I'm still LOL at Obama's "seance" crack

[redstate_democrat]

:rofl: I'm glad he called her and apologized, but I'm sorry, that was funny as hell.

[TK421]

1. WTF is this all about?

What are you talking about here?

[redstate_democrat]

2. Where have you been for the last 24 hours?

Did you not know Obama made a joke at his press conference about not doing a Nancy Reagan and holding a seance?

[TK421]

5. I've been at my job...thanks...not here, apparently!

SORRY! some of us don't spend 24 hours on this fucking site!

[redstate_democrat]

8. It was Obama's first televised press conference

:shrug:

If you had bothered to turn on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, or pick up a newspaper, you would have known about it. Maybe you should relax a little bit.

And please don't start cussing at me like you have lost your fucking mind. I don't play that at all.

[TK421]

15. Excuse me, but in that post of yours you stated "Where have I been in the last 24

hours"? Now, you are telling me it was his first televised press conference? I'm looking for something he SAID in the last 24 hours that perhaps I missed.....

You see where the confusion is here? If you had referred to THAT in the first place, then there would not be any misunderstanding!

[redstate_democrat]

17. Oh I see.

I know context in the obvious is important for some folks, but I didn't think I would need to say "first press conference since winning the election".

You need to seek help. You just got pissed off for no apparent reason at all.

[TK421]

19. I got pissed off at a stupid post...that is all...don't you get it?

I could go all night...back and forth with you but that would just be a WASTE OF TIME

Here is this handy feature that I rarely use!!! TA-TA!!!!

[Curtland1015]

4. Obama said he spoke to all past Presidents, then amended his statement to all LIVING past presidents

...joking that he didn't hold a seance like Nancy Reagan.

It was a cute joke. I don't get the faux outrage at all. It's not like she didn't consult psychics.

[TK421]

11. Thanks for a POLITE response, much unlike response #2 who seems to think that

I should be at my computer or watching T.V 24/7 while I'm pulling double shifts at my job!

Again..thanks for the POLITE explanation

Je-sus CHRIST the ignorant douchebags on this fucking internet sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!!

[redstate_democrat]

14. First of all, you responded with "WTF!" as if you DESERVED a civil response from me

At least I didn't start cussing at you like a fucking moron out of nowhere. Maybe you should relax a little bit. These Internets aren't that series.

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[redstate_democrat]

18. lol

:rofl:

[No Elephants]

29. Did she? I know she had an astrologer. That is different from a psychic, though. And both are

different from those who conduct seances. Although, if someone said it, I would totally beclieve that Nancy went looking for Ron after he passed. I just have not heard anyone say it.

[Overseas]

3. I thought it was funny too.

[katandmoon]

6. I didn't think it was funny at all. She's a widow. It was tasteless and insensitive,

Even though I know that wasn't Obama's intent. But I absolutely cringed when I heard him say it and I knew he would be called on it.

I'm very glad he called Mrs. Reagan to apologize.

[Curtland1015]

9. What is the tastelessness of it?

Because the implication could be made that he was mocking her because her husband was a president?

The joke was obviously just about her past use of "the OCCULT!!!"... not that her husband was dead.

Not that I'm saying that's what you think. I'm just trying to understand why people think it's such a bad joke.

[redstate_democrat]

10. Wow.

[ecstatic]

26. the good news is he had the foresight to self correct, right there on the scene

Shows that even though he is human and makes mistakes, he has the ability to self correct.

Personally, I didn't have a problem with his statement.

[busybl]

27. hello

Nancy never started her day without the phone call from her psychic in California.

[No Elephants]

31. I think it was her astrologer, not a psychic. And neither holds seances.

[boppers]

28. She's the widow...

...Of a man who used our tax dollars to rape and kill political opponents.

...Who based our country's future on something so unscientific that it makes faith-healers look like mathematicians.

Does she deserve a little less scorn, a little less limelight, cast upon her? Maybe.

Thousands of dead Americans murdered by her husband might disagree with you, though.

[HopeFor2006]

7. Why apologize?

There was truth in his statement.

[Beacool]

23. No, there wasn't.

Nancy is my least favorite first lady, but she never held seances. She consulted with astrologers (Jeanne Dixon was her favorite), to find out which days were more propitious to hold certain events.

[gauguin57]

12. I actually winced when he said it ... cuz seances and astrology are two different things.

I knew the wingers would be freakin' ... especially since the reference was inaccurate.

I thought Nancy's astrology stuff was wacky ... it isn't my thing, though I know people who guide their lives via astrology.

But seances have nothing to do with astrology ... so, he's right to apologize. Nancy was checking Ronnie's chart, not trying to contact his dead dad with a Ouija board.

[Blue Diadem]

13. I laughed too.

I'm glad he apologized to her and had no doubt that he would.

[votetastic]

20. It gave a whole new meaning to Obama's quote from his election night speech

"so let us summon a new spirit.." :)

[No Elephants]

30. LOL. Good one!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

21. Actually, he simply cited the wrong Republican First Lady

Mary Todd Lincoln held seances during her husband's term in office, hoping to hear from her dead children and relatives who were killed in the fighting during the Civil War. Lincoln is said to have taken part in order to help his wife deal with her grief over the death of Willie, their son.

[pansypoo53219]

22. i liked when he basically told candy fatass crawley

to STFU and go away.

[TheDonkey]

24. i thought it was very funny.

[SarahB]

25. I'm not surprised he apologized and I agree with it.

He's too much of a class act to do something at the expense of a widow no matter how lousy a president Reagan was.

[No Elephants]

32. I donated more than the legal limit to Obama since December. But, I am not in idolatry. Every now

and again, he says something odd for no good reason. Exhaustion probably. And being human. I am not going to pretend like the Reagan remark was important, but there was no reason to make it and it would have been better if he had not. But, I don't think it's worth air time, FFS.

The only important issue in this? Are voters and the media EVER going to focus on the important things again, or are we all just going to keep treating people who have our lives in their hands as though they are all Brittany Spears?