Obama and Senate ally: Clinton wasn't snubbed

Boy if you need proof that ya have to have conflict in reporting and fodder for the fools, just look at the amount of posts on the last "snub" piece. At last count I saw 250 posts on something that means nothing to the American people.

Did you all miss the eyebrow movement of McCain? It was a direct jab at Romney. There was one senator asleep that was obviously an act of protest to Iraq war. Cheney gave the "Evil Eye" to Pelosi and at the end, they all did the hokey pokey.
If you want serious journalism, sign up for my recap of the SOTU.

Of course McCaskill would say that, she is in support of Obama. She is using him for votes for her next election.

Why, why, why is this a story? This is the kind of thing that just seems like reporters stirring the pot and making a story out of nothing. On top of it being a story, it's also the second biggest one highlighted on the front page. Come on Tribune! Give us a real story.

this shows how lame your lame newspaper is. you are the ONLY newspaper that reported it as a "snub." not even the New York Post and Fox News bothered with such over sensationalism.

Desperate times for Republicans demand desperate measures from the journalists who prop them up.

what a bunch of you know what. COVERUP, Obama shows his true colors. Wake up, American and see him for what he really is; an empty suit with no manners. Go Hillary

If Obama's body language holds true, then we will be in big trouble having a leader not having the gumption to do what's civil and what's right. True leaders know how to go past beyond politics and personalities.

yes! first post!
eat it!

OBAMA 08!!!

!si se peude!

I wish we could just look at the issues. There are so many out there. The Environment was totally ignored last evening. This is so important. The State of CA has it on the money....we have to address ASAP. Stop the infighting. It is not attractive in either candidate. I am not swayed by who is backing whom. I am looking at the person....I will vote for the person who is most sincere, honest and displays the most integrity. At this point, I will change parties to achieve that if the person I want does not get nominated.

And this is a POLITICIAN! BARACK who continually maintains a politics of unity and accord and he cannot even tame his own feelings of animosity with a competitor!

Politicians are liken to pigs wrestling in a cesspool of mud and dirt and then odorize themselves with empty rhetoric and self aggrandizement pronouncements!!!

perhaps the screaming web headline could have waited until you did this very, very basic bit of reporting.

nice that the very old gary, ind, carjacking is now the main item rather than this retraction.

the swamp, indeed.

Last night I went through my phone book and sent over 126 people text messages to support Barack Obama in their state Feb 5. I also encourage them to send it to 10 different people to spread the word on the importance of voting on Feb 5. I think supports on this site should do the same thing as well. Make a comment about why you support Obama and send to everyone in your phone book. We all can do something to keep the REVOLUTION alive.

OBAMA 08

I believe them.

I am glad we have some clarity to the media frenzy. I teach high school kids and expect your previous reactions there. Sometimes we interpret something wrong because you are looking for it. You would think that we mature and rationalize things as we become adults. Apparently not. Thumbs down to the media for making something out of nothing. I guess a lame duck Prez SOTU was too little to handle.

how ridiculous! the media makes something out of nothing and then blame the politicians. this type of reporting is getting worse than the 'rags' and makes them look stupid. next, they'll be cutting off heads and putting them on other bodies and create a bogus story, if they haven't already. very tired of this kind of childish, uninsightful reporting. where's the editor's disgression anymore?

Might as well clear it up now that you've gotten a day's worth of coverage from your media-made "story".

Why isn't THIS the new website headline?

I highly doubt that Sen. Obama shook Sen. Clinton's hand. As one can clearly see from the photo, Sen. Obama still had on his ring and watch.

It's a free country, I believe anyone is free to ignore whomever he or she chooses. Thanks to the mainstream media for blowing this up into a story, it's not like there's a war going on or a president who is documented to have lied over 900 times to start said war. This definitely deserves news coverage.

He snubbed her. No doubt

Is this the Trib or the National Enquirer?

DALLAS MORNING NEWS: "What a pleasure it is to see a candidate prosper who doesn't traffic in Clintonian cynicism. ... You've heard of the Reagan Democrats? Meet the Democrats' Reagan."

What the Kennedy endorsements mean for Dems

06:28 AM CST on Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Looks like the torch has been passed. Democrats have waited almost 50 years to find another JFK, and according to Sen. Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the foremost keepers of the Kennedy flame, the party now has its man in Barack Obama.

It remains to be seen what kind of effect Mr. Obama's anointing with the sacred oil of Kennedy myth will have on his electoral prospects with Democratic voters. But the story behind the story is damning to Hillary Clinton. Reports say the Kennedy patriarch's growing frustration with Bill and Hillary Clinton's hardball political tactics moved him into the Obama camp.

