Video maker Eric Spiegelman, in 2009:
On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot…
h/t Black Mamba
And it’s not like there’s anything important going on internationally right now either so let’s hit the links too.
[… as he did Saturday.]
Looks prezzy dental
Middle Eastern turmoil…Japanese disaster…meh…small stuff when the 2012 election is looming.
He wiggled his thumb a little.
Can you tell the difference between a fake and a genuine smile? Try the test.
The word “android” comes to mind.
Amazing work those cosmetic dentists do now a days. Not many years ago his teeth were similar to Bucky Beaver Betty May. I wonder if he misses the art form he developed of eating a cob of corn through a picket fence.
Are you sure MMe. Toussaud didn’t drop by first to drop off a mannequin?
I guess they can find nothing useful for this guy to do.
Thing is that Barry has always giving the impression the he is more prezzy dental than presidential.
Good one WalterF.
It’s actually about a year and a half old.
“given”
Doh!
This creepy photo montage is from 2008 or 2009.
Here’s a link to some commentary on this, a few years ago. (check the commentary dates).
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message887970/pg1
Not that a crisis in Japan, a crisis in Libya, an energy crisis and widespread cash flow problems at home wouldn’t get in his way of his 60th presidential round of 18 hole golf.
Black Mamba
Imagine how old Barry’s shtick is gonna get in the next year and a half.
POWinCA,
18 of 20. I was a little harsh on a couple of genuines.
He’s like some replicant from Blade-Runner.
An alien android, or changeling switched at birth for the flesh robot golfer.
Why does he bother? Photo-shop would be more sincere.
JMO
New robot in town. Wonder if he’s met the Energizer bunny!
It’s a cardboard cut-out, costs $32.99 USD.
http://www.hollywoodmegastore.com/frame-set3.htm?0standups.html?s=msn
Yikes! If his thumb hadn’t moved a couple times, I would have called shens and said it was cut out.
Posted by: WalterF at March 13, 2011 1:01 AM
Good Groaner…
Reminds me of the queens wave.
It looks like they stood beside a cardboard statue of a real man . . . oh wait, that is a perfect description of Obozo.
I saw the same smile on the Colonel Saunders cardboard cutouts that used to be in the entrances to all Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets… weird… the guy is an empty suit!
Again, this isn’t news. What’s happening to SDA?
Robyn,
It’s not always about ‘news’ .. sometimes it just about well deserved ridicule.
A picture’s worth a thousand words. It’s like there’s no there, there. However, it would seem, he does like his mirror and his teleprompter.
A very long time ago (probably for a Royal Visit) I heard reported that the Queen doesn’t wave her arm massively the way we do when we’re greeting friends etc. (just holding her hand up and slightly moving it from the wrist) because it’d be too tiring doing it normally for the whole x number of miles of a parade/procession route or for an hour off the Buck House balconey.
BTW, is “prezzy dental” a typo of “pretty mental”?
;^)
OK so he has only one smile. I wonder if he has more than one suit, tie and lapel pin.
It’s amazing what digital photo-jobs can do. I’m surprised they didn’t add a bit of stately grey to his hair.
The wonders of photoshop. Everything in the photos change except Obama’s dorky smile and his mouseketeer ears.
He is the plastic President!
Robyn (10:18), there’s typically not a lot of breaking news late on a Saturday night, and if there is it’s readily available on Drudge and other news aggregators. SDA’s not really a news site per se, anyway; people come here mostly for Kate’s insight and humour and wit, and, to a far lesser extent, to entertain each other and comment on whatever is posted.
Which brings me to your question “What’s happening to SDA?”
What’s happening to SDA is that Kate is on a grueling road trip in the U.S., showing her dogs. The guest bloggers, none of whom could ever replace Kate or match her award-winning level of blogging excellence, are simply trying to help out, and be mildly entertaining, and sometimes informative and thought-provoking, and to keep the site running while she’s away.
Kate will be back in a week or so.
He looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy.
Wait . . . he is!
Click the video and think of a bobblehead that Chevy might have as a standard accessory on the dashboard of their Volt.
Joe:
I’ve been wondering the same thing about his suit. He always seems to be wearing the same one. His ties are almost always solid. He now wears every day the flag lapel pin he deliberately took off and refused to wear during the Iraq War.
For a guy who has made the cover of GQ so many times, he has no sense of fashion. I’m trying to figure out whether it’s his bland personality or a feature of the simulacrum.
I originally found this on Neo-Neocon’s awesome blog. She’s some kind of a shrink (not a thing I generally admire, but anyhoo…), and she says: “…the nearly-fixed head position (is)… in my opinon… even more revealing (than the smile)…”
Here’s her take on this.
(p.s. I will say this; for once, here, I love Michelle’s dress. I’m just trying to be positive!)
“I’m trying to figure out whether it’s his bland personality or a feature of the simulacrum.”
Stage management.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUlxrXg8Rs&feature=related
Here’s the President and his brother doing a commercial in 1978.
VERY rare footage.
Barry Soetoro action figure
Someone should have slipped in an Alfred E. Newman in one of those frames.
quick, call madame tussaud’s and ask them if they are missing something…
Ok EBD, your comments are fair dinkum.