Posted on 09/05/2013 12:15:09 PM PDT by 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.
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Yeah, Putin really looks dominated and intimidated in that picture all right. About as dominated and intimidated as a lion with his back turned to a mouse.
I was single after my husband died and was going to a Catholic church. There was a man who, when he saw me, would come up and put his hands on me (he was single but had a girlfriend). He kept this up every single time he was around me and I didn’t like it - make me feel uncomfortable - he didn’t just invade my space, he kept feeling me.
I knew he always went to the fellowship room before church, so I went there to deal with this. Sure enough, here he came with both arms/hands out to feel me - I said, “Don’t touch me.” It was like a bomb went off, his arms were stuck in the air and shock was all over his face. He said he didn’t mean anything by it and I said I don’t like it and don’t do it again. I left and went to the sanctuary and he stayed away from me from then on. He was lying when he said he didn’t mean anything by it because he was way too personal when he did it.
A strange occurrence happened later. I was helping an attorney choose a jury, we were both in the front of the court room and about to question the jury pool, and damn, there that guy was in the jury pool and he was staring at me. I had to pull the attorney aside and quickly tell him about that guy. We skipped him for that jury. He might have voted guilty for our guy just to get back at me. We couldn’t take that chance. Strange how people pop up in your life unexpectedly.
‘Brian Williams bows to the One’
Subservient, lickspittle Demo-tool.
I assume the king has taken his Royal Food Taster with him on this trip.
I think a bunch of the members are Afghan War vets, so he may still have enough mojo.
I posted these from the G-20 so we all can put a face to a name....this is an important summit....and one Putin will surely be known for whatever the outcome....
To me this is a ‘tilt’ in the powers that be and what can expect down the road...Russia and China are fast replacing the US on the International Power Stage...
my God! they just can’t wait to get down on their knees and give this a **** job at every opportunity. Dominant? The only thing he is not doing is prancing. The media’s approach is the most disgusting show ever. It makes Milley Cyrus’s recent escapade as something acceptable for my gramdmother’s Wednesday night church group.
“I noticed after the hand shake, obama started to put his hand on Putin’s back, but took it down like he was about to touch a hot stove.”
Now that’s funny! Personification at it’s best.
What a surprise. Still, this thread has picked up my spirits today.
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