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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Picture of the Day - 3



(Senator Barack Obama bumps fists with his wife Michelle before his speech at his South Dakota and Montana presidential primary election night rally in St. Paul, Minnesota June 3, 2008. (REUTERS/Eric Miller))

posted by mikevotes at 8:18 AM

8 Comments:

  • I saw that moment when it happened and just loved it.

    Somehow I think Hillary and Bill were making fists last night, too. ;-)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:07 AM  

  • A partnership on a different plane than The Clintons™ partnership. To me there is an authenticity, a groundedness, with the Obamas that make Bill and Hillary look like a televangelist couple asking for "love offerings."

    By Blogger -epm, at 9:30 AM  

  • I thought it was a good moment, too, although, I found it interesting culturally, or maybe generationally. I hardly imagine it from Bob and Liddy Dole.

    It was a real moment of "team" though from the two of them, wasn't it?

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:37 AM  

  • Putting my snarkiness aside, I was actually thinking of the Al and Tipper kiss.... and how different this was.

    I think you've hit on something with the generational-cultural differences, too. I'm not thinking of African-American cultural, but the culture of a younger generation.

    By Blogger -epm, at 10:44 AM  

  • Yeah. That's what I meant.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 11:03 AM  

  • epm, Gore and Tipper's kiss is a great comparison. It underscores how genuine this understated moment of team as Mike put it seems.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:56 PM  

  • I dunno. It just seemed to me to contain a very different relationship than the doting wife letting her husband kiss her after he won.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:19 PM  

  • I wasn't questioning the sincerity of the Gore Kiss. However, I'm seeing, as Mike suggested, I different relationship in the Obamas. There is a dimension of true peer-partnership here that, to me, transcends a simple, parochial marriage. Very 21st century.

    Originally I was snarking on the Clintons' relationship, which I do find has more than a whiff of being politically convenient and contrived. I'm not bashing them. It works for them. Great. But I find it forced at times in public to the point of reminding me of an infomercial team or a televangelist solicitation for the prayer hotline and love offering. ("Go to www.hillary.com and make a love offering, if you truly believe").

    By Blogger -epm, at 2:16 PM  

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