VA Gov Greets Obama With A Golf Glove?

Michael Scherer reports that Virginia Governor and Republican Vice Presidential hopeful Bob McDonnell greeted President Barack Obama on the tarmac with a left-handed Wilson glove inscribed with his state’s tourism and travel slogan, “Virginia is for lovers.”

Obama had come to Virginia for a visit to a Rolls Royce manufacturing plant, where the president promoted his plan for a $1 billion manufacturing research initiative which is unlikely to be funded by Republicans in Congress. When presented with the glove, Obama smiled, but did not take the gift from McDonnell. That task was left to a White House aide after Obama had left McDonnell to go work a rope line of supporters.

From a distance, the encounter looked friendly. But then McConnell was not entirely joking when he pointed out that Obama’s golf game has become a focus of Republican opposition researchers.