This lady hangs up on phone call from Obama.

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Posted by Kinezi on Dec-05-2008 05:50:

This lady hangs up on phone call from Obama.

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When President-elect Barack Obama called Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen at her Miami district office Wednesday, she hung up on him.

�I thought: �Why would Obama want to call a little slug on the planet like me?� � said Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican.

A short time later, Rahm Emanuel, Obama�s designated chief of staff, called. Ros-Lehtinen hung up on him, too.

�I thought it was one of the radio stations in South Florida playing an incredible, elaborate, terrific prank on me,� Ros-Lehtinen said. �They got Fidel Castro to go along. They�ve gotten Hugo Chavez and others to fall for their tricks. I said, �Oh no, I won�t be punked.� �

Ros-Lehtinen was in Miami when she received Obama�s first call about 1 p.m. on her cell phone from a Chicago-based number. The person on the line told Ros-Lehtinen that the president-elect would like to speak to her.

A man, who Ros-Lehtinen said sounded like Obama, got on the line and congratulated her on her re-election and said he was looking forward to working with her as the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The conversation lasted just a minute when Ros-Lehtinen cut Obama off, telling him she wasn�t falling for the hoax and he was a better impersonator than the guy on �Saturday Night Live.�

Then Emanuel called and she hung up on him. It finally took Rep. Howard Berman, a California Democrat and the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, to convince Ros-Lehtinen the president-elect indeed wanted to talk to her.

�I asked Howard to tell me a private joke we share about colleagues in the House to make sure it really was him,� Ros-Lehtinen said. �When he did, I realized it was the real deal.�

Ros-Lehtinen said she then told Berman: �I know this sounds very presumptuous, but please tell President-elect Obama he can call me now and I will take his call.�

Ros-Lehtinen said she now feels like a �bozo,� but is honored that Obama called her. She said it shows his effort to be bipartisan, which she said is especially important in foreign relations.

Posted by Renegade on Dec-05-2008 05:53:

She's from Florida. They're always from Florida.

Posted by Sunsnail on Dec-05-2008 06:23:

Yeah, one of the radio stations in miami actually pranked called Fidel Castro. I can see her being paranoid.

Posted by josh4 on Dec-05-2008 06:43:

thats hilarious

Posted by Q5echo on Dec-05-2008 11:18:

bump

Posted by Kinezi on Dec-06-2008 21:32:

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Originally posted by Q5echo
bump

why?

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Dec-07-2008 02:59:

The real story here is that Obama has been calling up all the congressional republicans as a show of good faith... and if the reaction of Ms. Ros-Lehtinen is any indication, it's being taken as sincere.

I'm not experiencing any of that buyer's remorse conservatives were convinced I'd be feeling by now.