God Bless Nancy Reagan
November 7th, 2008We Should All Send her Cards
Nancy Reagan is 87 years old. She lost her husband four years ago, after a long and horrible illness. Last month she fell and broke her pelvis, and she is currently recuperating.
At his first post-election press conference, Barack Obama joked about having consulted every “living” President. And then he joked about how he would not be holding any seances because he didn’t want to get into a “Nancy Reagan thing.”
Is this change? I guess it is. I can’t think of another President who would say a thing like this. Even Jimmy Carter has more class. Suddenly Bill Clinton looks like a statesman.
Americans wanted the favored candidate of the Daily Kos, Amanda Marcotte, and Jeremiah Wright. I guess we got what we asked for.
November 7th, 2008 at 4:59 PM
I’m still hoping that I’m going to wake up and this will have all been a bad dream.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:02 PM
I heard it and I couldn’t believe it. We are going to have lots of those moments when the teleprompter stops I think. I think this cat has started to believe his own press.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:42 PM
at least He didn’t claim to know all in the supernatural realm too (yet). He may still fully settle into His ObaMesiah mantle.
the Left personifies all that they typically accuse the Right of being. it figures to be a long 4 or 8 years.
November 7th, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Classy. He needs to shift gears from obnoxious campaigner to thoughtful statesman more quickly than this.
Billy, I’m with you. Surely this is a bad dream?
November 7th, 2008 at 8:30 PM
Amid all the doom and gloom surrounding this monumental election is the shining hope that this guy will wear out his welcome in record time.
Every time he opens his mouth unscripted, the “uh-uh-uhs” surround accidental truths, or vacuous lies, like dull bookends on a dusty shelf built of somebody else’s rhetoric.
Buyers remorse will age this man faster than any of his predecessors. He just hates not being loved.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:07 PM
President Barak Hussein Obama.
Nothing more needs to be said…
November 7th, 2008 at 10:10 PM
That little gem hit me, too. Of course, he was “channelling” Hillary’s Eleanor Roosevelt whatever probably while standing there. Mixed public bad metaphors are just as annoying as nukular and strategery.
Should be interesting.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Unfortunately his supporters applaud every time he says something snarky. To them, it’s not being impolite, it’s “telling it like it is.” Don’t you know that classy behavior is elitist and racist?
November 7th, 2008 at 10:32 PM
I’m guessing that passes as witty reparte on the far left. gak.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Obama is a mediocre little person. Our first affirmative action president.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:14 AM
“Buyers remorse will age this man faster than any of his predecessors. He just hates not being loved.”
Never happen. The only way it does is if the media turns on him, and he’d have to strangle a baby on live TV before they would even contemplate doing so. Both Obama and the press know that the only reason he is in this position right now is because the press has enabled and coddled him since they got Jack Ryan’s divorce records unsealed, and it would take a mighty act of hubris for ANY reporter or editor to reconsider their gushing support.
November 8th, 2008 at 9:15 AM
I’ve turned off all MSM feeds, for me it’s all right wing, all the time.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:07 AM
God bless Nancy, and I will even pray for BHO to do the “right” thing.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:34 AM
Bad dream? Waking nightmare is more accurate.
I suspect that following the inauguration there will no further apologies for such gaffes. Dear Leader is never wrong, and those with the temerity to say such are obviously a threat to society and must be shown the error of their ways – forcefully.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:53 AM
“Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up again with worn-out tools,”
from IF by Kipling.
That is our challenge now, “if” we are men…
November 8th, 2008 at 12:07 PM
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set……Lin Yutang
November 8th, 2008 at 12:09 PM
It was the press corp in the room with him who laughed at the joke. No one questioned it, they probably didn’t get a chance to anyway. At least he apologized, the press is probably still thinking it is funny. When he says things like that we see the true Obamessiah.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Andy McCarthy at NRO said we’re being too sensitive about BO picking on Nancy, that we didn’t howl when John McCain said something tacky about Chelsea Clinton, and everybody in politics is a grown-up, yada yada.
I don’t know about the John/Chelsea thing, but the dig at Nancy was weird and revealing. It was reaching very far for a cheap dig and the fact that tabloid fodder from 20 years ago (when he was 28!) would be fair game for a laugh is very, very odd. Anyway, the more famous “I see dead people” moment was Hillary’s “I talk to Eleanor Roosevelt” interview.
It’s unseemly for the reasons you state, and for a reason known to many, that Nancy turned to spiritulism and astrology after RR was shot.
November 8th, 2008 at 4:35 PM
I can pray for Nancy Reagan and will do so.
Obama made an insensitive, tasteless joke at the expense of someone else. I think it’s likely that this faux pas is a precursor of comments to come, which will end up sealing Obama’s place in history as another ineffective president such as President Jimmy Carter. While in theory the democrats control Congress I see no indication that they will unite in support of the new Democratic President, and in fact will likely be split between Obama supporters, Hillery Clinton supporters and all others whose collective noses are out of joint because their particular social benefits program isn’t getting the recognition (funding) it deserves. And if Our Marvelous Federal Government continues true to form, Congress will agree on something about the same time as global warming brings about the next ice age. When that happens, whatever idea it is will be scuttled by the House. My only hope is that the economy is self-repairing. Give it enough time and let it alone, and it will repair itself.
The preceding diatribe was heavily edited to remove sarcasm, name calling and snarky comments.
So there.
November 8th, 2008 at 6:54 PM
You kids think you have it bad? I’m sitting here in my beautiful state of MN, watching Norm Coleman’s re-election as senator being stolen under all of our noses. Ballots are being “found” in automobiles; some precincts are claiming that 100 ballots were never “counted” – and – amazingly, they ALL went for our friendly jokester, Mr. “Isn’t Rape a Funny Topic” Al Franken.
If they can’t win fair and square, then they’ll steal it fair and square.
Steve; help! Kos and Wright and the rest may have asked for this. I sure did not!
November 10th, 2008 at 7:16 PM
“[H]e’d have to strangle a baby on live TV before [the media] would even contemplate [turning on Obama].
I’m not so sure his base cares that much about babies. It’ll take a puppy.