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.
I think this is a comparison to Joe the Plumber asking a simple question to which he gave an answer that included sucking his own toes. He really put his foot in his mouth with this one. First news conference and he is insulting an 87 widow of a former president. Really fitting considering his family was “off limits”
The sophistication and polish are a very, very thin veneer over his basic immaturity and narcissism.
It’s just unbelieavable that he would say anything so undiplomatic.
Oh, well, that’s the other people’s problem.......I didn’t vote for him.
But he’s a scoundrel for talking about a presidential spouse in that way. Very unpresidential.
Hey, do we have an Obama watch thread with all the mistakes he makes on it?
You don't have to mean to be malicious when you are naturally malicious. It just comes out. And there will be many more examples in the coming, most corruption administration in the history of America. It is the Chicago way.
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