I can see why Charlie Gibson of ABC news loves this guys so much ( and hates Sarah ) - cut from the same “looking their noses down on everyone” cloth.
This deserves it’s own post - I’m sure there are other pictures that read his visage well...
The simpler explanation, which I find more persuasive, is that he's just too narcissistic: He's the star and these foreign prime ministers are rather dreary extras. And unfortunately he's not a good enough actor to conceal his lack of interest in them. And his courtiers take pretty much the same line, which is why it never occurred to them that some no-name Brit would be insulted at not getting the multi-flagged joint presser.
A couple of weeks ago, the Fox TV show Lie to Me featured some great pix of celebs expressing contempt (like Condi Rice at a press conference -- as well she should). One of the video clips was of Obama subconsciously "flipping off" John McCain after a McCain challenge during one of the debates. Tim Roth's character explained that such gestures are more common than one would think, and showed another example featuring another celeb.
But the clip nailed Obama as into contempt, waaay into contempt, in a venue in which contempt had no place, where he was asking the American People for the most powerful job in the world.
There's also an e-mail going around I haven't been able to either validate or evaluate, in which "someone" claims that Obama is clinically narcissistic. As in, David Koresh and Jim Jones.
Those pictures make me sick.... and pissed off.