The Official "I don't give a damn about the handshake thing" Thread.

[Colobo]

If you really don't give a damn about it, please let us know.

[mth44sc]

1. count me in

[MassLiberal]

2. to care about this

is to play into the media's hands. They're just pushing this story to create a stir.

Everybody take a nice deep breath and move on!

[Big Blue Marble]

63. That is what certain people around here want to happen. n/t

[Thrill]

3. Bump

[CherylK]

78. Double Bump

[mrreowwr_kittty]

4. I swear to god if this gets traction and affects the race, I give up.

Dumberica will get exactly what it deserves.

[VotesForWomen]

65. kind of like the 'fairy tale' = clinton's are race baiters. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Buck buck!

:-)

[NMMNG]

6. If you care so little,

why did you start an entire thread about it? :shrug:

[Colobo]

8. To let everyone know that I don't care.

[angie_love]

41. LOL

well said katz

[ErnestoG]

7. Checking in.

The first total non issue of the primary season. Brought to you by the Hillarites - working today for a bland, DLC future.

[Catherine Vincent]

28. You do care.

You've been blabbing about it all night.:eyes:

[ErnestoG]

57. I care about rebuffing lying Hillarbots, yes.

Is there a problem?

[emilyg]

95. Quit focusing on it big mouth.

[eridani]

9. I just wish that both of them would quit kissing corporate ass. n/t

[neutron]

45. you mean like nurses? Are they corporate?

They just endorsed HRC, and listed the impressive amount work she had done for nurses.

[eridani]

52. Anyone who isn't for single payer is corporate, period n/t

[rhett o rick]

77. But will she repeal the Patriot Act or the MCA or restrict lobbists? nm

[TwilightGardener]

10. Yo.

[EffieBlack]

11. Here

[gmudem]

12. In the name of all that is completely irrelevant

I kick

[Frances]

13. Well, I am angry that people aren't bashing Bush

for his speech and talking about FISA etc.

[complain jane]

50. Good point n/t

[slipslidingaway]

14. K&R added to my growing list n/t

[donheld]

15. Katzenkavalier you have big problems knowing what's important

Don't you know handshakes are ALL that matter? :sarcasm:

[madrchsod]

16. calling "miss manners" hell maybe she`s dead

[Armstead]

17. I don't give a damn -- But it shows how absurdly comic it's all getting

[alittlelark]

18. I couldn't care less.... really, I couldn't.

I do not believe it is possible to care less..........


But the MSM TELLS ME I MUST CARE.....%&^%*$@*&^^%$%



I'm so confused.

[awoke_in_2003]

108. "I couldn't care less"

Finally, someone who used the phrase correctly. No real reason to respond to you, except to say "Go John"

[Nedsdag]

19. Doublekick!

:kick: :kick:

[tammywammy]

20. I'm adding it to the list

Most ridiculous "gates" so far: Hillary-didn't-tipgate and Edwards-mansion-house-gate

[NanceGreggs]

21. Just had to K&R this one ...

My log-in this morning offered myriad threads about "your candidate has ties to worse criminals than my candidate".

Nice to see it finally evolved into thought-provoking threads about handshakes - implied, inferred, dissed, dismissed, offered, ignored - but by all means, fraught with meaning and implications for our nation all around.

Jesus wept.

[jefferson_dem]

22. Ok. I'm here now.

Onward ... to things that really matter.

[Neshanic]

23. Thank you!

[Catherine Vincent]

24. Of course you don't because you don't want to admit your guy was RUDE. nt

[scheming daemons]

31. With the race-baiting that the Clintons did this past two weeks...

..Hillary's lucky Obama didn't punch her in the fucking head.

[Catherine Vincent]

35. There was no race baiting. nt

[Djinn]

56. "your" guy

and "my" guy :eyes:

[FrenchieCat]

25. Just came back from the real world.......

and I don't know what happened, and I don't give a rat's ass.

Soldiers died in Iraq, that I know about. :(

[tammywammy]

27. ahh, Frenchie

:hug: You don't want to know what's been going on. Trust me. ;)

[Turn CO Blue]

38. 3940 now, Frenchie. We'll be passing 4000 all too soon.

