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US congresswoman hangs up on Obama, twice
Dec 4, 2008, 15:42 GMT
Washington - Apparently, Barack Obama is quite good at impersonating himself.
A Republican congresswoman from Florida hung up on the US president-elect - twice - when he telephoned to discuss policy, believing it was actually a hoax from local pranksters.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen received a call on her mobile phone Wednesday from an aide to Obama, who asked her to hold for the president-elect.
'A gentleman sounding like Obama introduced himself when Ros- Lehtinen cut him off and said that 'Im sorry but I think this is a joke from one of the South Florida radio stations known for these pranks' and hung up,' according to a press release from the congresswoman's office.
Soon after, she received a call from Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who promptly told her: 'Ileana, I cannot believe that you hung up on the president-elect.'
Unconvinced, Ros-Lehtinen proceeded to hang up on Emanuel, too.
It eventually took a call from Howard Berman, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, to convince her this was no joke. But even Berman was first made to recount a personal story only the two of them would know.
Finally, Obama called back. They discussed Cuba and Israeli policy and she congratulated him on his election victory, but not before both lamented the success of local pranksters in Florida and Obama's hometown of Chicago.
'Saturday Night Live could use a good Obama impersonator like you,' Ros-Lehtinen quipped, according to the press release.
She had some reason to be suspicious. Shortly before the November 4 general election, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was fooled by comedians from a Canadian radio station who impersonated French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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..you elected a president with actually less experience than Sara...
Less experience in your mind maybe, but at least he has intelligence - something Palin is sorely lacking. She rattles on and on and never says anything. Thank god people saw through her.
...we heard this about John Kerry too, remember?
Tell us, professor, how did that work out? I think they got his college records and compared them to GW Bush and they looked pretty much the same.
ooooh...burn!
Libnazis defame three ways
stupid - like GW Bush
crazy - Like GW Bush, after he beat the smart guy (see above) they couldn't really sell the stupid thing
radical - Like Bush, after no one bought the crazy thing either.
No, you got the last one at 0 for 3, so why now, would we believe you?
The joker you picked is writing a check for GM as we speak, a check Palin would be smart enough not to write, and that full feeling in your rectum is all the old Clintonites who will be pulling Pinochio's strings for the next four years.
So pat yourself on the back and get out the K-Y.
sp4 goes on and on and on
he just can't believe the dems won
must be hell to be that stupid...
be hell to be that stoned all the time.
SP thinks he is the reincarnation of Einstein - intelligent beyond a fault on anything and everything. Let the little old man have his dream - it's probably all he's got or he wouldn't spend so much time here.
Hey idiot stick, lets see this 'experienced' diva manage a state that is now going broke, actually have a real debate, and get some experience she needs. Less experience can actually be made up for by actual intelligence. Humm, lets see, a Journalist Major that had to go to 5 different Jr colleges to get a 4 year degree---or number one in the class at Harvard? I wonder whom I would rather have as my president??????
So wrong SP4 you are still making yourself look stupid.
so stupid he does not even realize that is is always making himself the 'dunce' if the class. I would think that all the times he makes himself look so stupid would affect him in some way, but he just keeps going, and going and going---the Everready idiot stick.
SP is far from stupid, he's just got elephantitis.
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No bodyDec 4th, 2008 - 23:03:25
is as stupid and as high on themselves as Palin. This lady at least had the guts to question the call.
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