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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:00 AM
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OK look, since it's hit the MSM I'll post this NYT article from AUGUST
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/us/politics/07rivals.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

'Consider a scene from the Capitol on a recent evening. It was a few minutes after 8 p.m. when the side doors of the Senate swung open and three Democratic candidates walked through.

Mrs. Clinton, of New York, and Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut came first, laughing as they made their way to the Democratic side of the aisle. A few paces behind was Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, who quickly joined them. Mr. Obama, of Illinois, entered the Senate floor alone. He glanced at the other three, then pulled out his BlackBerry and paused for a few seconds before taking a seat next to three freshman senators. As the evening passed, Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton each spoke to several Republicans and to nearly every Democrat — except each other.

It was not always this way.

When Mr. Obama was running for the Senate in 2004, Mrs. Clinton once sat on the tarmac waiting out a lightning storm to fly to Chicago for a fund-raiser on his behalf. After he arrived in Washington in 2005, he studied her first year in office and worked to keep a similarly studious and low profile. After Hurricane Katrina, he joined Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton as they visited storm evacuees in Houston.

The relationship began to change when Mr. Obama began musing aloud about a presidential bid. The day he opened his exploratory committee, several Senate observers said, he extended his hand and said hello on the Senate floor. She breezed by him, offering a cool stare.'

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Hello, anyone remember this?

The whole thing is just bizarre. This has been going on for a long time, and the ENERGY with which people are trying to pin the blame for the so-called incident yesterday on one of the two candidates is truly incredible. Even if someone could conclusively prove the 'snub' one way or the other, what does it matter? The two of them have been like this to each other for months. WHAT DOES IT MATTER?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:08 AM
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1. Thanks for adding some substance to this 'wordbite' I've read today.
I had read about Clinton's diss, but the context does make sense to me.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:09 AM
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2. It matters because the boorish young man did on live television. n/t
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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:11 AM
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3. Ok I give up
:eyes:

Didn't even want to be in this discussion anyway
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EmperorHasNoClothes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:17 AM
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4. It's hopeless.
Sometimes I feel like telling people to go sit in the corner, like a 4 year old.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:20 AM
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6. Gotcha politics. ~yawn~
NGU.


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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:20 AM
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5. It DOESN'T matter, of course,
unless some are using such 'matters' as ways to help them make a decision they'd rather not have to think too hard to make.

MSM approach to life seems to have rubbed off on too many Americans.
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