freepers upset over Nancy Reagan comment....oh noes....

[Windy]

They are losing it over there.

Obama was asked if he spoke with former presidents.... He said that he has but that he didn't hold a seance ala nancy reagan to contact any dead presidents

[QC]

1. Context? n/t

[jesus_of_suburbia]

36. Obama RULES! Freepers love the Reagans but hate the supernatural... their heads will EXPLODE!

[closeupready]

2. What Nancy Reagan comment?

??

[QC]

3. I loathe these cryptic posts.

OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!!! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT SOMEBODY SAID ABOUT SOMEBODY ON SOME PROGRAM ON SOME CHANNEL!!! OMG!!!!!!!

[wryter2000]

5. I think President Obama mentioned la Reagan

Something about he wasn't using psychics as Nancy had.

I'm going to say that again...President Obama. Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

[jpak]

10. He said something about a "Nancy Reagan Seance" - snap!

:rofl:

[wryter2000]

16. How disrespectful

No one sent him the memo about Saints Reagan, obviously. Now, he'll have to do 10 Hail Nancy's and 20 Our Ronald's

[jpak]

28. Maybe he can borrow a hairshirt from FR

:evilgrin:

[NOLALady]

6. Something about a seance

to communicate with RR.

Much ado about nothing.

[Matariki]

45. Press conference this afternoon

question about whether Obama had spoken to any past presidents. He made a joke about only speaking to Presidents that were living, and made a quip about not doing seances, ala Nancy Reagan, to speak with the dead ones.

And you have to be a damned psychic around this place to follow these threads making vague TV references. People seem to assume everyone is watching the same channel at the same time they are. :eyes:

[falcon97]

4. The question was poorly worded

by Lynn Sweet. "Have you spoken with any living presidents..." about the transition. Almost set him up for a Nancy Reagan comment.

[falcon97]

15. IT was a question during Obama's

presser that just ended. Lynn Sweet of one of the Chicago papers asked if Obama has spoken to any "living presidents" about his transition. Obama made reference to Nancy Reagan in saying that he would not be communicating with any dead presidents.

[man4allcats]

42. Ha ha!

I wish he had winked and added "although I suppose I could try to do so by using some of that ol' black magic!" Picture it. Neocon heads would have started exploding! I love this guy. It is so great to now have a highly educated, blazingly smart and very cool President. Brains and class are coming to the White House. What a concept!

[Sal Minella]

7. If you have time, could you give us some tiny clue as to what you're talking about?

a tiny link? a tiny quote? something?

[AlCzervik]

8. maybe they could get out the Ouija board and talk with St. Ronnie about it, not as cool

as a seance no doubt.

Freepers, get a life.

[nolabels]

17. The wing-nuts are definitely chomping at the bit

I really wish they could have figured out a way for them attend their re-education camps in another country :crazy:

[AlCzervik]

23. Wingnuts should be working on trying to make their party less awful and not this stuff.

and that's why they'll keep on losing--good.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. I think St Ronnie is too busy stoking the fire down there to talk...

right now.

[Generic Other]

57. He would say Mommy said Obama reminded her of me!

I heard she did say that.

[nancyr]

9. Obama's press conference...

he made a little joke about Nancy Reagan channeling....nothing of any importance whatsoever. Everybody needs to get a grip and lighten up.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

11. In the press conference Obama was asked if he had talked to any former Presidents for advice.

He answered , yes he had spoken to all the living former Presidents. Meaning,I think that he hadn't missed anyone because of course of course a President would have to be living for him to talk to him.

The he added, Yeah, I wasn't doing any Nancy Reagan stuff - no seances or anything like that.

There. Now you have the context.

[cardFan123]

20. why mention Nancy??

But why did he have to mention Nancy Reagan? The joke about not have seances and stuff like that works without mentioned Reagan. So why take a cheap shot? he has said he wants to reach across the isle, and I think that will be good. But he has to avoid these little pitfalls, because the media will catch on to all the little stupid things like this and run with them. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it, but we will now get many hours of the 24/7 media analyzing this. If he can avoid the little things like this I think he will be much more effective.