Using Lincoln's well-known phrase, the senior Senate Democrat yesterday praised Mr. Obama's "uncommon capacity to appeal to the better angels of our nature." Unlike, say, a certain Democratic power couple whose special brand of politicking has been making liberal voters queasy (conservatives say: join the club).

Mrs. Clinton's campaign has finally figured out that her husband is a drag. His obnoxious use of the race card in an attempt to make Mr. Obama into the special-interest candidate of blacks – this despite Mr. Obama's record of not racializing his own campaign – was appalling. Team Clinton is now pulling the ex-president back, but much damage has been done.

What a pleasure it is to see a candidate prosper who doesn't traffic in Clintonian cynicism. As Mr. Obama put it in his South Carolina victory speech, "We are up against decades of bitter partisanship that cause politicians to demonize their opponents." It is easy to disagree with a politician as liberal as Mr. Obama – and on a number of issues we do – but it is hard to dislike him. True, you don't vote for a president simply because he's a nice guy. But civility, decency and ordinary good cheer count for a lot.

JFK is not the only former president Mr. Obama brings to mind. Ronald Reagan was another can-do optimist gifted with charisma and oratorical skill. He arrived at a critical moment of national malaise and anxiety. Through the power of his engaging personality, he won the nation over to his ideas and set the agenda for U.S. politics for the next 25 years.

For better or for worse, depending on your point of view, Mr. Obama is emerging as a man who could do the same. You've heard of the Reagan Democrats? Meet the Democrats' Reagan.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-democrats_29edi.ART.State.Edition1.374baf9.html

That's really very funny. They had already acknowledged each other! The media needed a story, so they made one out of nothing. Surprise, surprise; the future of the country is at stake, and you guys are meddling. And why? Just to sell a few papers. As usual, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

It's so very, very dissapointing to see the media trying to make "something" out of "nothing" at every heart-beat concerning Obama and Hillary when this country has so many more important matters at stake. Stop it!

It is an unabashed shame that so many members of the media are pimping this photo as some sort of glimpse into two candidate's feelings of each other.
How many homes will be foreclosed on today? How many people will receive pink slips? How many college grads will open collections notices because they're working for tips, rather than in their field? How many people will receive a bill for cancer treatment close to annual salary of stock broker? How many American men and women will die in Iraq? How much farther will the dollar fall?
We, as a nation, are at a critical juncture and our top newspapers are covering a presidential election as if it's a beauty pagent.
For shame!

But look, his eyes were closed. IF not closed, he was looking downwards, with eyes almost closed. It is clear he was not looking at anybody. It's obvious he was not facing, much less, asking McCaskill. McCaskill has a problem trying to cover up for him.

Now for more important news....I counted 47 flag pins..who did and who did not wear them....Sign up for flag pins are us for the latest.
By the way...when you're done brow beating each other over this important news...a few of our troops were killed. Just if you care.

I think it is a shame the media catches "moments in time" that have nothing to do with the meaning that is put behind it. Fine example, this article/picture. Politics ugh!!

People will believe what they want to believe. It's a waste of time to try to convince a narrow-minded fool that he/she is a narrow-minded fool. When I saw the picture for the first time, I got the impression that Barack was looking or responding to someone in the direction he is looking. God please deliver us from stupid people.

Of course Obama's camp is going to come out and say it wasn't a snub. These are politicians, they lie all the time. Everyone knows it was a deliberate move on Barack's part. I think it was a bad move for him, especially in an event as televised as the State of the Union. This just shows his immaturity and he is not ready to lead this country.

Snub or no snub...who cares. I don't think this lead story on the Tribune Web site even made the top five stories read. It's not a story!!

so here we have the web "news cycle" in a nutshell. you "break" this "news" item first thing in the morning, get 100,000 google links, get a topix thread started, get an ABC "news" reference, build traffic to your web site.

and the end result?

the main actors are saying it's a non-event and people who are serious about news and politics are calling you silly and irrelevant.

good job!

Why do these type of non-stories get so much play?

Is the feeling that people are too dumb/lazy to understand the actual issues in this campaign? Would it hurt to at least try reporting on relevant topics and hope the public is interested?

Other newspapers are reporting Obama's action as a snub to Hillary.

Why can't our bi-racial junior Senator stand up and shake hands with Hillary?

A wave doesn't carry the day.

Obama has reached over and shaken the hand of GW Bush.