[GoldieAZ49]

26. I find it stunning

that DU has so many threads started about this

[Scurrilous]

29. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Guaranteed]

30. Best thread all day. nt

[BeyondGeography]

32. ShakeGate will be dead by morning

RIP

[ZinZen]

33. This is seriously much ado about nothing.

[SeattleGirl]

34. Adding my name to the don't give a damn about the handshake list.

What a bunch of overblown crap! And look at what the media's doing -- blowing it all out of proportion in order to take everyone's eye off that piece of verbal diarrhea that Bush spewed tonight.

[Turn CO Blue]

36. I really, really don't give a damn. And I don't want to see 453

threads about it either. Good grief, it's gonna take a lot of work to hide all that trite, asinine crap!

[flyarm]

37. thank you..oh and 5 soldiers died today in Iraq..but lets not discuss that ..

and how 5 families are torn apart and in tears tonight..

nope.. lets have a handshake party shall we?:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

fly

[Djinn]

58. not to mention a shitload of Iraqis

[flyarm]

59. oh absolutely..but ..anymore that is not important at du..only handshakes make all the pages! eom

[angie_love]

39. word

this handshake thing is the stupidest fucking thing. The hillbots have reached a new low, I smell the desperation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. There are more important things than the media created scandal du-jour

[Zodiak]

42. A non-issue

tempest in a teapot...all that jazz.

[NJObamaWoman]

43. me. I find it all immature on everyones part.

[NutmegYankee]

44. Thank You!

[complain jane]

46. I don't give a rat's ass and I think to care about this is pretty hilarious

[Kittycat]

47. Non-issue

[lynch03]

48. Don't care about it. Regardless, it turned out to be all b.s. anyway

[LittleClarkie]

51. Where did we get that established finally?

It would be nice to see. Maybe I just haven't found the right article or thread yet. Can you point me to what you mean by it turning out to be bs?

[Madam Mossfern]

49. A club I will gladly join!

:beer:

[Djinn]

53. if people really are deciding

who should run the free world based on politeness or lack of it then Americans deserve the shitty governments they get.

I couldn't care less if my PM is a foul mouthed uncouth yobbo - what are his POLICIES!!!

My god, multi MILLIONS are being spent and the defining arguments are utterly and compleetly irrelevant, which I suppose they have to be, any sustained analysis of their positions would have most people realising the differences between them are so minor as to be insignificant and millions were being wasted on bread and circuses.

[Hill_YesWeWill]

54. I'd recommend if I could! I really don't care at all about this,

I think it's just something the MSM has decided to make a story, it's pretty boring, I think.

[cbayer]

99. Welcome to DU!

And don't let anyone scare you off. There is a lot of passion here for individual candidates and sometimes people get a mite carried away.
DU will let you recommend after about 50 posts

[MonkeyFunk]

55. Count me in!

I missed the whole thing and am just now am learning about it. A more unimportant issue, I can't imagine.

[Occam Bandage]

60. Checkin' in. This is stupid shit.

[mahina]

61. yo

meaning
less

[Big Blue Marble]

62. Oh thank gawd.

It is a relief to say it. I don't give a damn.

Whew that feels better.

[Khaotic]

64. I disagree ...

My thoughts aren't they I don't give a shit ... the truth is, I don't give a fuck!

All I've seen is a picture followed by a lie from the AP photographer who took it.

Obama was still clapping and looked like he was getting out of Ted's way. Unless we see video, this one is pretty lackluster and tabloid.

Stick it up there with the latest photo of Britney.

What a waste.

[goodgd_yall]

66. I blame it on DU burnout

[Jennifer C]

67. I don't give a damn

Such a pathetic non issue. Thanks for thread :thumbsup:

[workinclasszero]

68. Did she cry???

Hey I guess this is all Hillary supporters got. Lets all support a person who plays the race card in SC and suppresses the vote in Nevada cause Obama didn't shake her hand.:sarcasm:

BuHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[Skidmore]

69. Agreed.

Grade school playground cattiness.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

70. I don't even give a shit that you don't give a damn.

:P

[Name removed]

71. Deleted message

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[NoPasaran]

72. Checking in

Just one of those DU jihads in a teacup.

[rox63]

73. The "handshake" controversy is the biggest pile of BS I've heard about in a long time n/t

[ariesgem]

74. Checking in. It's a non-story and I also don't give a damn. nt

[Adelante]

75. I woke up an hour ago

I think I will go back to bed and pretend I dreamed the idiocy I've seen this morning. Surely by the time I wake up again, there will be a new bright shining object.

[qanda]

76. Yeah, I didn't know anything about it until just now

That's what I get for not caring about Bush's little speech.

