Posted on 06/30/2009 6:11:04 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Professor Paul Rahe follows up on his post "Obama's gestures":
Just under three weeks ago, I wrote a Power Line post drawing attention to a photograph released by the White House, showing President Obama nonchalantly leaning back in his chair with his feet on the desk, the soles of his shoes clearly visible while speaking on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In that post, I noted that some in the Israeli press interpreted the release of the photograph as an expression of contempt intended for Arab consumption, inspired by the hurling of a shoe at President Bush in Baghdad some months back. I listed a number of occasions on which Barack Obama demonstrated his mastery of the insulting gesture,The White House has released a series of photographs in which, as the Drudge Report puts it, Obama directed "the evil eye" at various foreign leaders who visited him. Included on the list were German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
I take this, therefore, as an occasion for repeating what I wrote on that earlier occasion: "If we are to comprehend what is going on, we must pay close attention not only to what Obama says but to what he conveys in other ways. His tone is nearly always moderate but what he hints at and what he intimates by way of body language often convey the opposite. Witness his warm embrace of Hugo Chavez. Behind the thin veneer of politeness, there is, I suspect, something ugly lurking. In the first of the autobiographies that he claims to have written, Barack Obama frequently speaks of himself as being in the grips of rage. We would do well to take him at his word."
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I thought this was going to be about his limp wrists.
Yes, indeed. It’s very noticeable. And we owe yet another debt of thanks to Drudge for pointing out “Obama’s evil eye.” No one else with a large readership like Drudge has been doing this as well as he has.
Interesting read.
He is angrier than his wife; he just has been better at the bamboozle.
To this, let me add the obvious: President Obama communicated in a similar fashion his contempt for those in Iran who long for democracy by quickly expressing his confidence in the Islamic Republic's leadership in the wake of the massive demonstrations against the ostentatious ballot-box stuffing that took place in that country's recent presidential election. It was only when John McCain's eloquent denunciation of the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan evoked a strong public response within the United States that, in a hastily organized press conference, President Obama deigned to criticize Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cronies.
They are both pretty d**ned good at it.
We must arise for our very freedom...for our very right to live without the oversight of Obama!
he is a pig and many are aware
He is ringing all the bells! He might not be the "One" but he clearly will be disappointed if he isn't!
Just a thought!
Let me know your thoughts...
Yes, I’d forgotten about the time he gave hillary the finger.
Then, on the other side, there was his famous bow to the Saudi monarch. And what no one else seems to have noticed—that in many of the photos of him with Queen Elizabeth, he is standing closer to the camera than she is, with his back turned toward her—a sign of disrespect and contempt.
That was in the early news releases. I’ve just googled around and can’t find any of those photos now. I guess they’ve been weeded out.
Most folks would let bygones be bygones...but Barky seems intent on having all insults hit home.
Weird guy that one...bordering on evil (maybe a good bit over the border actually)!
Most educated black people drop that junior high get-whitey gesture long before they reach their 40s. Not these two.
In this information age, I don't believe he'll last very long before it catches up with him. Better men, better souls have paid the ultimate price for doing right. obama is working the other side, the dark side. I don't know how, but it will catch up with obama.
I hope and pray that you are right!!!
If he is not “the beast”, he’s missing the best chance the world has ever seen. We won’t even talk about his “controller” Soros yet.
This man is one extremely rude SOB.
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