Reply #39: It's the "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice..." aspect that [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

carries some meaning for me. It is being spun to hell against Obama but it is a self inflicted wound. All he really needed to do was put on his check list for that night "Say hello to Hillary" and the news cycle would still be overwhelmingly positive to him today. He could have seen this coming and taken a simple preventive step to make sure he could not be dinged over this. And though I greatly respect the poster above, no, it would not have been "just as easy" for Hillary to tap someone who just turned his back on her (even if it was unintentional and coincidental but only "looked" intentional at the time) on the shoulder in order to get him to shake her hand.