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.
you need some sessions at the ministry of love, Winston
Ghetto is bred into to him from the slumming his mother did and from the social attitudes of his wife and his ghetto mentality. He’s a sponge and will absorb anything.
Where are you located? My Pastor is a friend of Andrew Greely!! He asked us to pray for his recovery....I prayed for his soul instead.
I don’t think it’s bred into him, but what he did was adopt it in his constant quest for self-definition. As Sarah Palin said about him at one point, “the Presidency is not a voyage of self discovery...”
I thought it was very weird that his accent - originally a neutral West Coast accent - kept getting “blacker” and more “inner city” in the course of the campaign. This is from a guy who has never lived in the inner city except as a community organizer, went to private schools, spent most of his childhood outside of the US, etc. A true MBB (’Merican Black Boy), as a black friend of mine used to call himself, right? No, not at all. Obama shares nothing but a slight suntan with black Anericans.
OMG! He doesn’t believe in ORIGINAL SIN?? I would complain to his SUPERIORS at his ORDERS.....I have done that to another Priest about how he was spending money like a drunken sailor.....they PULLED him out on the Weds, before Easter!! He was a BAD DUDE!
Um, we’re in Los Angeles.
Something about that woman (Michelle) that is just plain ugly
and scary.
“The Kenyan Clown cannot handle speaking with friendly leaders of allies: Obama, Polish president at odds on call.”
The acting PM of Israel basically called him a wimp already. I would find it all amusing if it wasn’t so scary.
Michael did not. It was Ron, Nancy’s boy.
Then who’s boy is Mickey?
Obama HUSSEIN really is a Disaster and a Dangerous Idiot!
Berlisconi sure called The Kenyan Buffoon correctly! Italians are always very polite and one will note he said nothing of any substance about the Idiot except he was “good looking and nicely TANNED!” That is an ULTIMATE PUTDOWN in Italia!
He and his wife have anger issues towards Americans. She despises whites so much she didn’t even go with him to see the white woman who raised him before she died. Just how cold hearted is that. Nor did his children see her one last time. I thought that was plain heartless and spoke volumes of how he really feels about us white folks.
I think she needs to go to church to learn how to .... never mind, that's a bad Idea.
Its a vicious circle...
Hail the Thug-in-Chief!
“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.”
As did Hillary and Oprah.
“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.”
God help our nation. Kennedy almost got us all nuked the last time we had someone this naive in office...
“warm reception” = Go To Hell
Oh, my gosh, that was hysterical!! :-)
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