Obama and Hillary Clinton need to keep their hands to their selves

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[dubyadiprecession]

1. Someone call the police already!!

This is a much bigger problem than we were led to believe!

[Ilsa]

2. OMG! Real humans with compassion running for office!

I'd take a hug from either of them plus Joe.

[pnwmom]

3. I don't see either of them coming up on someone from behind and planting a surprise kiss

on their heads.

Or laying a hand on the thigh of someone who's just shared a story of her rape at the age of 13.

[bigbrother05]

4. Or barging into the Miss Teen dressing room because he "owns" it

There are boundary issues and then there's just sleaze.

[louis c]

10. Donald Trump thanks you for your comment...

...and Lucy Flores' too.

[pnwmom]

12. Donald Trump didn't make Biden overly touchy-feely. This has been an open secret for decades

and it's better for Biden to have learned something now so he can alter his behavior.

[loyalsister]

19. Donald Trump is even more grateful

for the benefit of the doubt he got when his allies placed his behavior on a continuum which they minimized based on legitimacy of the women's ccomplaints. And even more for the response of empathy from people who looked past the women to minimize his behavior as locker room talk. The kind that is so common among men that they feared their own lives could be ruined if their ordinary and innocent histories were revealed.
The claimed victimization of and perceived threat to social dominance is not limited by partisanship because the challenge to the long standing power structure inspires fear of a loss of superiority of members of the top tier no matter their philosophy. It's an endless struggle in a social hierarchy. When an oppressed group is recognized as relevant the oppressive element fears loss. A local anti-war, progressive on most counts group has difficulty with getting support from women because it is run by a unashamed misogynistic guy and his MRA son.

[sagetea]

14. I just can't keep quiet anymore...

The man that kidnapped me at 16 (he was 34) ran his hand up the inside of my thigh. I was his waitress. The man that rescued me from him, hugged me and sighed a sigh of relief in my hair (at 17). there is a difference between gross and compassion. Maybe people should learn the difference. Just sayin'!


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[nini]

17. Sorry about your experience

but it is a perfect way to explain the differences between compassion/caring and unwanted contact.

[FreeState]

15. Agreed

and all the people here making excuses make me sick.

No one has the right to touch anyone without there permission, how hard is that to understand?

[samnsara]

5. Well we know few people who need to stay away from theses touchy feely people..

...cuz O MY you may get hugged.

[Tipperary]

8. Yes we do lol.

People apparently think it is ok to threaten violence if touched. President Obama is lucky he did not meet up with one of those people!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Obama's coming for your kids!!!1!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. Love these......there is a difference here........

Humans touch.

[Karadeniz]

9. Heartwarming...guess some people just can't take niceness.

[LakeArenal]

11. Imagine if Princess Di refused to touch people.

That’s what we loved about her.

[PatSeg]

13. Those picture bring tears to my eyes

I especially love seeing Obama with children, such a tender, loving man.

[MadDAsHell]

16. They probably got consent.

It's not that hard; get consent.

[loyalsister]

20. Exactly

We don't have the dialogue or awareness of non verbal interactions preceeding the photos.

I certainly doubt that they picked babies up out of their strollers or pulled them out of the parent's arms without asking.

[Cha]

18. Looks spontaneous to me!

Good on people reaching out and comforting kids and peeps of all ages!