Why did Obama call up Resko to ask for his advice about buying his million dollar mansion when Obama knew Resko was being investigated by my hero, Patrick Fitzgerald?

I could care less who he shakes hands with - unless it's Tony Rezko or others of that ilk.

Today's fourth estate would make the Founding Fathers proud. Can the media cover the real issues or take their pens and leave the playground?

this is the most absurd piece of "news" i've ever seen.

to anyone who thinks they can read barack obama's mind by looking at a picture of him, i invite you to have umpteen thousand photographs taken of you over the course of your day, and then have the one or two that can easily be misinterpreted or taken out of context analyzed down to the nanometer.

is this how stupid we've become as a nation? that we'll entertain speculation of the candidate's feelings toward each other based on the "body language" found in a still photo? this is absolutely mind-numbingly ridiculous.

Welcome to life under the microscope Barack. Now you know why Britney Spears went crazy.

Dont know how many others are as incensed as I am about these chain emails being sent to religious groups and others that question Sen. Barack Obamas patriotism and religious beliefs. (See press link to last weeks open letter from Jewish groups being bombarded with these emails: http://www.adl.org/internet/Letter_obama.asp)

The use of the Internet to spread false information about a political candidate--- and thus to affect the outcome of an election--- is particularly abhorrent to me.

We cannot regress to old-style dirty tricks. In the public interest, we need to get behind these emails---and identify who originated them.

If you have received such an email, please forward it to me.

negemail53@gmail.com

This entire article is a complete waste of ink. Nothing more than sensational journalism trying to stir up you-know-what. Let's get on to something more serious. Like what Hannah Montana is doing...

This is a stupid story with an even more dumber response...man-up obama, you don't like her and you blew her off. Just say it or ignore it. The wave thing makes you sound like you said you didn't inhale. THIS is what have to choose for president? yuck

The "alleged" Obama snub was nothing compared to the snub PRESIDENT George W. Bush received from the entire Democratic party. Now, that's what I call childish. Shame on you!

Is Hillary a strong independent Woman or not? What was stopping her from reaching out her hand to Senator Obama, and for her to greet him. After all she was the one who came over to his space.

Why is Senator Obama expected to act like a supplicant to Hillary.

My lord! Hillary is supposed to be seen as a strong woman who can act just as independant as any Man, and then we get this kind of drivel, where people are whining because Senator Obama did not treat her like some Victorian Era Shrinking Violet who must always wait until the Man comes to her rescue.

Hillary shakes thousands of hands every day, and she is the one sticking out her hand to all those strangers. If she chose not to do so when she moved into Senator Obama's space, then why is that his fault?

I hope she does not break out in tears over such an affront to her sheltered existence.

Give the woman some credit. She is not going to swoon and get a case of the vapors.

She opted to not address him. Deal with it

In general, Obama can barely contain his arrogance and smugness. Not great qualities for a supposed "uniter."

"HEE-HEE OR HAH-HAH"

THAT WAS THE ONY BODY LANGUAGE I WITNESSED. THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND AMERICA HAVE BEEN SNUBBED FOR THE LAST 7 YEARS.

THAT WASN'T THE "STATE OF OUR UNION" THAT WAS THE STATE OF GEORGE BUSH, DICK CHENEY, AND CONDI RICE "UNION"

TILL THE END OF FIRE. TILL THE NEXT "MY VETO" TILL THE NEXT EMERGENCY SPENDING BILL BECAUSE "HIS IRAQ CIVIL WAR SURGE" GETS OUT OF HAND AGAIN.

IT'S A DRAW DOWN, NO IT'S BUSH WAR ECONOMICS 101. MARK UP AND THEN SELL THEM A MARK DOWN. 130 PLUS 40 EQAUL 170 MINUS 20 EQUAL "SUCCESS" WE, ME AND THE BOEHNER ARE WINNING.

BUSH AND THE BOEHNER, IS LIKE A DOG AND IT'S BONE.

NO AMERICA GOT SCAMMED AND SNUBBED NOT HILLARY CLINTON OR BARACK OBAMA.

JUST US BECAUSE THERE IS NO JUSTICE.

It is sad that so many people have to scrutinize these candidates to try to find any story possible. What happen is what many of us do everyday and don't think twice, or after church service and the congregation fellowships, we turn our backs to acknowledge others. So please people focus on what at stake in this election. The real issues that this country is dealing with, not at who shakes who's hand.

BIG DEAL!!!

This is a non-story...

