Hillary Clinton Takes On This Handshake Stuff

I find all this worry about handshaking to be baffling. Presidents have shook hands with all kinds of characters over the years.

Handshakes can be symbolic of course, which means that the symbols have to kept under control, as Obama did, by shaking hands in the context an international forum where national leaders meet on an equal footing. To overemphasize and harp upon phantasmagorical meanings that aren't there betrays the deepest insecurity.