[monmouth]

33. Oh for FS, get a grip, learn to lighten up a little. It was a friggin joke..n/t

[jesus_of_suburbia]

35. It was a Freeper

[jesus_of_suburbia]

34. Please go back to FreeRepublic or your local Southern Baptist Church.

Surely you have work to do over the next 4 years.

[cardFan123]

38. ...

ok, so you think making a joke like this is a smart move on his part?

Let say McCain had won, and made a Hillary joke in his first press conference, how would that go over?

But ok, I need to go back to Southern Baptist Church. uh, I'm from NJ. What a Southern baptist church has to do with this makes no sense to me.

And I didn't know that one had to agree with everybody 100% of the time to be part of this.

[Dervill Crow]

50. It would have gone right over their heads if he hadn't mentioned the name.

They like their thinking concrete and done for them.

:eyes:

Dare I say, "Duh"?

It wasn't a cheap shot, it was clever, as opposed to the ham-handed, knuckle-dragging so-called humor of soon-to-be ex-pResident Bush.

[Dervill Crow]

54. That would be reaching across the AISLE.

Fuckrying out loud. Go home. Now. Please. Unless this is a joke and you're really not a freeper.

It wasn't a stupid thing, it was a joke, and a clever one at that. He was also self-deprecating. We haven't seen that in a president since President Carter, and I am loving it.

[LeftinOH]

12. apparently a reference to Nancy's fondness for astrological charts

while she was 1st lady.. but I wasn't aware about any spirit conjuring.

[malaise]

13. Well she did that seance business

She made the crazy psychics popular.

Tell the Freepers to 'Call Mi' like Miss Cleo and I'll arrange a rapture like post world for them. :rofl:

[backscatter712]

14. Ah, feeding time.

The tears of anguish coming from freepers do give me that extra kick in my step. :evilgrin:

[Windy]

19. My thoughts exactly... plus they are miffed as no questions came from Faux news.... n/t

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

21. I'm sure this will be blown wildly out of proportion and the frothing mouths

on Fox and the intertubes will gnash and wail at the affront to Mrs. Saint Ron who just suffered some medical problems.There will be demands for apologies and for him to step down immediately. And Obama just had his first lesson in don't make little jokes that involve living Right Wing icons and I'm sure that's the end of any humor for the next 4 years.

[peace frog]

26. You got that right

and I for one will enjoy every moment of their apoplexy. How sweet it is.

[Journeyman]

22. Eh, the first of many tantrums, I am sure. . .

I never get incensed with these sorts of lame jokes from politicians, of whatever stripe, especially when it comes during a press conference and the interviewee is obviously trying to connect with the press on an informal level, or make for a light moment. Sometimes jokes fall flat. Sometimes a legitimate comment seems untoward or isn't phrased in the best of manners. Most times, I just laugh at the commentator and move on. Even when it's a certifiable idiot like George W.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

27. I'm just relieved to get the first "gaffe" out there early and be done with it.

I have a friend who says when you get a brand new car, go get a sledge hammer and give it a good ding in the door panel right away. You know it's gonna happen eventually and now you don't have all the anxiety and dread waiting for it.

[Dervill Crow]

51. That was a gaffe?

Wow. I thought it was pretty good, myself.

[lelgt60]

24. according to paranormal.about.com...

The Reagans and the Astrologer

Many regard the presidency of Ronald Reagan as one of the strongest of the 20th century. Yet it wasn't widely circulated until after he left office that the most powerful man on Earth and his influential wife, sought the advice of an astrologer on many occasions - even on matters of world importance.

Joan Quigley became Nancy Reagan's astrologer after the two met on "The Merv Griffin Show" in the 1970s and reportedly provided astrological advice during Reagan's bid for the Republican nomination in 1976. After reaching the White House, the Reagans sought Quigley's horoscope readings even more. Some of her alleged influences include:
She devised elaborate horoscope charts that showed dates and times - down to the last minute - that were both good and bad for the president. Nancy would provide Quigley with the president's itinerary, she would calculate the times most advantageous for success, and then Nancy would pass along the scheduling requirements to the White House staff.