This is the level of reporting for us to make a decision on the next leader of the Free World? What's next? Obama seen partying with Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears with his Speedos only? WTF? There are American soldiers dying in Iraq, people are losing their homes in foreclosures and all the press can feature is "oooohh so-and-so jus' dissed you-know-who...mmm child nah he dih-ent"? Please America...grow the heck up.

Any still picture can be interpreted in a million ways. Even this picture can be interpreted in a million ways depending on how the picture was introduced. If there is no video that shows the whole interaction of before and after the picture, then we shouldn't be analyzing a still picture. As a daily tribune reader I'm disgusted that some blogpost was sensationalised as headline news without any accountability for facts.

Great to see people get all huffy puffy about NOTHING!

". . . one of those things that all of a sudden it’s been blown into something that frankly just wasn’t. We’ve got lots to argue about . . ." - McCaskill

Never-the-less, thank you fellow Americans for being INVOLVED and being ready to embrace the GOOD change that Obama will bring us by way of reinforcing our most valued ideals AND by empowering us to be our very best!

Go Obama!

Obama - our next leader - even though it means being subjected to the requisite sideline boo-ing of a minority of people (those same people that can manage their lives so exceptionally, like myself, by wasting time writing little nothing comments on a little nothing story).

Regardless of our little bantering voice, thank you Obama for being our countries refreshing voice.

Obama 2008 !!!

Witch one was snubbed?

Obama Camp Makes Gains In California Ground War
Posted January 29, 2008

With a southern wind at his back, Barack Obama is surging in California. Nine days from the primary, Obama California is waging day-to-day skirmishes to take the lead from Hillary Clinton, who has so far prevailed in this state but is slowly losing ground. Over the weekend and through Monday, the Obama grassroots has been on the offensive. All day Saturday, long before the polls closed in South Carolina, Obama California held a statewide phone bank in thirteen field offices with a goal of 100,000 calls and a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Not only did volunteers make 220,000 calls but also they targeted the "decline to state" voters, who in California can participate in the Democratic Primary.

By Sunday, the Obama Campaign was holding a conference call with the press to announce the California Truth Squad, which will be quick "to respond to misleading negative attacks from the Clinton Campaign." Unless the Clintons harbor a political death wish, likely they have already set a new course, with a new tone--same as they did after Iowa. Therefore, the California Truth Squad may never muster; nevertheless, the nine pols, led by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, are ready--just as the Obama Campaign, stung, and perceiving, rightly or wrongly, that they were the object of dirty tricks at the Nevada caucuses, sent out the call nationwide for lawyers to come to South Carolina to monitor the voting. On Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle endorsed Obama and thereby brought to twenty the senator's endorsements from California newspapers (to date, Clinton and Edwards have one endorsement each). Yet more evidence that the Clintons' and their surrogates' misstatements and insinuations about Obama have backfired is this reasoning from the Chronicle editorial board in making their decision: "Especially in recent days, her [Clinton's] campaign has shown the sharp elbows that evoke the ugly underside of the Clinton years. . . ."

Now more California politicians are jumping on the Barack Express. Also Sunday, Xavier Becerra, the ranking Latino in the House of Representatives and assistant to Nancy Pelosi, announced his endorsement of Obama. Suddenly, California Latinos are coming out of the woodwork. Just before the South Carolina primary, state senate majority leader Gloria Romero was made a national co-chair of the campaign. By Monday noon, Joe Coto (chair of the CA Latino Caucus), Nicole Parra, Gilbert Cedillo and Dean Florez--all state legislators--were standing with Romero on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento to speak out, in both English and Spanish (Univision was rolling the camera), in a press conference for Obama. Why these folks didn't start campaigning last fall is the big question, but one drowned out by the bigger endorsements of the day from Ted Kennedy, his niece Caroline and Toni Morrison. Topping this good news--if such a thing is possible nine days out from primary--is the four million dollars the Obama Campaign raised online over the weekend.
...

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-camp-makes-gains-in_b_83750.html#postComment)

Wow, couldn't the Tribune post something else of real value. Let's move on to something more important, and leave the man alone.

Like Jimmydgreek said Man up Obama!!

Also Trib continues to sink into nothingness....

Finally, can the who smoked what in college questions be far behind?

Like Jimmydgreek said Man up Obama!!

Also Trib continues to sink into nothingness....

Finally, can the who smoked what in college questions be far behind?

Looks like Hillary snubbed Senator Obama. She came over to where he was and went out of her way to shake hands with all the others, but did not even try to get his attention or say hello to him.

al strap

did you mean .. Which one was snubbed ???

or

Witch 1 was snubbed !!!

now that is what I call a Freudian slip !!!

