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Chris Christie Denies Hugging Obama After Hurricane Sandy
Breitbart ^ | February 4, 2016 | by Charlie Spiering

Posted on 02/04/2016 7:27:33 AM PST by COUNTrecount

In New Hampshire yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie repeated to voters that he did not hug President Obama after Hurricane Sandy.

"Yeah, no, I've got to tell you, I can't disappoint you all enough, I didn't hug him," Christie said during a New Hampshire town hall according to Time's Zeke Miller. And as you all have learned in New Hampshire, I hug everybody. So it was a disappointment probably for him that I didn't hug him."

The New Jersey governor has worked for years to dispel the notion that he hugged Obama when the president came to New Jersey - even though conservatives were infuriated that he rhetorically embraced the president when he visited the damage in his state caused by Hurricane Sandy.

In 2013, Christie also denied hugging the president - he shook Obama's hand after he landed at the airport and Obama put his hand on the governor's shoulder.

"It was a handshake like you would shake hands with anyone," he said. "It was a perfectly natural, casual, normal type of greeting between two people. And you know, it's become legend."

Christie argued then that people who believed the "hug" legend "conflated my kind remarks about the president with the picture" making it "more of a metaphor than an actuality."

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1 posted on 02/04/2016 7:27:33 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

A living Weeble!


2 posted on 02/04/2016 7:29:27 AM PST by petercooper (All the world's problems are caused by the sandrats, hoodrats, gimmedats, democrats and commiecrats.)
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3 posted on 02/04/2016 7:29:36 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Don’t believe your lying eyes.


4 posted on 02/04/2016 7:30:45 AM PST by Calpublican
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To: COUNTrecount

Obviously Photoshopped. Including his fat self.


5 posted on 02/04/2016 7:30:58 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: COUNTrecount

He didn’t deny it back in 2014

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/31/christie-defends-obama-bear-hug-after-hurricane-sandy/


6 posted on 02/04/2016 7:31:25 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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7 posted on 02/04/2016 7:31:30 AM PST by jimbo123
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8 posted on 02/04/2016 7:31:52 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: petercooper

That was 130 pounds ago. Fahgeddabouit.


9 posted on 02/04/2016 7:31:56 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: COUNTrecount

That’s a harder picture to live down than Glenn Beck’s crying .gif.


10 posted on 02/04/2016 7:32:17 AM PST by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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To: COUNTrecount; All

Chrstie: “Who are you going to believe? Me, or your own lying eyes?”


11 posted on 02/04/2016 7:32:47 AM PST by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: COUNTrecount
Christie was too fat to hug.
12 posted on 02/04/2016 7:34:19 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: COUNTrecount

Well, I was about to ask if, “wasn’t there a picture of him doing it”... But this is right next to it ;^)

I think there is a pic of him hugging somewhere out there..


13 posted on 02/04/2016 7:34:27 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: notdownwidems

New Jersey values??? ;-)


14 posted on 02/04/2016 7:34:31 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: COUNTrecount

I’m sure he hugged him, but I don’t remember seeing it. What I do remember is the two of them strolling in a lovers embrace down the beach as Christie stared up at barry like a lovestruck teenage girl.


15 posted on 02/04/2016 7:35:08 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: TornadoAlley3; Lazamataz

ROTFLMAO!

I was thinking the same thing.


16 posted on 02/04/2016 7:35:40 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: COUNTrecount
"ebony and ivory

live together in perfect harmony

side by side on my piano

keyboard oh lord why don't we"


17 posted on 02/04/2016 7:36:37 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Did you get down on your knees and pucker your lips?
Because figuratively it sure seems like it Mr. Christie.
Vote for me because I am not as bad as a Communist or felon.
How reassuring. Romney and McCain do-over.


18 posted on 02/04/2016 7:38:01 AM PST by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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To: COUNTrecount

OK... maybe technically not a hug, but if they were any closer Reggie would get jealous.


19 posted on 02/04/2016 7:39:52 AM PST by ken in texas
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To: COUNTrecount

What’s the difference between Christie and the lying POS? The lying POS isn’t fat!


20 posted on 02/04/2016 7:40:01 AM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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