She contributed to the timing of international summits, presidential announcements and even the flight schedule of Air Force One.
Shortly after Reagan was shot by John Wayne Hinckley, Nancy learned through Merv Griffin that Quigley had told him that Reagan's chart showed that this would be a bad day for him. She could have warned him that his life was in danger. Of course, this was after the fact of the shooting.
Nancy Reagan had special private phone lines installed in the White House and at Camp David expressly for talking to Quigley.
"I was the Teflon in what came to be known as the Teflon presidency," Quigley later wrote, taking credit for the timing of his actions that would deflect criticism.

[nolabels]

48. Reality and what we perceive as reality are two different things

We only explain things we cannot understand or pinpoint there causes to as magic. The rain gods of the great plains American Indians would probably give a hands down on how that is :shrug:


P.S. none the less i am very superstitious for quite a few things that never could seem to get explained :scared:

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. Who gives a shit? Let them froth...they're powerless.

:rofl:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

31. Right! I hope in the next presser he says Barbara Bush wears combat boots! nt.

[greyseal5]

39. But that would be the truth! nt

[get the red out]

29. How dare he

tell a joke about God's wife! That pretty much sums up the Freepers. Sad lot that they are.

[TexasObserver]

30. I knew there would be GOP temporal veins popping on that!

Obama knows how to make the seemingly innocuous comment that veils a sharper jab.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

32. THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING THAT BARACK OBAMA HAS EVER SAID THAT WAS BITCHY. I LOVE IT!

DAMN DAMN DAMN.



I LOVE HIM.





I'm not kidding. Wow. Just wow.


THOSE STUPID FREEPERS WORSHIP THE REAGANS.


Let him bring those fuckers down one comment at a time.



I AM SO PROUD OF HIM.


ALL THESE IDIOT VOTERS OF PALIN WHO SUPPORTED REAGAN ARE RELIGIOUS NUTS WHO HATE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE SUPERNATURAL.




LET'S REMIND THEM OF NANCY'S """"""WITCHCRAFT"""""""""" , lol!




Obama '12

[Poll_Blind]

56. Oh I hear ya, Jesus! And it won't be the last thing, either!

PB

[City Lights]

37. Whatev...he called himself a mutt, too.

Freakers need to get a sense of humor.

[greyseal5]

40. I can't wait until humor returns to this country. nt

[InNeedOfUserName]

41. I don't think he wants Michele picked on...this was a mistake...But..

..it was funny!

[Blue Diadem]

43. I think he said it to make their heads explode.

Not really, but from what I picked up about his sense of humor, I'm really going to enjoy his Presidency!

Let's see, he compared himself to a mutt, referenced the reporter with the injured arm as the most serious injury at Grand Park and although I think he threw in the Nancy Reagan seance thing since he said he'd spoken to all those former Presidents who were alive; it was the perfect way to make it funny and explode some freeper heads at the same time.

[and-justice-for-all]

44. Whay are they getting mad? It is true..nt

[Stinky The Clown]

46. I heard that. He clearly regretted it before he finished saying it.

I would not be surprised to hear some some of retraction.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

47. He should just apologize right now, get it over with fast.

Rip that bowl of umbrage right out of their hands.

I really don't want to hear about this for the next 3 days.

[Strelnikov_]

60. 3 days?

You are truly an optimist.

[backscatter712]

49. Never, ever apologize for trash talk.

Even if it's over the line, Do. Not. Apologize.

[Dervill Crow]

52. It just calls more attention to it.. And why was it trash talking, anyway?

Honestly, if anyone is upset over it they should just unknot their own knickers. Obama speaks the truth; they better get used to it.

[Dervill Crow]

53. What's to retract?

Nancy talked to dead presidents. He doesn't.

Should he say he DOES talk to dead presidents? Or that she didn't?

:shrug: I'm puzzled.

[Poll_Blind]

55. They should be- her dealings in the OCCULT are legendary!

PB

[Poll_Blind]

58. Nancy Reagan's Uncontrollable Fixation on the Occult (1989)- Video up in DU Videos right now, LOL!

Nancy Reagan's Uncontrollable Fixation on the Occult (1989)

  That crazy bitch was mad into black magic!

PB

:rofl:

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

59. He actually was poking fun at himself, too

He used the line about Nancy Reagan after realizing he'd said that he had conversations with "all living" ex-presidents.