The Snub

Have you heard about The Snub?  Hillary reached for Barack’s hand at the State of the Union and struck out.

The media has been using this photo as proof of the snub.

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Barack says he was talking to someone else at the time.  Hillary is obviously talking to Ted Kennedy at the time, so this picture doesn’t prove anything to me.

But let’s say the snubbed happened.

I was raised Catholic.

One of the biggest worries I had going to Church was the Sign of Peace snub.  You shake hands with people around you and say “peace.”  There are lots of hands to shake, so it’s fairly typical to reach your hand out to someone while they simultaneously reach out for someone else.  I wouldn’t say that person deliberately snubbed me.

Until we get the photo/video of Barack staring Hillary down while she put her hand out, I’ll go ahead and call this media-generated bullshit.   But surely no other cameras were focused on Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton at this time.

4 Replies to “The Snub”

  1. that pictures looks like she is shaking hands with Kennedy so I see no snub on Obama’s part. Also, if he is talking to someone in that picture, they must be really short because he’s looking down. Midget Senator?

    • Well, if you cut Kennedy out of the picture, it looks like Hillary is talking to a midget senator, too.

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