Reply #17: I agree with much of this essay... Obama should have been aware [View All]

[featherman]

that the press was watching and waiting intensely to see what type of an exchange the two would make after such a dramatic day. A short greeting and smiling exchange would have been the smart move even if it was true that at that moment he was distracted and talking to McCaskill. A good politician would have entered the room with a plan to make sure the smoothing over greeting occurred.

Rightly or wrongly, of such moments campaigns sometimes hinge and it was not a good moment for my guy.

I guess we'll see what legs it has and how deeply it penetrates the voting public in general rather than just the politically obsessed.