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Topic subject AP reporting on the Obama handshake snub - w/ PICTURES
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Posted by bidenista on Mon Jan-28-08 09:33 PM
Edited to add pictures. Judge for yourselves:
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