Posted on 12/04/2008 2:10:05 AM PST by Nick Thimmesch
Obama tried to reach across the partisan divide twice yesterday with a phone call to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Florida, our colleague Anne E. Kornblut reports.
And twice, according to her office, she hung up on him.
She "thought it was a hoax," an aide to the congresswoman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
A little while later, chief of staff-designate Rahm Emanuel called the congresswoman back.
"Ileana, I cannot believe that you hung up on the president-elect," Emanuel said, according to the congresswoman's office.
Her response?
"Ros-Lehtinen told Rahm that she didn't believe the call was legitimate and hung up on Emanuel," her statement said.
Maybe he can work on that periodic stutter to go along with that nasty tic?
I hope they make fun of her, like they did Palin, even though Palin suspected a prank call.
She thought it was a joke! Well he IS a joke!
A really BAD JOKE! ! ! ! !
Oops, now the trouble starts. Goons will be dispatched to her residence and if she is not remorseful, well it is off to the nearest reeducation camp....
All they did was criticize Bush and now they realize what he was up against. Spending money on schools and the environment is pretty difficult when you have terrorists trying to eliminate us from the face of the earth.
She probably read about Palin being spoofed.
Interesting reading of the events.
But here is my dumb question of the morning...
What is the proper protocol? My hunch is it wasn’t followed by the instigating party of the calls.
The faux pas is 0bama’s.
Her phone system must not have gotten the latest ‘caller’ id install that automatically displays.. the “ONE” is on the phone.
I heard about this on the radio this morning. They had a great money quote along the lines of I am not going to be punked by some AM station DJ! And then she told O that he was a better impersonator than the guy on SNL. What a hoot!
She knows what O’s call is about.
O is going to tell her that he’s Raul Castro’s new best friend.
If all repubublican politicos did this every time, all the time...
Next time she can determine if it’s really Obama by asking him why he won’t release his birth certificate, then he might hang up on her.
You got that right ... she will be given two choices:
1) re-education camp
2) switch parties
LOL!!! Bullseye!!
0bama isn’t a legitimate President-Elect (despite those fancy-pants podium signs), and will never be a legitimate President. I would say she called a spade... uhhh... recognized the call for what it was.
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