Reagan Insider Refutes Obama Claim of 'Warm Conversation' After Press Conf. Insult

Sunday, November 9, 2008 | Kristinn

[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.

[BlackjackPershing]

Hussein Obama: low-class punk. Can take the boy out of the ghetto but not the ghetto out of the boy.

[BlackjackPershing]

Hussein Obama: low-class punk. Can take the boy out of the ghetto but not the ghetto out of the boy.

[BlackjackPershing]

Anger black woman with a vendetta.

[BlackjackPershing]

You fished-eyed fool.......

[tallyhoe]

What a jerk! Obama is a loser!

[americanophile]

What in inauspicious start for the “post-partisan” One.

[river rat]

It would be amusing, if it weren’t so damned spooky that Obama can get so much wrong, lie so easily, hide his reality and throw all the rest under the bus...

Just a few more of Obama’s boneheaded decisions or acts and this “intelligent, clean, handsome and intelligent” messiah will throw the nation into civil war and/or World War III....

[Girlene]

Does ANYONE have the audio of the Lynn Sweet question?? I can't believe that Sweet asked if he had talked to LIVING Presidents.......IF she did that means it was just so Obama could SMEAR Nancy Reagan.....otherwise it was STUPID of Lynn Sweet to ask about LIVING Presidents....

Great catch. Here's the transcript and lineup of who was at the press conference. Barack Obama's first press conference as president-elect From the transcript:

..."QUESTION: Thank you for asking. Here's my question. I'm wondering what you're doing to get ready. Have you spoke to any living ex-presidents, what books you might be reading?

Everyone wants to know, what kind of dog are you going to buy for your girls? Have you decided on a private or public school for your daughters?

OBAMA: Let -- let me list those off.

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 re-read some of Lincoln's writings, who's always an extraordinary inspiration. "...............

Yes. That is a VERY odd question to ask. Who asks whether you've spoken to any LIVING ex-presidents? Was Lynn Sweet doing some investigative reporting with the Chicago Tribune on Obama before she became part of his entourage on the Big O airplane? Did her tune change quite a bit?

[madameguinot]

He considered it warm because she didn’t call him dumba** like Michelle normally does.

[livius]

Obama was never in the ghetto. He went to expensive private schools in Hawaii and then to an expensive private (very old-style liberal) college in California and then to the Ivies after he had been brought in by his Arab handler.

This is all left-wing lumpen-proletariat wealthy-Chicago-white-boy terrorist talk. The problem with Obambi is that he’s not very bright, he’s a sociopath, and he’s vicious. The problem with the folks behind him is that they’re not stupid, have all their marbles and are about ten magnitudes more vicious than he is.

[kitkat]

***Why this strange fixation upon Presidential “bling” anyway? Who does he have to convince? Is there some sort of fear there? Is there a legitimate challenge to his election forthcoming? ***

It’s his fear of being found out as the fraud he is.

[Semper911]

I heartily hope that Mrs. Reagan herself will put out a statement of her own. How great would it be for BO to get caught in a lie on his first day out.

Mrs. Reagan has too much class to do it, but she also loves her country, so maybe there's a chance.

[Girlene]

The problem with the folks behind him is that they’re not stupid, have all their marbles and are about ten magnitudes more vicious than he is.

I noticed the lineup of "economic advisors" behind him according to Global Research included Penny Pritzker, CEO, Classic Residence by Hyatt.

From Wikipdia, Penny Pritzker

...."Ms. Pritzker has been associated with the Subprime mortgage crisis. She was chairman of the bank for Superior Bank of Chicago

...." Currently she is vice chair of the Chicago Public Education Fund, the successor organization to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge."......... - I believe her family foundation also gave money to the Chicago Annenburg Challenge which was initiated by Bill Ayer's efforts.

Since the spring of 2008, Pritzker has served as Barack Obama's National Finance Chair. On Wednesday July 2, 2008, Ms. Pritzker and her husband hosted a $28,500 per plate fundraiser for Mr. Obama's campaign in Chicago with Warren Buffet and his wife, and Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett.

[livius]

Well, they’re smart - and they’re wildly corrupt. As is Bambikins himself.

[indthkr]

bump

[roaddog727]

Classless, lying scumbag.

Going to an Ivy League school does not automaticaly impart class, as evidenced, yet again, buy the grand high and glorious, Barry Zer-O

[kitkat]

***...the claim by the Obama administration-in-waiting that President-elect Obama had a “warm conversation” with former First Lady Nancy Reagan...***

“warm conversation,” is that code for a heated argument?

[kitkat]

***If you think about it, if Nancy was not warm to him, then Obama is being gracious by saying that she was.

Just my take...*** Aw, c'mon! I suspect it WAS warmn, Possibly VERY warm. Maybe even warm to the point of being HEATED!

[Ann Archy]

Lynn Sweet was setting him up to DISS Nancy Reagan, it seems. Why else ask some an IGNORANT question??

[Girlene]

Lynn Sweet was setting him up to DISS Nancy Reagan, it seems. Why else ask some an IGNORANT question??

DING, DING, DING.

You found the fatal flaw in the whole exchange. Good job. After saying something so crass, O could then have a little interaction with Mrs. Reagan while having his sources say what a WARM conversation it was. What a nice guy. NOT. Nothing is by chance with O. It's up to us to keep finding these setups, expose them, and hope the Rush's, Drudge's, etc. talk about them, etc.