HILLARYous

We spend so much time blaming our elected officials about not focusing on the issues, but creating "non-issues" in order to deflect the attention away from their lack of substance. But in this day in age, it's time that the media step up and take responsibility for creating this vacume. To post a picture out of context and create a story around it is simply offensive. Dear Editors: Get it right or go home!

If Barack didn't snub her, he should have. Seems like a lot of other Democrats, led by Kennedy(s), Leahy, Kerry, Dowd and many more have had their fill of Bill...and by extension, Hill.

Please, please, please! What a liar! Mr. Barack Hussein Obama's whole life is a made up lie.

Let's close the door on this subject and focus on the real issues.

What next? Britney lunching with Obama and LLo with Clinton? Could we please take an election seriously, for once? Or...are you at the Trib trying to push all the Dems over towards McCain and co?

I can't believe that of all the important issues going in the world, the press is asking him to explain a possible hilary snubbing.
What the f--- is going on.
Who cares if he did or did not sub Hilary. Would that change your vote?

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She was most likely crying over that too. Politics ~ Gotta love it.

Since none of you who are criticizing Obama were there, I fail to see how you can discuss his body language etc. based on a 2 dimensional low to medium quality news photo. I think the strongly opinionated and uninformed posters see what they want to see based on their very own bias.

Chicago tribune - you should be ashamed of yourself to put this on front page of website. Try to be a newspaper instead of being a tabloid and advertisment paper.

With opinionated article like this, you guys wonder why news paper subscription is going down.

I'm cancelling my subscription to the Trib., and I'm not checking this site again. This is exactly what's wrong with the press today. This isn't news.

Like I posted before (to the headline "Obama snubs Clinton")...

"Is the Chicago Tribune a smut rag like the inquirer? This seems like "making the news" to me. It does not appear in other news venus. Nice front page journalism..."

What is up next for ameteur hour at the Tribune.

The BO-McKaskill explanation is simply not true, and is refuted in the pictures themselves, as well as being directly contradicted by Axelrod's earlier explanation.

What happened...I thought Barack said Hillary was "likeable enough" in New Hampshire?!

This, again, shows the darker side of the angelic figure the Obama-loving press have painted.

He in fact has a side to him that is petty, juvenile and small. Remind you of any current resident of Pennsylvannia Avenue?

Is this really the person who can "bridge the partisan divides" when he can't even shake her hand?

In these unguarded moments BO reflects what I have observed from a lot of the followers of his "hope" message...and that is "hate".

Throughout the Summer and Fall he portrayed Hillary as being the equivalent of Bush and Cheney, so I guess it's not so hard to understand why his followers have such animosity towards her.

I've looked all over the internet for this "perceived" snub. It appears to me that you're just making it up to get more news. Please report on "newsworthy" items. Thank you.

When i saw that this morning, my first thought was that this is so obviously a moment where Obama was either looking away already, or that during all of the commotion of the night he happened to turn away for some reason. he's not a six year old, he wouldn't turn his back and refuse to shake someone's hand or say hello because he's, "mad at them". such a lame non-issue.

anyone who thinks that is what happened is ridiculous. i'm sure if Hilary were asked, she would even acknowledge that isn't what happened. This kind of stuff will kill me if it continues in this election like in 00 and 04, cut it out.

I think its funny that every Obama backer is whining about how "This isn't news" or "This is so stupid". Well, looks like the Democrats have their choice of a woman who cries or a man who refuses to shake hands. Please help us if one of them is elected...

Suggestion, let's snub the media. Americans are getting sick and tired of the deliberate attempt to "add fuel to the fire" coverage of the Obama/Clinton candidacies. I, for one, will wait and see what the outcome of the Democractic campaigns will be. Whoever gets the nomination for the Democractic ticket should be supported because we don't want another corporate America minion nor another warmonger in the White House. Obama has his idealism and Mrs. Clinton has her pragmatism. May the best person for the future of this country and the world win. Emough is enough!

Thank god we can put this non story to bed. As expressed in this video, the coverage was enough to drive a man insane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OaG_ry5Rug

OF COURSE Obama would say it wasn't a snub. Everyone else at the SOTU thought it was a snub though, not just The Trib!

One of the problems is that on this very website they played it up as a Snub for HOURS this morning, and only now is the Tribune willing to show the other side of the story. Bias? Perhaps. I think it's more of a case of knee-jerk reaction.

