You’re all Insane. I can’t stand anyone in this mess, but I scratch with my middle finger too.
Good thing he doesn’t have an eye twitch or he’s likely to be accused of winking at his interns or maybe accused of having the hots for Hitlery.
Wow ... maybe you should work for the Obama campaign... Sounds like you can make good excuses for him.
Ok, so you scratch with your middle finger. Lots of people do. It’s an unconscious thing.
But the point is, Obama doesn’t scratch with his middle finger. If that was his habit, we’d have seen it before. Unless you’re accustomed to it, it’s awkward and unnatural to extend that finger and keep the other ones down at the same time—coincidentally, at the same time it serves as the perfect punctuation.
Besides, he’s spent half his life being groomed for the cameras. He’s media-prepped and practiced, and is unlikely to have made such a move accidentally. IMHO, this was a scripted speech right down to the hand gestures.
They are grasping at straws. It’s amazing.
I thought this would be much ado about nothing until I watched the video.
The timing of the “scratch” with his remark about Clinton, followed by several smirks and a long pause while he waited for audience response makes it very clear it was on purpose.
Barry had a bad time at the debate and his best response is to act up for the ‘hood.
You go Barry! Show that white b——
Geeeez, Joe - all you have to do is look at the faces of the 2 guys behind him, and LISTEN to the audience, and you know he's not just "scratching with his middle finger!" And, you KNOW that's what he is doing - so, quit trying to defend the guy.