Obama Gets Classless Remark Wrong...

President-elect Barack Obama, asked during his first news conference today if he's spoken with former presidents since he was elected, said he'd spoken to the "living" ones. Then, apparently realizing he'd just said something stupid, added this classless remark about the ailing widow of the late President Ronald Reagan: "I have spoken to all of them who are living," he said. He then quickly added, "I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances," he said.

It actually wasn't Nancy Reagan who was linked to conversations with the dead; it was Obama's top Democratic challenger for the presidency, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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