RE: RB's comment

"Of course Obama's camp is going to come out and say it wasn't a snub. These are politicians, they lie all the time. Everyone knows it was a deliberate move on Barack's part. I think it was a bad move for him, especially in an event as televised as the State of the Union. This just shows his immaturity and he is not ready to lead this country."

I find it so interesting you've taken a picture and summed up what someone was thinking. Have you ever cropped a picture? Have you ever looked away when speaking to someone? What if a picture was taken whilst you sneezed or coughed while speaking to someone deemed to be important and that was caught on film? How can so many of you read so much into a picture and sum up an entire evening?

It's no wonder candidates don't take us seriously enough to care what we think, because we tend to focus on irrelevant garbage.

Thanks for all the posters who thought this article was garbage.

Since we don't have a video to show what actually happened before or after that single still-photo, how do we know whether anyone was snubbed, or if anyone indeed was snubbed, it was not actually Barack Obama who getting snubbed by a haugty condescending Hillary Clinton. Afterall she is 14 years older than he is (and as such should show more maturity in situations like this), and if she walked over to his space to shake hands with Senator Kennedy, then why could she not show her vaunted maturity, experience, and poise, by reaching out to the younger man (who alledgedly was acting in a childish manner by ignoring her), and shake his hand?

Or is this, just "...the find any reason at all to smear Barack Obama crowd..." at their usual hateful work again?

Wow, like it matters. He was just most likely being polite. In any event, their race is a close one, and Hillary has fought back hard:

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You are a moron
I'm glad to be here
Seeing the sight of you
Smelling the smell of you

You most deplorable glaring example
Of a degenerate narcotic influence
My seething hate is driving me nuts
What can I do to obliterate you

I snub you
I really hope you're one of a kind
You don't care who you brutalize
You are a bully plain and simple

You are a beast you are a pig
You've been a pig for long enough now
I'm making my move
I'm making an end to you

I snub you
And when I snub
I really snub
I snub you finally, forever

Is she really going out with him?
Now is the time
I'm playing my ate
I'll give you a mouthful you can't swallow

Unquestionably I've been lacking in taste
You're being cheerful but not for long
Your Mum and Dad they sure made a mess
You're going to look like watercress

When I snub you
He snubs you
We snub you
Dogs snub you
I snub you

Hope you enjoyed that little Iggy Pop moment.

Bill R hit the nail on the head. People where commenting this morning like a bunch of drunk dialer after a two day binge. Pat yourselves on the back for providing some pathetic posts. I snub you!!!

Boy if you need proof that ya have to have conflict in reporting and fodder for the fools, just look at the amount of posts on the last "snub" piece. At last count I saw 250 posts on something that means nothing to the American people.

Posted by: bill r. | January 29, 2008 1:32 PM

Of course Obama and Claire would say Obama did not snub Hillary. If you look at the video though the excuse Claire made is bunk as Obama turned before Claire got his attention. Obama should have just said he did not mean to snub her but the excuses and half-truths are sad and I thought he was above saying anything?

i'm glad that the majority of readers see this and other articles like it for what it is, pointless. it things like this that make us forget to look at the real issues.

People do you not understand. THis is the 1st time Obama has ever had to EARN anything in his political life. His team has eliminated all challengers before the people could even vote. THis is the 1st person he could not have taken out. He can not handle the scrutiny that is very fair by the way. It was a very childish dispaly and 100% of everyone I have talked to has said as much. Now there are people who, no matter what a candidate that they support does, will spin and defend every action. However all objective minds have said that it looked 100% like Obama was snubbing Hillary and he looked like a cry baby. THis is a man who loves to use dirty politics except when it is used on him. A prefect example is the Obamabots attacking poeople who have the audasity to bring up Mary Jo Kopechne's name. How did we ever get to a place in this country where a man who is responsible for the death of a young women would get defended by people because he supports their chosen candidate. I couldnt believe how many Obamabots were attacking all who dared to bring up the fact that Tedd Kennedy killed Mary Jo. Maybe one of the swamp reporters should do their job and go ask her family what they think of Tedd Kennedy. Not all Obama supporters feel that way but I have seen enough who should be ashamed of themselves. How is Tedd Kennedy's name ever mentioned without preceeding mention of Mary Jo Kopechne? What kind of a human being leaves a woman in the water to die and doesnt call the police until 8 hours later so noone would know that he was driving drunk? How is this just accepted? It makes me never want to visit Mass. If this is the type of person that they would vote for they must have one screwed up state. Tedd Kennedy is a murderer who only is not serving his life in prison because of his last name. Had anyone of us done that we would be in jail. However I know 99% of people would have more concern for the life of another human being than they would for their career. Tedd Kennedy is a sad walking statement of the injustice that goes on in this country. How can you Obamabots defend him?

