Look, watch the video and it's pretty obvious. He paused. He wiped off his shoulders and the bottom of his shoes.
The man is very thin-skinned, and immature. Let's hope he can grow up in time for Denver, November. A young petulant candidate will not look pretty attacking a 72-year-old war hero.
Everyone else has laughed off this supposed controversy. We dealt with this prior to the Pennsylvania primary. Here is a video showing he used two fingers and scratched his face. This is silly. And any person who is not trying to cause controversy to promote a candidate recognizes that. The only reason you keep bringing it up is in an effort to goad people to overreact and drive away serious Clinton supporters from Obama.
You have a choice: you can engage in a serious discussion or you can try to stir up controversy. If you choose the latter, I assure that when Obama becomes the nominee you will be marginalized. There have been unfair negative attacks against Clinton, mostly by the media, but also by Obama supporters. And due to that many Obama supporters are making a serious effort to reach out to Clinton supporters. Your effort to create false controversies is an obvious attempt to deter that. I won't let you without pointing out the patheticness of your charge. Honestly whose acting like a child: Obama or you?
But believe your lyin eyes.
LATimes called it a "one-fingered salute!"
Unity!
I can tell you that the credibility of the L.A. times in this city has been in serious question for a couple of years now. But let's say that's a credible source, can you not see that other finger? Is it possible that people are cheering about what he said and not his gesture? At some point you have stop manufacturing controversies and deal with issues. This is life-and-death. People will die from the wars that McCain wants to fight and the only serious opponent that he is going to have is Barack Obama. So, you can scour the internet for false rumors or you can join our effort to end this massive failure of the Bush administration. It's up to you.
is indeed life-and-death. I am very worried about how Obama acts under pressure.
it 'proves' he had two fingers (you do see two fingers there) you also see the whole hall react because they SAW one finger.
How slick.
I think that Obama has remembered the tricks he probably learned in high school.. and the rhetorical techniques to look 'cool' to his youngish preferred audience.
But.... is it Presidential?
NO!
the words he used? I know I liked that speech. I liked how he ridiculed the media for focusing on the inane, while dismissing the important issues. People have cheered at his events without any gestures. Possibly people, are listening to him and agreeing with him? Something like 17 million people.
