UPDATE - Obama went over Ron's head to Nancy.
You would like to think the media and the right wing world would focus on the economic issues relating to the stimulus plan and tax policy that were raised at the press conference. Most likely they will focus on the non-policy question of what could be the President-Elect's first gaffe. Trumpets please. LGF's feigned outrage says "Obama takes a shot at Reagan". Drudge's feigned outrage says Obama "takes shot at Nancy Reagan for holding seances". From Politico
Obama in his first post-election press conference that he's spoken to all the former presidents — Carter, Bush, Clinton, as well as the current Bush — and, looser than he's been in months, dares a joke at the expense of the widow of the most recently deceased.
"I have spoken to all of them who are living," he says. "I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances," he says.
Living on the West Coast I have been lucky enough to catch Air America's The Ron Reagan Show during my drive home between 5 and 6. He is taking part of Rachel Maddow's old time slot now that she is setting the world on fire at MSNBC. I think he might follow her to network glory. He is great. Ron is familiar with his old man getting hits for things like suggesting that WW III was going to start during a soundcheck. I am guessing he realizes that Obama was was trying to make a joke, playing off the questioner using the term "living Presidents". It is a way the President-Elect could take care of this in close to one news cycle and take care of any offense the Reagan family might take.