This story is very necessary because it actually catches a true glmpse of Obama's true color. He is not fit to lead.

So Obama's defense is provided by Sen.McCaskill. The same Senator McCaskill who had no problem with the Clintons helping her with her fund raising for the Senate but then after her election stated "that she wouldn't want Bill Clinton near her daughter." What a hypocrite; take the money the Clintons helped her raise and then trash them after the checks clear.

Well now he can add lying to his other "qualities/
credentials." I'm not surprised at his excuse. Maybe we should ask Senator McCaskill her version and we might want to ask Teddy if he heard the question. Boy if he can't own up to his behavior what will he be trying to get away with should by a miracle he makes it to president.

just goes to show, you can not turst what you see / read in the paper. America needs to make up its own mind and not be influenced by the sensationalism in the US media. If you want a true report read the BBC!!!!

Sure, this means nothing at all. But why do people care at all? Perhaps it's for the same reason people keep tabs on Britney Spears - we have a habit of majoring in minors while forgetting things that actually matter. Of course, politics has become a spectator sport, like football or keeping tabs on Tom Cruise - hence, the continuing popularity of radio talk shows, which focus on trivia while dumbing down the political scene further than it already is.

The BO-McKaskill explanation is simply not true, and is refuted in the pictures themselves, as well as being directly contradicted by Axelrod's earlier explanation.

What happened...I thought Barack said Hillary was "likeable enough" in New Hampshire?!

This, again, shows the darker side of the angelic figure the Obama-loving press have painted.

He in fact has a side to him that is petty, juvenile and small. Remind you of any current resident of Pennsylvannia Avenue?

Is this really the person who can "bridge the partisan divides" when he can't even shake her hand?

In these unguarded moments BO reflects what I have observed from a lot of the followers of his "hope" message...and that is "hate".

Throughout the Summer and Fall he portrayed Hillary as being the equivalent of Bush and Cheney, so I guess it's not so hard to understand why his followers have such animosity towards her.

As a subcriber to the Chicago Tribune and someone that reads your site regularly, I am disappointed that you chose this nonstory to be news worthy. I use Google News a lot to read the news from a lot of other sources such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, etc. and the Trib was the only paper that chose to make something out of nothing.

Don't try to cover the same thing that bloggers report on because it hurts your credibility when you are wrong. There are people out there that believe every word printed on your website as if it is the gospel and will believe the misinterpretation of events as a fact. If Hillary or Obama wins the primaries let them win from their merits, not from a bogus news story that should have never made it past the editor's desk.

It is interesting how everything OBAM does is not important, gee maybe we should ask him about his minister and spiritual leader's connection with Louis Farrakhan.
This probably wont make the comments, so far nothing I have sent has shown up, but at least the blog owner gets to read them.

How is this news? Aren't there more pressing issues in politics or anything for that matter than this? Printing or posting this stuff makes you no better than some cheap gossip site. Newspapers are supposed to report on substantive issues with objectivity and a level of scrutiny that sets them apart as authoritative publications. That stories like this are printed may reflect why people have stopped coming to newspapers for their "news."

Here's another angle of the same shot. Does it still look like a snub?

http://blogs.trb.com/news/politics/blog/Clinton%20greets%20Kennedy%20with%20Obama%20turned.jpg

So this morning his guy Axelrod claims Obama deliberately turned to give Hillary and Kennedy a moment and relieve the awkwardness. Now Obama's saying he turned because someone called him.

Right. He snubbed her.

good job obama! i don't even like democrats, but i have respect for anyone who shows up a clinton! you're getting my vote now

If Obama did "snub" HRC it is a big story. Why...because Mr. Obama says we all must come to the table with our enemies...he has constantly nailed the gay community on that issue. And yet...he will not even shake HRC's hand? To me actions speak so much louder than words. Obama tends to be sort of passive aggressive in his jabs at HRC and says he doesn't do dirty politics...I would feel better if he occassionally took a stance and stood his ground.

Oh well.....think he is turning out to be a lot of smoke and mirrors. Look at his support for Stroger and Bagovnonsense.....

I was surprised to see you give this photo so much attention, but shocked by your over-the-top interpretation. You are losing credibilty!

