Guess you've never spent time overseas in a business climate. What do you expect? Some fat, unwashed, tattooed, pierced, dope smoking unshaven biker from LA?
Maybe you'd be happier if he weighed 300 pounds, had a McDonald's Big Mac box full of the creme sauce dripping his pant leg.
I've worked with dozens of European Managing Directors for Texaco, Seagrams, Wyeth-Ayerst, Glaxo Smith-Kline Beecham. They were all gracious and NOT FAT.
Further, most spoke more than four languages, including English.
Every worked in Lucerne Switzerland?
American people who have never traveled have no clue as to how we look like myopic, moronic idiots.
Every European doesn't look like this guy. C'mon Cobra. Lighten up.
What's your problem? Did you go searching for threads to harass people? Get over yourself.
I got the impression that the main thing altura was referring to was his somewhat extravagant arm gestures and how out of place they appear for someone sitting next to the president in the Oval Office during the ordinarily sedate photo op where everyone else I've seen in that chair sits quietly, smiles, and shakes the president's hand.