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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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1 posted on 11/07/2008 4:55:15 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

He also apologized. I get the impression that Obama doesn’t like the elderly, even those he is/was related to.


2 posted on 11/07/2008 4:56:26 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for Sarah Palin, her family, Alaska.... and the U.S.A.)
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To: chessplayer

When all of his lowbrow economic ideas fail, we’ll find that Nancy Reagan’s approach will in all probability yield better results than anything that idiot can come up with. Gads, if this was one of the best that Harvard can produce, we’re in a whole lotta trouble. He is such a simpleton.


3 posted on 11/07/2008 4:57:21 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: chessplayer

I don’t think he meant to be malicious. He just can’t function without a teleprompter, and made a very lame attempt at a joke.

We’ve elected a president who is socially awkward without cue cards. That ought to increase our standing in the world. (rolls eyes)


4 posted on 11/07/2008 4:57:27 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Go, Sonics! And take the Mariners with you.)
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To: madison10

Exactly. Old people better beware this man seriously. What happened after white granny died? Why hasn’t he given her a proper burial or service? What a lying POS!


5 posted on 11/07/2008 4:59:50 PM PST by Rapunzel (Never forget Fallujah..S. Helvenston RIP.....Sarah...Sarah...Sarah loves America)
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To: chessplayer

Say what You want, but this just proves that Obama HUSSEIN is a LOW CLASS BASSH*LE! That comment of his was totally classless and GROSS beyond all belief!

NO APOLOGY IS ACCEPTABLE FOR THAT!! and you know he was snickering as he supposedly was “apologizing!”


6 posted on 11/07/2008 5:00:08 PM PST by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN is a Pathetic Puppet of Bill Ayers and Associates!)
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To: SandyInSeattle

“”and made a very lame attempt at a joke””

Has he made any other kind? He IS the joke!


7 posted on 11/07/2008 5:00:11 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: SandyInSeattle

It was Hillary that was channeling Eleanor!


8 posted on 11/07/2008 5:00:56 PM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Have you girded your loins today??????)
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To: Thank You Rush

Good point.


9 posted on 11/07/2008 5:01:23 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Go, Sonics! And take the Mariners with you.)
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To: madison10
Especially of the paler persuassion.
10 posted on 11/07/2008 5:01:28 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: chessplayer

It was Hillary who would have conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt...


11 posted on 11/07/2008 5:01:37 PM PST by Homer1
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To: madison10
He also apologized. I get the impression that Obama doesn’t like the elderly, even those he is/was related to.

Just what DID happen to his Grandmother? Are the ever gonna have a funeral for her?

Or did they just stick her in William Jeffersons freezer til Bambi finishes his victory laps?

12 posted on 11/07/2008 5:01:45 PM PST by digger48
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To: chessplayer

Hey Obama, pick on someone your own _____ (fill in the blank).

Whats next? “Lord of the Flies”?


13 posted on 11/07/2008 5:03:38 PM PST by ChetNavVet (Build It, and they won't come!)
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To: ChetNavVet

“Jiving Miss Daisy”


14 posted on 11/07/2008 5:04:41 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: madison10

The elderly and the infirmed have no place in ‘socialistic society’. They are considered ‘weak’. Just take a look at socialized medicine in the UK. When you go to an ER there, you report to a ‘nurse’....they put you on a list of ‘importance and status’ to whether or not you will be seen quickly. My elderly FIL stayed on a gurney for 8 hours in a hallway before he was seen. WooHoo. Thing to come, folks. Things to come.


15 posted on 11/07/2008 5:06:53 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: chessplayer
George W. Bush raised in a strong American family.

B O came from a grossly dysfunctional environment and was the progeny of godless lefties.

16 posted on 11/07/2008 5:08:16 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Rapunzel

BTW, is Granny laying out in the open somewhere?


17 posted on 11/07/2008 5:09:10 PM PST by exDem from Miami
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To: chessplayer

For all the slickness this guy has been portrayed as having, I think we’ll see our fair share of this guy blowing it big-time by accident.

This was Obama’s way of flipping off the right. He couldn’t grasp Ron and he won’t be respectful to Nancy. Bush would never have done this. So change is in the air after all.

Obama will prove to be a classless jerk, just like Rahmalade.


18 posted on 11/07/2008 5:09:28 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Okay lefties... the problem with wanting something, is that you sometimes get it. Good luck now!)
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To: digger48
Just what DID happen to his Grandmother? Are the ever gonna have a funeral for her?

Good question. No one seems to know.

19 posted on 11/07/2008 5:09:55 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for Sarah Palin, her family, Alaska.... and the U.S.A.)
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To: chessplayer

Maybe he’s taking foot-eating lessons from Plugs.


20 posted on 11/07/2008 5:12:50 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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