Even as I type this, the evening news is on, with the commentator saying "Did he snub her?" Barack Obama has WAY TOO MUCH CLASS to childishly snub someone, even someone who has tried to deviously run HIM down! People are going to believe what they WANT to believe!! Just like yesterday morning on CSPAN an obviously caucasian woman(from Alabama) called in spouting that Muslim stuff. The caller said " I don't see how anyone can support Obama... he's a Muslim...he won't wear a flag pin, etc....etc. The host said "That's been proven to not be true" and this IGNORANT woman says, "Oh, yes it is! I read the book!'' For some of these people, if God HIMSELF came down and said it, they STILL would believe what they're ranting and raving about because of their PREJUDICE!!! Might as well TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!! For those of you that this applies to: If, when you die, you find out that God and Jesus aren't WHITE, you'd probably rather spend eternity in HELL, WOULDN"T you??

If you really want to see something interesting, try to hurry up and view the photo the Sun Times has of obama under the "SUPER TUESDAY SURGE" headline on their homepage. He's standing with one of his trademark "CHANGE" posters in front of him. When they cropped the photo, they cropped the C and the E in the word change, leaving it to say "HANG."

It was a snub indeed. And, this is the man that is supposed to bring the nation together? NOBama

Much ado about nothing.

There are some very smart people who contribute to the Swamp as regularly as a Tribune reporter (Conservative, Liberal, and Independent) who usually have some very smart things to say, even if I do not agree with them.

One thing I have noticed today however is that nearly every village idiot is on the loose and posting on the Swamp. These people are so concerned about a supposed snub, or that Obama is lying when he said he waived.

The REAL PROBLEM is the level of collective intelligence these village idiots have - that is something to be worried about, after all they will be voting and having children and yet can even think.

He should have stood up strong and said " I absolutely snubbed her, I cant stand her either". Probably what he thought

Dumb comments abound.

rHere we go again, with the media brewing up conflict where there is none. I do hope the media will give as much attention to THIS story, following its own concocted versions of the non-event. Thank you, Sen. McCaskill! I'm not even a Democrat, so I don't care, but fair is fair. Even if Obama was not responding to someone else (McCaskill), I know I would have done the same thing as he, --out of deference to clinton-kennedy, and to avoid the impression of attempting to hear their conversation. And people, stop using this blog to vent all your other nonsense, stick to the subject or sign off! thanks

..err...Me thought there was only one woman candidate in this race!!
The way to go, Obama girl!!
LOL

Dear God, make the maddness stop!
Are we covering a presidential election campaign or a sandbox squabble?

ENOUGH ALREADY!

ok what's with the bozo who keeps posting saying "Barack Hussein Obama"? If you insist on using his full name, then use Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
Are you trying to get people to subconsciously associate him with Saddam by using a common name? How absurd, and pathetic. Just like the big deal people are making over a non-event. Can we please focus on the issues facing our country, not petty BS like a supposed snub?

Hi Fellow statemen,

Do not be swayed by any mediocre acting like a well breded jounalist, like the type we have showing Human natural behaviour which he and his cronice are not qualify to diwminate or interprete.

It just shows how few jounalists can be as wasteful in our society, istead of covering good news and carrying out their profession dilligently they go down so stupidly all because they were looking for their increase in sales of their papers and very hapy to grab Non news evet like the picture of an Hon0rable man who was only doing what he felt at a particular time as he needed to act. What is the big deal here?

IOt is only this photograher that can make a big deal from this as there is nothing great in this and should be discarded into Obliviom.

As such, what i will enjoy the photograher in question is to be less a Catalyst of a bad works in a verry decent society.

Let now focus on more inetresting developments in our caucuses and see how people of great thinking are swarming to embrace Obama's Slogan of Real Changes. That is far more news. Yes We can, O yes we can be part of the macinery of Real changes and not a Fluke promise of change that never was during the last 8 years.

Long Live Amwerican Democrats, Long Live Independents and Long Live Converted Republican.

Hillary playing games. she didnt want to shake obama hand , she was way to far away for that . ted even had to reach for the shake.

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Gosh, I just loved wtaching Ted Kennedy b__slap Hillary in his endorsement speech for Obama.

GO, TEDDY!

Obama, you are sooooo immmature. childish petty etc etc

Grow up! Pr at least grow some balls.

Now compare the above picture to what really happen. You can see by looking at the attached picture that Senator Obama was honestly conversing with Senator McCaskill and Senator Clinton was shaking Senator Kennedy's hand.

Why would she lie about having her hand extended for Senator Obama when that clearly did not happen?

Did the Clinton campaign start that picture being distributed to the media?

To view the correct picture of what happen click the link below.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/29/obama-i-didnt-snub-clinton/