Hug Interrupted

By Kleinheider Posted on August 19, 2008 at 6:06 am

The LA Times reports on an uncomfortable moment between Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton:

Well, today on the very same stage in Espanola, New Mexico, there stood the defeated Democratic senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, dutifully campaigning as promised for Obama. And right there too was Richardson.

Clinton said all the right things all right. She smiled. She waHillary Clinton and Bill Richardson share a pushug, an embrace that looks like a hug but really isn’tved. She thanked her longtime friend Richardson, albeit simply for “being here today.”

But some Clinton supporters may detect a different message in the body language of the aborted hug between Richardson, who started to put both his arms around his former friend, and Hillary Clinton who seemed to pull back.

We’re going to call it a pushug, an embrace that looks like a hug for appearance’s sake but carries no intimacy or friendship whatsoever.

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