AP report makes it clear: it was Hillary who clearly disrespected Obama by reaching across Obama

[milkyway]

to shake Kennedy's hand. Obama then turned away from her and allowed her to converse with Kennedy without forcing a handshake out of her. The pictures clearly show Obama between Hillary and Kennedy. Hillary crossed the aisle and reached out to Kennedy, obviously reaching across Obama (rude, rude, rude).

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UF9T503&show_article=1

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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.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Who. Fucking. Cares?

[Connie_Corleone]

4. Apparently, Hillary supporters do. That's all they got.

[Lerkfish]

11. sad, isn't it?

on this spins their campaign hopes.

[ursi]

26. if slamming Obama for this is the best they can do ...good grief!

[ErnestoG]

23. Ohhhhh NOW they don't care! LOL

Unreal.

[sandnsea]

2. That's what the pic looked like

And there it is. She was the one being rude and the Hillary supporters will never admit it.

[maddiejoan]

3. He turned away

was she supposed to just leave her hand hanging in mid-air waiting for His Majesty to deign her with his hand?

[Connie_Corleone]

7. Her hand wasn't hanging in mid-air. She was still shaking Kennedy's hand.

[milkyway]

12. Read the article. She "reached out a hand to greet Sen. Edward M. Kennedy."

Only Hillary supporters would be so desperate as to use their own reading comprehension problems to attack Obama.

[sandnsea]

14. She was shaking Kennedys hand

exactly as the AP article says. She walked over to shake Kennedy's hand. She walked right past him. He then turned away. The picture and the article are clear.

[maddiejoan]

22. I think you're stretching

The photographer on the scene doesn't report it that way.

[sandnsea]

27. The AP journalist does

As does common sense in viewing the picture. She walked over to shake hands and if she intended to shake Obama's she would have went to him first. She didn't.

[maddiejoan]

28. He was turned away

Was she supposed to pat him on the behind?

[sandnsea]

29. "reached out a hand to greet Senator Kennedy"

It really can't be any clearer. She is reaching past and over everybody else to shake Kennedy's hand.

[maddiejoan]

30. Because he had turned away

sheeeesh

[sandnsea]

31. Because she shook Kennedy's hand

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4259550

[Tarc]

5. "while Obama...turned away"

Doesn't get any clearer than that, spinmeister. This is all on Obama's hands. (pun intentional)

[Thrill]

6. Hillary was being a snob as usual

[Blue-Jay]

8. If only there was a thread where we could discuss this...

[sandnsea]

15. you could start one

:rofl:

[Proud2BAmurkin]

9. Teddy gets the first shake as elder statesman

[milkyway]

25. I knew you'd be checking in soon. That all you got?

[jlake]

10. Did you read the article. You are either illiterate or spinning so fast you are going to combust.

[tishaLA]

13. i'm ashamed for her.

i've lost all respect for her....and she was my #2 before this classless dig.

[Tulkas]

16. who cares, I am just glad she won't be his V.P.

[onehandle]

17. Photographer says otherwise...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4258452

[milkyway]

21. No link other than a DU discussion. First, Keith wasn't there; did he interview the photographer?

And one DU poster reporting on what Keith says doesn't substantiate anything.

[Yuugal]

18. "clad in scarlet"

This is too funny. Talk about a slow news day............

[Hippo_Tron]

19. I'm just gonna post this on an Obama supporter thread since I'll be attacked on a Clinton thread

This has to be the dumbest fucking thing ever. Nobody knows who snubbed who and it amazes me that people actually care.

[milkyway]

24. I agree, but the Clinton supporters are using it to build up a real good hate for Obama. I couldn't

give a shit about what happened, even if there is video showing Hillary at fault. Just trying to stop the manufactured outrage.

[noamnety]

20. "Clad in scarlet"

When the HELL are we going to move beyond reporting what women wear?

Adding that Obama was wearing a dark suit does not erase the sexism in that sort of journalism. Every man there was wearing a dark suit, ffs, same as they did at the SOTU before this, and the one before that and the one before that.

I don't care who shook whose hand, who reached across whose body, who turned away, or whose drapes their outfits matched.

I want to know who is going to stop the Iraq occupation.