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Obama's speech this week?


boyohboyohboy wrote: I missed his first speech this week he gave..but heard a few off hand remarks on the cnn and hnn about something he said to nancy regan, can someone update me?

luvmykids replied: I missed it too, I saw on msn a little blurb about him apologizing to her but I don't know the backstory.

boyohboyohboy replied:
thats about all I saw also..wasnt she just in the hosp recently?

luvmykids replied: Here is a link, it doesn't sound like it was too big a deal. She recently broke her pelvis.

boyohboyohboy replied:
I wonder then why he felt the need to call her and apologize and wonder why the media is making it such a big deal?
its all over our newspaper today.

dh said that she has been known to say that she prays alot and speaks to her husband thru prayer and feels his presence..maybe he was making fun of that?

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I think he just meant to clarify that after he said that he'd spoken to all former presidents, that he meant the ones that are living, before anyone questions that he may have spoken to dead ones as well. Taken completely out of proportion.. and the fact that he apologized to Nancy Reagan showed class, showed that he didn't mean what he said to poke fun at her, but rather as a clarification of his comment. The media has to make a living too.

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msoulz replied:
BINGO! rolleyes.gif

jcc64 replied: I heard the press conference word for word. A reporter asked if he had spoken to any former presidents in preparation for his new role, and he responded by saying that he had spoken to all of the living ones, had read some of the memoirs of the dead ones (specifically Lincoln), but that he wasn't going to "do a Nancy Reagan", in reference to her well-publicized penchant for consulting astrologers and communing with the dead. It was a joke, albeit a goofy one, and he later called to apologize to her, lest she had taken offense. Apparently, she hadn't, and they had a nice conversation, according to press reports.

mammag replied: Here is the video of exactly what he said.

Classy

cameragirl21 replied: I have to say, as someone who does believe in astrology and does commune with the dead, I have since I was a kid (not by choice), I don't find what Obama said the least bit offensive.
I agree he should have apologized to Mrs. Reagan but not so much (imo) because he poked fun at her beliefs but rather so as not to show any perceived disrespect to Ronald Reagan and the tragic disease that killed him.
As for those of us who won't travel without our tarot cards, check to see if Mercury is in retrograde before taking on new projects and see dead people among us (again, not by choice) we are fully aware that some people will think we are wacko.gif . That's just life and I'm sure Nancy Reagan was more amused than anything else, if she's a true channeler and believer in these things, anyway.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I still stand by what I said even after having watched the video again.. that he didnt mean to poke fun at her, but rather as a clarification of his comment. to get it across that although it isn't his thing. It was well publicized that she did it, it's not like he was bashing her for doing it, but rather making it clear that he wasn't.

moped replied:
Yep thats what I got from it as well!


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