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 todays 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.
IIRC, Michael was adopted as a baby by RR and his 1st wife, Jane Wyman(sp?).
You weren’t alone being in error. So was I :)
Willie (William) wasn’t the second son but the third. Robert was the oldest. Edward, the second son, died at age 3 on Feb. 1, 1850. Willie, the third son died as mentioned in the WH. Tad (Thomas) lived to the age of 18. I knew the second oldest child had died before the family went to Washington (for the presidency), but I phrased my remark improperly. I wanted to say Willie was the second oldest child at the time, but misspoke. Sorry.
What is so apparently obvious to me is that I don’t know how much longer we can remain as a united country.
The left and right have such diametrically opposed world views that I don’t know how any single person could bridge the gap.
Nah, he's just pissing on the ashes after the Republicans burnt down the house.
OBAMA has NO CLASS! NO BRAINS! NO COUTH!
The morons who voted for him will have voter’s remorse by the summer, especially when LaLaLand gets vaporized or maybe Miami, or both.
Anyway, if you ever needed any more evidence of Dumbama’s lack of decency, even after all the little adolescent middle-finger pictures, this is it!
I’m beginning to think us as conservatives are too polite to the other side. We are good people and treat people like they should be.
We have to start acting like liberals in 2010 I hate to say it but as of today I became a hockey mom so I’m going to start fighting.
Linda Thomason and actress Markie Post -- are pictured here trashing the bed in the Lincoln bedroom by treating it like a trampoline after the Clinton inauguration in 1993.
So I guess next is Billy Ayers and his homicidal wife.
Palin/Reagan ‘12
Not to be catty but Michelle 0 looks like a hurricane warning flag in that dress.
Making fun of a frail, widowed, broken-hipped, little old lady (87 years old, folks) who has more grace in her withered left pinky than he has in his entire body...WOW, what a GENTLEMAN he is, what a class act, what a tough guy he is, what a man! Damn, poor Vlad Putin must be quaking in fear about dealing with Obama, no need to worry about those missiles that’ll be pointed at Poland, nosiree, Putin’s going to have them removed ASAP, otherwise Obama might make fun of HIS mother.
. . . and the cankles . . .
All JFK tends to talk about is all the “broads” he’s “banged” and this throbbing headache that won’t seem to go away.
I’d switch my communicationsearphone for my ipod headphones . . .
“WHAT? I THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO WATCH HER?”
I have no idea if these people will settle for Democratic marxism and turning the place into Chicago, or if they have more devious plans. But if they bring down the curtain, you can forget about getting them out.
and the Council Of the World Plenipotentiary In Expectancy," (COWPIE) is a hoot!
He’ll still be ‘trying’ to ‘look’ presidential for the next four years....perhaps by the end of his second term (if he makes it look easy like clinton) he’ll have matured past his HS Narcissist phase.
Meet the Obama’s - Boar and sow in silk
The problem here is he'll take America down with him, and with
the approval of his party, while screaming racism at every press conference.
btt
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