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Reagan Insider Refutes Obama Claim of 'Warm Conversation' After Press Conf. Insult
Sunday, November 9, 2008 | Kristinn

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: badcomedian; badrepresentive; bho; bho2008; creep; destroyingtheoffice; disrespect; hussein; jerk; poormanors; rats; rottentomatoes; stupidremark; uncooth; weareintrouble
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To: mojito

>>>How much more damage can Obama do before he’s even inaugurated?<<<

LOTS!


121 posted on 11/09/2008 10:22:08 AM PST by Munz (Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
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To: Drumbo

Where is this on Drudge? I don’t see it, Drumbo.


122 posted on 11/09/2008 10:23:33 AM PST by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: kristinn
0bama is classless. Look at him giving the finger to Hillary! at a Primary Debate (youtube). Then look at him giving the finger to McCain while ‘praising’ him the day before the election (also at youtube). Hypnotized people have put an immature narcissist into the White House. He DOES think he is too awesome. That's why the comment didn't get too much laughter at that Archdiocese dinner in New York a few weeks ago.
123 posted on 11/09/2008 10:24:13 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: kristinn

Nancy has no hard feelings because she remembers that her husband got along well with chimps of MoBama's sort.

124 posted on 11/09/2008 10:24:51 AM PST by DogBarkTree (I blame McCain for Palin's loss)
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To: AndyJackson

“Reagan WAS presidential.”

Another nailhead has been hit.


125 posted on 11/09/2008 10:24:58 AM PST by thesetruths
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To: Munz
How much more damage can Obama do before he’s even inaugurated?

Wait a second here! Are you saying he is not president yet? I have seen the presser with the official title on the podium. I know he has talked to the president of poland and I heard he is already fixing our economy as we speak!
126 posted on 11/09/2008 10:25:05 AM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

We are witnessing the “Fake it ‘til you make it” Presidency.


127 posted on 11/09/2008 10:28:21 AM PST by thesetruths
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To: Ditto
"It was after little Thad died --- the second child she had lost to illness. "

It was Willie Lincoln, not Tad. Willie died in the White House in February 1862, in fact, in the same bed that's in the Lincoln Bedroom now. Mary Lincoln had bought the bed for her husband, but he never slept in it. Tad Lincoln, whose given name was Thomas, died in Chicago at the age of 18 (1871). Robert Todd Lincoln, the oldest, was the only child of the Lincoln's four sons who lived to be an old man. Their second son Edward died in 1850.

128 posted on 11/09/2008 10:29:37 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: kristinn
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."

Well, at least she did that!


129 posted on 11/09/2008 10:30:52 AM PST by uglybiker (1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 2 g3t l41d)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

>>Wait a second here! Are you saying he is not president yet?<<

Nope he’s not the president yet, just the chosen one, the messiah, the anointed one .... you know

king s&it of turd island.


130 posted on 11/09/2008 10:31:25 AM PST by Munz (Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

What I gleaned from this is that he didn’t intend to make the joke about Nancy Reagan, but came up with it to cover the fact that he actually added “living” in serious response. It was only after he said it that he realized how stupid it was and then tried to cover it with the referral to seances.

This guy is going to provide so much material. Take away the script and teleprompter and Obama and Biden will provide fodder for the comedians til the cows come home.

Can you imagine if Bush or Palin had done this?


131 posted on 11/09/2008 10:31:29 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: PalmettoMason
Thank you so much for your kind explanation.
132 posted on 11/09/2008 10:31:32 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: hflynn
Obama must have brought a flame thrower to the conversation.

Hey! You've seen the new 0bamunist Administration guidelines for "Pesky Babies that Just Won't Die In A Regular Abortion Procedure"?

Flamethrowers, who woulda thunk it?
133 posted on 11/09/2008 10:31:51 AM PST by mkjessup (Over 57 million *real* Americans said "NO EFFIN WAY" to Comrade 0bama & the 0bamunist Party.)
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To: uglybiker

I’ve always wondered if that is real or photoshopped.


134 posted on 11/09/2008 10:33:26 AM PST by thesetruths
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To: RegulatorCountry
"Barack Obama is not the President-elect, and cannot be the President-elect until the electoral college meets and casts their electoral votes"

LOL. Why surely you don't expect the former President of the Harvard Law Review and a 12-year lecturer at U. of Chicago Law School to actually know anything about the US Constitution?

Seriously what were you thinking? :^)

p.s. Imagine if Bush or McCain or any Republican were blundering about in these ways...... we'd never hear the end of it in the media, but the Obamanation gets a free pass, always.

135 posted on 11/09/2008 10:34:00 AM PST by Enchante (Sarah Palin is Worth Infinitely More to Us than Any Vicious RINO Anonymous Staffers)
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To: ottbmare

He spent his childhood trying to find his identity - his mother shipped him off, his father abandoned him, raised by white grandparents but he is black. He decided to hate - well at least distrust - white people.... from what I can tell.


136 posted on 11/09/2008 10:34:33 AM PST by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: Earthdweller

Man oh man did you get that one wrong

Swing and a miss for you there


137 posted on 11/09/2008 10:35:02 AM PST by ThreePuttinDude (-)....Election 2008, the year of the Affirmative Action President....(-)
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To: Miss Behave

http://www.drudgereport.com/
Currently the six story down in the center column. “Obama apologizes to Nancy Reagan for ‘seance’ crack...”
It links to http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081108183359.ficynmus&show_article=1


138 posted on 11/09/2008 10:35:13 AM PST by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: FreeAtlanta

No, He has nothing to gain from dead granny anymore.

She probably was cremated along with his BC.

Notice the stupid MSM is too long lost and biased to ask about it.


139 posted on 11/09/2008 10:36:06 AM PST by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: Aria

If only The One had come out white instead of black!


140 posted on 11/09/2008 10:36:29 AM PST by Boardwalk
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