Did You Hear the One about Obama?
A true story in one part, by Linda Thieman
On Wednesday of this week, Florida congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen picked up her phone and found herself on the line with President-elect Barack Obama. Well, that’s who he claimed to be, at any rate.The Republican representative assumed the call was a prank, telling the Miami Herald, “I thought it was one of the radio stations in South Florida playing an incredible, elaborate, terrific prank on me. 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.'”
So she talked to Obama (the ACTUAL Obama) for about a minute, complimented him on his Obama impersonation, and promptly hung up on him.
Then Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, called her to clear things up. Come on! She’s on to you, punk! She didn’t buy that ploy either, and she hung up on him, too.
Well, you can see why a gal would want to be careful after what happened to Sarah Palin.
Finally, Obama’s staff did what they should have done in the first place and had someone the congresswoman actually knew—a trusted colleague—call her to let her know Barack Obama was going to be calling her. And I imagine he said, “And don’t hang up this time, for heaven’s sake!” Or something mild like that.
Luckily, when Obama finally got through and didn’t get hung up on, he thought it was a real hoot and could sympathize, adding that the Chicago radio stations do that sort of thing all the time.
Who knew?
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