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No Fist Bump Snub

Reports yesterday that Barack Obama snubbed a child who requested a fist bump with (from?) the likely Dem nom were, apparently, erroneous.

ABC News PA staffers provided this transcript of the fist bump convo, relayed to On Call by NBC/NJ's Athena Jones:

On Obama's way out of the Zanesville, OH, classroom after signing autographs for students on their drawings/scrap paper...

Child: Can you sign my hand?

Obama: If I start that… plus Mom might not be happy when she comes home. She'll be like "What is the dirt on your hand?"… See ya…

Child: Can you sign it in pen so it will come off?

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Obama: If I start that… plus Mom might not be happy when she comes home. She'll be like "What is the dirt on your hand?"

What he really wanted to say is "If I start that, I have to do it for everybody."

The next time a kid says "sign my hand," sign his damn hand. Think of it as a temporary tattoo.

Wow the whole newsroom must have been atwitter with that little gem.

Here we go; the media doesn't have Hillary Clnton to kick around, so now its Obama time.

I propose calling this scandal Bumpgate. It will go down in the history books.

"Liberal media" strikes again. Always ready to believe those blacks are trying to hide their terrorist tendencies.