[Vinca]

79. Since I couldn't stand to watch the speech, I didn't see the

handshake thing and don't really care who was or was not snubbed. More importantly, how many Americans watched the SOU speech and saw it? Even more importantly, of those same nonwatching Americans, how many know who's running for president . . . or, for that matter, who is the current president? Remember we live in the world of political junkies, but we're also surrounded by many, many dim bulbs.

[philly_bob]

80. I do give a damn. My hesitation about Obama is that I don't feel I know him.

Petty little things -- and I freely admit the handshake thing is a petty thing -- help folks like me get a sense of who he is.

That's what the primaries do, show us candidates under pressure. The more microscopic examination of Obama's behavior in the primaries there is, the easier I will feel about defending him and voting for him in the general election if he gets the nomination.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

82. How do you get a sense about someone by media spin? nt

[philly_bob]

84. The trick is to tell the difference between media spin and reality. /nt

[kdpeters]

81. AMEN

Why do people recommend this petty stuff over and over and over? It used to be that the Greatest page was a pretty good filter for good threads. This morning it's full of this handshake nonsense. What's so great about it?

[bunnies]

83. check. nt

[Az_lefty]

85. Awkward moments happen all the time...

this handshake thing is nothing...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

86. I couldn't care less.

Much ado about nothing, as far as I am concerned. I am more concerned about Mr. Obama's and Ms. Clinton's stands on the issues that are important to me.

[Kadie]

87. Count me in.

This is totally bizarre!

:rofl:

[momster]

88. Agreed!

There are so many *real* stories that get overwhelmed by the endless flood of Britney b.s. and this is just one more 'look...a kittie!' story that we're supposed to get all hyped up about. I refuse.

[mzmolly]

89. I imagine it was simply an akward moment caught on film? I have not seen the video recap, but I

watched the SOTU and saw no mention?

[ShortnFiery]

90. Yes, I'm here!

:hi:

[dmallind]

91. not a damn shit here. NT

[stickernation]

92. I thought it was "the SNUB" ?

i think it'll probably boil down into "The Snub", which also sounds like a romantic comedy starring adam sandler and jessica alba...

-s

[Lil Missy]

93. From this Hillary supporter, I don't think it was an intentional snub.

[golddigger]

94. This Edwards supporter endorses this thread...n/t

:evilgrin:

[CaptJasHook]

96. This Rational Human being supports this thread nt

[psychopomp]

97. I would like to see more unity

and I think this thing is being taken to extremes.

[blondie58]

98. Count me in!

this is a whole lot of nothing...

[7horses]

100. ? What handshake?

Keep it going!!!

Go John go!!!

[quakerboy]

101. No touchy without the hand sanitizer...

i get it. diseases pass far to easily in kindergarten.

[Canuckistanian]

102. I'm in

Freaking tempest in a freaking teapot.

Move on.

[varelse]

103. I'm over it. No, wait...

Never gave a damn to begin with.

So glad we could get past that.

NOW... Moving right along to this checklist:

Universal Health Care
Stopping the Global Meltdown (otherwise known as "global warming")
Eliminating welfare to the "have mores" (or GWB's "base" as he likes to call them)in the form of WAR profiteering, Privatization of government functions, and corporate tax immunity
Justice and Liberty for All (and I do mean ALL) human beings - and first class citizenship for every American
Equal opportunity for All Americans - no, fuck it - let's include everyone on the planet, why not?
Repairing the damage to the foundation of our government that is the true GWB/Neocon legacy

Anyone who manages all or even half of the above deserves more than a handshake - they deserve a world wide standing ovation. Let's elect not only the President but also the Congressional representatives and Senators who can pull that one off, and then we can all stand in line to shake their hands. ;)

[graywarrior]

104. Here

[The Doctor.]

105. Not one ounce of concern.

Trying to make the destiny of our nation turn on a handshake is by far more petty than changing course on a blow job.

[gordianot]

106. Absolutely you give me hope for rational Obama supporter on DU.

[caraher]

107. I so don't care that I don't even want to hear what this dustup is about

I feel a bit out of the loop because my first reaction was, "What handshake?" And I have no desire to wade through the blow-by-blow of something so trivial.

This is not about the personal interactions among the Democratic candidates... this election is about reclaiming our country!

[racaulk]

109. That's me!

I could absolutely care less.

:kick: