You want we should send Drudge a link to his own site?
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.
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The quote from the Obama camp was sourced. Doesn't mean that it is factual, just that the person who said it had the balls to say they said it.
Unlike the "Unsourced" statements that we seem to be getting more and more of from FOX.
Sheesh.
Beloved Leader will go to another typical white person’s funeral instead.
Bambi’s the King of flippant remarks. I have a feeling there’s going to be plenty of occasions when his sarcastic, off-the-cuff remarks come back to bite him in the a$$.
Our priest today said, among other things — “I saw something in obama’s eyes when he ‘won’ that was NOT of the Lord.”
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Lincoln and I were talking yesterday, and Abe remarked that when he freed the slaves he never took Obama into account. “If I had known then what I know now, that reminds me, Jimmy Polk and I were talking yesterday and . . .”
Lincoln tends to ramble.
Use this to drive a wedge into every Libtard you know Monday morning.
Let the Buyer's Remorse Begin!
I’m surprised he didn’t hold his first press conference at Solider Field with exploding fireworks forming the Official Seal of the Office of the President-Elect over the heads to the weeping masses.
Choke on your salt, noobis minimus reducto ad absurdum.
Looks like Osama screwed up without his trusty teleprompter.
I’ve seen ugly dresses before - and worn a few - but that one takes the cake. Ugh.
It was after little Thad died --- the second child she had lost to illness. Mary went a little crazy after that and I guess you would have to be a pretty hard person to not allow her her grief.
There have been far worse thing happen in the White House than seances.
They will come after Andrea with the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
I wish her well.
I'm guessing he still has tingles up and down his leg. ;~))
Given that there had been an attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life, I hardly can fault Mrs. Reagan for consulting an astrologer.
Mr. Obama consults the likes of William Ayers and Rev. Wright for advice.
Our “First Lady In Regalia for Great Expectancy” (FLIRGE) has Hillary’s fashion sense.
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