:54 PM PST by randita (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: chessplayer

What an asshole.


27 posted on 11/07/2008 5:28:08 PM PST by saganite (I for one welcome our new Socialist masters /s/)
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To: chessplayer

I’m kinda glad he doesn’t seem to have much of a brain.

If he DID, it would make him REALLY dangerous.


28 posted on 11/07/2008 5:29:07 PM PST by Catmom
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To: chessplayer

And since when does a President elect hold a Media Press Conference on all the major networks?? He’s detestable.


29 posted on 11/07/2008 5:30:09 PM PST by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
What he said was mild compared to what Freepers called her when she endorsed McCain.

He is now the President-elect, who, when speaking at a press conference, should not say negative things about a President's widow.

30 posted on 11/07/2008 5:30:38 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie
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To: chessplayer

This man is one of the worst public speakers to come along in ages (sans the teleprompter). We’ll all be longing for the Bush speak soon.


31 posted on 11/07/2008 5:30:43 PM PST by Reagan69 (No Representation without Taxation !)
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To: SandyInSeattle
We’ve elected a president who is socially awkward without cue cards.

Kindly exclude me from we.

32 posted on 11/07/2008 5:32:25 PM PST by Ben Chad
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To: randita

There should be a count -EVERY SPEECH- a count of the ummm, uuh,s


33 posted on 11/07/2008 5:33:21 PM PST by Reagan69 (No Representation without Taxation !)
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To: Ben Chad

That would be the royal “we”.


34 posted on 11/07/2008 5:33:46 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Go, Sonics! And take the Mariners with you.)
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To: Reagan69

Some radio station did count the uhs/ums. The total was posted in the thread about the Press Conference. I don’t recall what it was.


35 posted on 11/07/2008 5:36:50 PM PST by randita (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: RobinMasters

In the 36 second clip at the link he said “UH..” about (I only watched once and counted) EIGHT times.


36 posted on 11/07/2008 5:39:07 PM PST by wolficatZ (Free to good home: Viking Kitty. Not declawed .Good with children. Bites.)
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To: Stentor
Oh he meant to be malicious alright. He will spend the next 4 years trying to convert the word “Bush” into something Satanic (either the first or second). Reagan he will go after by means of an 87 year old widow.
37 posted on 11/07/2008 5:39:08 PM PST by nomorelurker
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To: randita
It was painful to watch yet none of the pundits or reporters acknowledged anything amiss. I kept thinking someone would say, "the emperor has no clothes", but no one did.

Maybe they inwardly wondering just what the hell they created
38 posted on 11/07/2008 5:57:08 PM PST by uncbob
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To: madison10

Lynn Sweet was executed this afternoon by firing squad against the Wrigley Building.


39 posted on 11/07/2008 6:29:11 PM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: Doc Savage
Lynn Sweet was executed this afternoon by firing squad against the Wrigley Building.

I'm not exactly sure to what you are referring. Care to elaborate?

40 posted on 11/07/2008 6:34:10 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for the U.S.A. and her future.)
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