NBC: The Big Chill: A dominant Obama meets a cool Putin at G20 (BARF!)

NBC News ^ | September 5, 2013 | Tracy Connor

[maggief]

President Barack Obama was intent on getting the upper hand as he greeted Russia's Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit on Thursday, according to body language experts who watched the frosty exchange.

From a jacket-buttoning pause to a hard-pumping handshake, Obama displayed tell-tale signs of dominance after he alit from a limo in front of St. Petersburg's Konstantin Palace, where Putin waited to meet him, communication experts said.

There was no outright hostility, but the chill between the two world leaders — at loggerheads over NSA leaker Edward Snowden and a strike against Syria — was evident in clenched-jaw smiles and lack of eye-contact and touching, the experts said.

[caww]

Aerial view of the palace

[trisham]

He’ll regret that little charade.

[Nepeta]

Dream on, NBC.

[trisham]

That says it all.

[Nepeta]

Unless you have any pictures of Putin going through a gate with an open umbrella

And looking like he thinks there should be a way to pass the umbrella over the top of the gate...

One of my most favorite pics of The One.

[maggief]

F. Chuck Todd leading with the handshake on NBC Nightly News.

/F. tool.

[Iron Munro]

Barack Obama Gets Tough With Putin

[trisham]

F. Chuck Todd leading with the handshake on NBC Nightly News.

/F. tool.

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Yes, that he is.

[Iron Munro]

Put them in a room for 7 minutes and lock it from the outside. Let’s analyze the body language after that.

The manly way to settle this is with a Putin vs. Obama Death Cage Match