The front page of Monday's New York Times led off a story with the following sentence: "In retrospect, even Charlie Crist admits that “the optics” of The Hug are not great."
Florida Governor Charlie Crist's embrace of President Obama at a Ft. Myers rally in February of this year has officially been dubbed "The Hug." Crist's primary opponent for the GOP nomination for Florida's open U.S. Senate Seat, Marco Rubio, has used The Hug to fuel grassroots discontent with Crist and his "embrace" of President Obama and his stimulus plan.
"The Hug" isn't the first of its kind though. Here are just 10 Famous Hugs in American Politics:
