Saturday, November 08, 2008
Mr. Articulate
Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, it was often said of B. Hussein Obama that he came off as more articulate when using a Telepromter than when speaking off the cuff. Well, ol' B. Hussein - excuse me, President-elect B. Hussein - held his first post-election news conference yesterday, and it didn't take long Mr. Articulate to make a complete ass out of himself.
Answering reporters' questions in Chicago, Obama said he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepares to take office in January. Then he smiled and added, "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances."
No one has ever suggested that Nancy Reagan ever participated in a seance. What was suggested, by Donald Regan in a bitter tell-all after he was fired, was that Mrs. Reagan consulted an astrologer to help set her husband's schedule. Upon hearing about Regan's remarks, President Reagan broke with his policy of not commenting on books by former White House staffers and stated for the record that no "policy or decision in my mind has ever been influenced by astrology.
A First Lady whose name was associated with conversations with the dead was Hillary Rodham (Clinton). In his 1997 book The Choice, Bob Woodward described how Rodham (Clinton) regularly met with a spiritual adviser who helped her engage in imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt. Newsweek magazine characterized the meetings as "seances," a term that sent White House officials into a tizzy.
B. Hussein did have enough class to call Mrs. Reagan and apologize for his "careless" remark. However, the fact that Obama uncorked such a stupid, shipdit comment -- during his first freakin' press conference -- makes me fearful that he and his natural hair-challenged co-pilot, Joe Biden, are gonna be apologizing for a lot of stupid, shipdit remarks, and careless policy lurches, over the next - Oh, God - four years.
The 2010 congressional elections can't come soon enough ...
Answering reporters' questions in Chicago, Obama said he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepares to take office in January. Then he smiled and added, "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances."
No one has ever suggested that Nancy Reagan ever participated in a seance. What was suggested, by Donald Regan in a bitter tell-all after he was fired, was that Mrs. Reagan consulted an astrologer to help set her husband's schedule. Upon hearing about Regan's remarks, President Reagan broke with his policy of not commenting on books by former White House staffers and stated for the record that no "policy or decision in my mind has ever been influenced by astrology.
A First Lady whose name was associated with conversations with the dead was Hillary Rodham (Clinton). In his 1997 book The Choice, Bob Woodward described how Rodham (Clinton) regularly met with a spiritual adviser who helped her engage in imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt. Newsweek magazine characterized the meetings as "seances," a term that sent White House officials into a tizzy.
B. Hussein did have enough class to call Mrs. Reagan and apologize for his "careless" remark. However, the fact that Obama uncorked such a stupid, shipdit comment -- during his first freakin' press conference -- makes me fearful that he and his natural hair-challenged co-pilot, Joe Biden, are gonna be apologizing for a lot of stupid, shipdit remarks, and careless policy lurches, over the next - Oh, God - four years.
The 2010 congressional elections can't come soon enough ...
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Saturday, November 08, 2008 
