cnn.com - 11/7/2008
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan is shown at an event in the nation's capital in September.
politico.com - 11/8/2008
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politico.com —
President-elect Barack Obama called Nancy Reagan this afternoon
to apologize for a joke about her having heald...
"séances" in the White House, an Obama aide said. “President-elect Barack Obama called Nancy Reagan today to ...
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Obama apologizes to Nancy Reagan for 'careless' joke
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Can You Feel the Love?
Weekly Standard Blog —
Obama makes a joke at Nancy Reagan's expense at his first post-partisan, uplifting press conference. The press corps enjoys it.
Ronald Reagan's 86-year-old widow is currently recovering from a broken pelvis suffered in October.
Perhaps picking on her is part of Obama's vaunted "social perception," as praised by David Brooks.
Reagan consulted an astrologist, after her husband was shot. There's at least one account of Hillary Clinton attempting to speak to the ...
McClellan: Obama Made 'No Mistakes' in Nancy Reagan-Mocking Presser
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Let's see. Obama makes a joke at the expense of the 87-year old widow—recently released from the hospital with a broken hip—of a beloved former president. Shortly thereafter, Obama is forced to apologize, and is getting pounded at a highly-influential web site. Yet McClellan sees no mistake. What can we conclude? ...
POLITICS: No Class
Baseball Crank —
... (for which he had to apologize) at the expense of 87-year-old Nancy Reagan, last seen leaving the hospital a few weeks back with a broken pelvis: ...
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WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/7/2008
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