The Trail
Copyright 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 3:11 PM

By Jonathan Weisman COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- During Barack Obama's visit to a Christian social service organization in Appalachian Ohio yesterday, the presumptive Democratic nominee appeared to shy away from a fist bump proffered by an exuberant young boy. But the Obama campaign is trying to beat back that narrative, filed in a pool report from the tour and widely picked up elsewhere. That's not how it was, campaign aides say -- and forget any notion that he was cowed by a Fox News broadcaster calling his famous fist bump with wife Michelle last month a "terrorist fist jab." Turns out, according to a tape of the event, the boy was asking Obama to autograph his outstretched fist, not bump it, jab it, or anything else. Here is the actual exchange, as reported by the campaign: