Obama’s Obscene Gesture Is a Top Story at Fox News
By SusanUnPC on April 18, 2008 at 12:54 PM in ABC News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pennsylvania, Qualifications
(Click on the image to see the full screenshot. Or go to Fox’s home page and to the story, excerpted below.)
DID OBAMA GIVE A ‘FLIP’ RESPONSE TO CLINTON ATTACKS?
Just when you thought the Democratic race couldn’t get uglier, Barack Obama is being accused of giving Hillary Clinton the finger at a town hall meeting in North Carolina. …
Fox News’s Embed blog has more: “Clinton To Obama: Stop Whining About Debate.”
Here’s more from the Fox News story (click here to read the full story as well as to view Fox News’s image and its own video of the gesture):
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Bloggers were quick to note that as the Illinois senator scolded his Democratic rival for her performance at the debate, he raised his right hand and scratched his cheek with one finger. That finger.
“This is one of those political moments that really needs few words,” wrote the Los Angeles Times in a blog. “He’ll no doubt deny it later, but that mischievous smile seems to confirm plenty. And the crowd sure sees something.”
Obama started his address in Raleigh, N.C., by complaining that the debate on ABC “set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people.”
Then he lumped Clinton in with the ABC moderators, who he said were playing “gotcha games.”
“And I’d say Senator Clinton looked in her element,” he said. He paused. Then he raised his right hand and scratched his cheek with his middle finger. He smiled slightly, and the crowd cheered.
The cheers, of course, could have been for his verbal jab at Clinton.
Obama’s campaign denied the gesture was anything more than a harmless face scratch.
But some bloggers said otherwise.
“Talk about no class: Barack Obama gives Hillary the middle finger,” read one headline on Redstate.com.
“Obama gives Hillary the finger,” reads a post on YouTube.
“Obama fingers a ‘gotcha’ debate,” the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp blog slyly intimated.
Clinton herself has made no mention of the incident, other than to say Obama should stop whining.
In an interview with Fox 29 in Philadelphia, Clinton said of her Democratic opponent, “I know he spent all day yesterday complaining about the hard questions he was asked. Being asked tough questions in a debate is nothing like the pressures you face inside the White House.”
“I’ve been through, what, 23 of these debates?” she said. “As I recall, I was asked some pretty tough questions in nearly every one of them.”
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See all of Hillary Clinton’s remarks this morning in our earlier post here at No Quarter.
Check out our links to other mainstream news outlets — including the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, and Chicago Tribune — covering Obama’s “gesture.”
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Special thanks to MBolack for the link.
Check out MBolack’s latest story here at No Quarter: Barack’s True Beliefs: Those to Which He “Clings” and “Clings” and “Clings.”
And there’s MBolack’s must-read piece, as thorough a collection of essential information on Barack Obama as you’ll find anywhere: “Barack ‘I-Didn’t-Know’ Obama.”



















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