Why Forcing Obama to behave like an attention-seeking, back-slapping politician

[Sensitivity]

What was wrong with him just giving Hillary and Kennedy some space.
It seems to me that the Hillary supporters' rants about the non-handshake is just a reflexive
effort of find the worst possible interpretation of anything touching on Obama and then
engaging in a sliming attack on the candidate.

It is so sad one wants to just give up on visiting DU. It is tragic. Must be totally exhausting to
Obama supporters.

[Maven]

1. I don't know why anyone would think of Obama as an attention-seeker.

[emilyg]

9. Most politicians are.

[LVjinx]

2. giving em some space

Did you see Obama's expressions in the before and after picture? Most people seem only to have seen the after picture. He wasn't just giving Hillary some space, he was glaring daggers at her back before she walked over. He ran all the way around the other side of Kennedy to avoid her.

[rodeodance]

4. I think IP is making up an excuse for Obama>:"giving em some space"

[rodeodance]

3. so, you think Hillary is to blame for forcing Obama to "behave like an attention-seeking, back-slapp

???? Is that what you are saying??

.......Why Forcing Obama to behave like an attention-seeking, back-slapping politician

[Sensitivity]

5. Looks like Hillary supporters are saying he should play the role or else

[rodeodance]

8. Please answer my question.

[rodeodance]

6. This AP story will help you understand the details:

No Chitchat Between Clinton and Obama
By LAURIE KELLMAN – 26 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — So close, yet so far away — and so bitter.

Rival Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama came within a foot of each other just before President Bush's State of the Union speech Monday night and managed not to acknowledge each other, and certainly not touch.

Clinton, clad in scarlet, crossed the aisle between their seats on the House floor and reached out a hand to greet Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Democratic icon whose endorsement she had courted only to lose it to Obama.

Kennedy shook her hand while Obama, wearing a dark suit and standing between the two, turned away.

More: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iwAZfoVaIxMG3gK2KY4tpS9QN0NQD8UF9GT01

[rodeodance]

7. "Obama, wearing a dark suit and standing between the two, turned away."

[ursi]

10. good point, Sensitivity.