Did Barack Obama Flip Off Hillary Clinton? [Obscene gesture with kids present in '08]

newsbusters ^ | 4/18/2008 | Matthew Sheffield

[Mygirlsmom]

oops. just noticed the article was from 2008

[chooseascreennamepat]

I am reminded of the line in “Blazing Saddles” from the old lady who expressed her angst with “Up yours...”

I say the same to 0.

[silverleaf]

the MEdia didn’t mention it because they were too busy sniggering behind their mikes and cameras

remember the audience sniggering when he took Palin’s hocky mom quote about pitbulls in lipstick and called her a a “pig”?

[originalbuckeye]

And to John McCain, too. His supporters thought he was really clever! They were laughing and guffawing. I KNEW then how immature he was/is and continues to be. The Leftys I spoke with parroted him saying he ‘was just scratching his nose, cheek or whatever’. They were all willing dupes for the Narcissist in Chief.

[Grizzled Bear]

And - even if he loses in November - he will emulate other liberal past-presidents, like clinton and carter, crisscrossing the country charging exhorbitant speaking fees while continuing his class-warfare rhetoric and becoming a community organizer on steriods.

For all of his repugnancy, Clinton is a "likeable rogue." He has a talent for playing his charisma to his advantage.

Jimmy Carter is a useful idiot. He's happy to be a tool for the anti semites, jihadists and communists.

Obama has no charisma, outside media manipulation. He's too arrogant to be a useful tool. His own base will get tired of him very quickly.

[Grizzled Bear]

The “stealth finger” has always struck me as a cowards gesture. If you’re going to do it, at least have the intestinal fortitude to do it overtly.

Any grown man (or woman) who does this is nothing more than a pathetic child feebly playing childish games in an alleged grown up body.

[tsomer]

Of course, there's always a possibility that the middle finger gesture was all too well thought out, both against Clinton and against McCain, as though to say, "I make this gesture that you will subliminally understand as conveying contempt and disgust," but I doubt it was as juvenile as the article says.

Call it the 'cloaked bird' gesture. I think it is an intentional, well rehearsed-- more like a signal to his supporters--perhaps learned in college or in Chicago.

This is a hypothesis. If anyone knows of similar examples of this gesture by other rabble-rousers I'd appreciate a link.

I almost admire (and I can't believe I'm saying this) 'bam's facility at dissimulation . He's a true craftsman in this respect. But I haven't paid much attention to his "non-verbal" speech, until now.

His words mean almost nothing. Maybe his gestures tell more. This mud-hole runs deep.

[FrankR]

I agree...but he’ll try, nonetheless.

[Grizzled Bear]

>i>Call it the 'cloaked bird' gesture. I think it is an intentional, well rehearsed-- more like a signal to his supporters--perhaps learned in college or in Chicago.

It's a nonverbal plea for a piece of lumber to the kisser.