(CNSNews.com) - An Ohio man says former President Clinton elbowed him in the face after a Sunday campaign rally in Canton, Ohio.
The man told Cybercast News Service that he has not ruled out taking legal action against the former president.
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Holeman told Cybercast News Service Monday he had shouted "Obama" a few times during the rally at Timken High School in Canton, before he got a chance to get close enough to the ex-president to deliver a message.
"When I finally got up to him," said Holeman, "I stopped him, to shake his hand, and I said, 'Mr. President, it's really unbecoming of you to be name-calling and bickering. You're about to tear the whole Democratic Party apart.'" Listen to Audio
Holeman said Clinton reacted angrily.
"I was telling him things, then all of the sudden he just went ballistic on me - 'Where were you in Iowa? You weren't there when Obama said these things about Hillary. Hillary took all these things. They tore Hillary apart here and here and here, there,'" Holeman said.
Holeman said he responded calmly to the former president.
"Sir, it's how you're acting," Holeman said he told Clinton. "You're the ex-president of the United States. She's the elder stateswomen of the United States. The example(s) that you are supposed to be setting are supposed to be leadership qualities. You're doing what the Republican Party would do to tear us apart. You're doing that within our own party, and he just went on."
It was then that Holeman said the former president elbowed him in the face.
"Somewhere along in the conversation," Holeman said, "he reached through the crowd and like gestured - like bumped me in my face with his elbow, as he was reaching for somebody, and that seemed to get my attention. But not in the way [it did when] the Secret Service man took his elbow out of my face - that got more of my attention."
Holeman interpreted it as a deliberate gesture by Clinton.
"(That got me) to think," said Holeman. "Why would he put his elbow in my face like that?' Cause I thought it was just him going for somebody else, but when the man actually took his elbow out of my face, I kind of figured it was his gesture to say, just sort of move on, get out of my way, or whatever."