Ros-Lehtinen hangs up on Obama. Twice.

[BlueJessamine]

Source: POLITICO

Is Ileana Ros-Lehtinen a little paranoid?

Maybe.

On Wednesday, the Republican congresswoman got a call from President-elect Barack Obama, didn't believe it was him, and hung up on him. Twice.

According to Ros-Lehtinen's flack Alex Cruz, the congresswoman received the call on her cell phone from a Chicago-based number and an aide informed her that Obama wanted to speak to her. When Obama introduced himself, Ros-Lehtinen cut him off and said, "I'm sorry but I think this is a joke from one of the South Florida radio stations known for these pranks." Then she hung up.

Moments later, Obama tried again, this time through his soon-to-be chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.

"Ileana, I cannot believe you hung up on the President-Elect," Emanuel said. And then--yes, you know what's coming--she hung up on Emanuel saying she "didn't believe the call was legitimate."

A short time later, Ros-Lehtinen received an urgent call from Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who informed her that she indeed hung up on Obama.




Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1208/RosLehtinen_hangs_up_on_Obama_Twice.html

[phusion]

1. lol

lots of cautious politicos after the Palin incident.

[uppityperson]

14. Indeed, that was my first thought also.

[hoplophile]

2. ha ha ha ha. That's funny!

You would think there is some kind of protocol in place so that does not happen.

[tularetom]

3. Madame Ros-Lehtinen? Nicholas Sarkozy pour vous - Line deux

[pnwmom]

4. The President-elect should call ME. I won't hang up on him!

:loveya:

[Zhade]

5. "yes, you know what's coming" -- of course we do, you tipped the joke in the headline.

:p

[Pab Sungenis]

6. Can't blame her.

Her party spent so much time demonizing Obama that she must have believed he would never really ask to speak with her.

[gristy]

7. This woman is so clueless (and rude) that she could not listen to Obama and decide for herself

if the call was legit. How dense can you get?

[pearl]

8. I'm just curious

What in the world was he calling her about? He really is reaching out. Maybe each and every one of them is going to get a call from him. Wow.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. They will all get calls from him saying: "Your ass is grass and I'm the lawn-mower:

[Xipe Totec]

9. What kind of an idiot do you take me for?

Uh, the kind of idiot that hangs up on the President-Elect.

Twice.

[struggle4progress]

10. I wouldn't have called the third time. Really. Make a fair effort and then move on.

[bleever]

11. The joke from south Florida was on the receiving end of that call.

Viva Florida Libre!

[Maven]

12. LOL!

[orleans]

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(MORON!)

[hootinholler]

16. No one is going to Palin her!

:rofl:

-Hoot

[underpants]

17. Here is her pro-surge speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK7lQMgQSy8

[lunatica]

18. Yeah, Obama's voice is so hard to recognize...

:sarcasm:

[sarcasmo]

19. She has been on Bill Maher's show a few times and is a terrible guest.

I sense a few jokes from him about this when next season continues.

[VaYallaDawg]

21. I have a feeling this will become a standing joke w/him.

[KamaAina]

20. Most repukes have hangups *about* Obama

but this is the first one to hang up on him! :dunce:

[struggle4progress]

22. "You will always be remembered by me, because I have made many of these calls and never once has

anyone ever hung up on me. And never once has anyone hung up on me twice."

Florida Congresswoman hangs up on Obama - twice
By Jimmy Orr | 12.04.08
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/12/04/florida-congresswoman-hangs-up-on-obama-twice/

[Ecumenist]

23. That bitch knew what she was doing.. She's a lying heifer.

[Judi Lynn]

24. She's a treacherous P.O.S., who ran originally for Congress on a promise to get a pardon

for Cuban "exile" terrorist, mass murdering/bomber Orlando Bosch, who had been in prison for his part in the murder of 73 people on a Cubana airliner, killing them in mid-flight. It was the first bombing of an in-flight airliner in history. What a legacy. Nevertheless, the Cuban right-wingers in Florida wanted to get him back into the country, and get him a pardon, after the Assistant Attorney General, Joe D. Whitley had acted to keep him out, in his exclusionary hearing, after 31 other countries refused to allow him to enter.

Jeb Bush was Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's campaign manager at the time, and he helped her persuade his father to give Orlando Bosch a pardon, and to allow him back into the country, where he lives as a completely free man in Miami, which, through the actions of their city commissioners, named an annual Orlando Bosch Day, as well as a street.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is called "The She-Wolf" by Cubans living in Cuba.


http://upload.wikimedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen_110th_Pictorial.jpg

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

http://content6.flixster.com.nyud.net:8090/photo/49/80/30/4980304_tml.jpg

Ernest Borgnine

http://www.historyofcuba.com.nyud.net:8090/images/gallery/F-Batista.jpg http://media-2.web.britannica.com.nyud.net:8090/eb-media/76/62076-004-3D853E9F.jpg

Bloody Cuban torture/deathsquad-loving butcher, US puppet, Fulgencio Batista

[Eurobabe]

25. That harpy is a dumb-ass anyhow.

She is just plain obnoxious. I can't stomach her.