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Color her skeptical
Topic Started: Dec 4 2008, 02:38 PM (108 Views)
dumblonde
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December 4th, 2008
Florida congresswoman hangs up on Obama twice
WASHINGTON - For Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the voice on her cell phone sounded eerily familiar.
“He sounded just like Obama,” she said on Thursday, referring to President-elect Barack Obama.
Sensing she was the victim of a spoof by a South Florida radio station, she promptly disconnected the call.
Trouble was, it was Obama.
A chagrined Ros-Lehtinen told the Fox News Channel that she also hung up on Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, when he called her back to explain it really was the next president on the line.
Both Emanuel and Obama tried to convince her the call was for real.
“Guys, it’s a great prank, really,” she said she told them.
It took a subsequent call from California Democratic Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to finally convince Ros-Lehtinen to talk to Obama.

http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/12/04/florida-congresswoman-hangs-up-on-obama-twice/
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Mtnman
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well you can never be to sure,, I think he might have called here as well but we hung up too...
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The Punisher
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Agreed, MM...
Guess he doesn't have caller ID!
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Yhitzak
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Oh, this poor woman! I laughed when I first read it (can't remember where, shock), but then when I found it on virtually EVERY news and political website AND on every news program yesterday, I thought, "Damn. What am I missing?" because this seems really stupid. The woman's explanation was rather reasonable, actually. She said that most calls from other politicos are structured: one person calls another's staff and arranges a good time and place for the call to happen. Obama didn't do that, he didn't structure the call. I can't say I would have reacted any differently than she did, given that fact.
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dumblonde
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One of the side effects of a "Gotcha" media.
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