Rep. Engel: Obama didn't snub me!
“I was very surprised when I was told afterwards, ‘The president walked by you,’” Engel told NBC News on Wednesday. “He shook my hand with his left hand.”
“I was very shocked when they said to me that he walked by me, because he didn’t,” the congressman said.
Indeed, video coverage of the president’s procession down the aisle did cut to a shot that blocked the view of both men’s hands just as the president passed Engel – making it look to everyone at home as though Obama passed Engel by and left him to exchange a few words with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
To Engel, his quick squeeze with the president remains all about the voters in the district where he’s lived since he was 12 years old.
“The frosting on the cake is my constituents enjoy it,” Engel said. “I found that when I did it initially, which was a total fluke, I found people in my district coming up to me saying, ‘I saw you on TV, you were great, I saw you with the president.”
And on the way out, Obama stopped and signed a campaign poster for Engel.
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