Posted on 12/03/2008 6:13:41 AM PST by Shady Ray
Lingle responds to crticism for not meeting with Obama
By KHON News
Governor Linda Lingle was a no show today in Philadelphia when President-elect Barack Obama met with more than 40 of the nation's governors.
Hawaii Democrats are criticizing Lingle, a Republican, for not attending.
This afternoon, Lingle defended her decision.
Governor Lingle says her decision was not politically motivated, rather it had to do with timing.
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But some island Democrats are upset over Lingle's decision, saying it doesn't make sense.
Governors from across the nation convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, for a historic face-to-face meeting with President-elect Barack Obama.
Hawaii's governor was absent.
"She wasn't there, she batted that hand of friendship away today. It's astounding, incomprehensible," said Congressman Neil Abercrombie, (D) Hawaii.
"My actions were not meant to be in any way disrespectful of the President-elect or anyone else," said Gov. Linda Lingle.
Lingle says she made a "practical" decision to skip the meeting.
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During the meeting in Philadelphia, the governors discussed with Obama ways to get the economy back on track, and how to put more Americans back to work.
"The President of the United States has reached out to the state saying tell me what programs and projects you'd like to have, and I'm going to help you implement it. The governor of the state of Hawaii says she's not interested," said Abercrombie.
But Lingle says she doesn't think she missed much by declining the invitation.
"There was nothing substantive that came out of the meeting today. All the brew ha ha was caused by a couple of political types who don't know the election is over here in Hawaii," said Lingle.
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It says at the bottom of the article that Obama’s senior advisor(Jarrett) is going to Hawaii later this month and will meet with Lingle. Makes you wonder why.
I suspect Lingle already holds Obama’s market and didn’t need to be present as a supplicant.
“But I used spell check!” /s
marker, that is.
FDR and Poly-Tiks....
Did they ever bury her? Did they ever have a funeral or memorial service? Is obie planning on doing ANYTHING related to her death?
Maybe it ISN’T over yet, and she’s just alluding to that.
The EC hasn’t met yet, and there is still that question of Constitutional qualifications.
Maybe she just doesn’t want to be confronted about O’s business in Hawaii during his recent visit to legally seal his birth certificate records for all time.
Sanctimonious twit.
She was BUSY!
Why do liberals always think the world revolves around them?
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In fact, Abercrombie is the only member of Congress that knew Obama, Jr. as a child.
Hmmm.... maybe she knows the conditions of his birth?
Kudos to this classy, conservative Lady!
Suspicious minds want to know.
I like Lingle, in effect she challenged a would be god.
Its no coincidence Sarah Palin and Lingle are close friends, I actually know little about the Governor of Hawaii and I have never been there, BUT...
I do live in Wasilla, Alaska and know Sarah, most Alaskans take off out of here for extended vacations to Hawaii, many have a second home there, I don’t but I would be keenly interested in having a winter retreat as our winters in Alaska are very very long and I have no work right now.
I praise Governor Lingle in not allowing herself to be manipulated by the MSM or the President-ineligible.
Thanks for posting this. I wished the Mods would add the keyword ‘birthcertificate’ to this article. I believe that is the only reason Øbama made a big deal out of her not being there.
I am glad Lingle didn’t meet with Øbama. I don’t want her to have an ‘accident’ on the way.
Was I asleep when things were altered so we can’t add keywords?
send your questions to barackobama.com
I presumed cremation but the press failed to ever report on or followup this heartbreaking story
Granny’s death certificate is probably sealed as tight as zerO’s other records. He of the newly developed nervous tic knows what happened. So does his sister also mIA
Cremated like O's mother. He and his sister sent a letter that was read at the public service, and it was reported then that there would be a private service for family around Christmastime.
These people impress me as being emotionally dead.
Scheduling your grandmothers passing ceremony so you can be in Hawaii during the winter and [not] celebrate Christmas???
It's just...macabre.
Obama went to see his “beloved Toot” - insulting but he claims to have done a few blows.
Exactly what I’m thinking. Some action by Obama >caused< Lingle to have to seal the Birth record, and she’s ticked about having to do so me thinks. The action, although more than likely something she was reluctant to do also placed her in a difficult position.
Obama hasn’t been forthright obviously with “We the People”.
That would be understandable, but to unload on her the way that they did and the blast her for not attending the conference appears to me that his little trip to Hawaii didn't take care of what he needed. I just cant imagine why Obama's longtime family friend would accuse her of "batting the hand of friendship away" if they already had the result that they wanted with the vital records?
She seems like a tough person and she could just have easily sealed a file for a pending legal action, thus preventing a "plumber" from switching docs out. Remember, he looked terrible that entire trip... and no, I don't believe for one minute it was granny. Lingle took a bad rap due to WND's story about the leak but I have seen many actions like this to preserve the integrity of a file when it is/will be subject to dispute at a later time.
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