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Old 29 September 2009, 01:22 PM
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Default Obama smiles with world leaders

And has an eerily unchanging expression:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattw/obama-...d-leaders-arl/

Warning: Video has loudish music; you may want to turn down your speakers.
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Old 29 September 2009, 03:27 PM
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Site is undergoing Server Maintenance so I can't see it at the moment. I will say if it's a "smile" then I find it favorable to Bush's unchanging "dumbfounded" look that we got to see for the last 8 years....
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Old 29 September 2009, 03:32 PM
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Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

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Old 29 September 2009, 03:44 PM
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Wow, politican with big cheesy grin he uses for every photo shoot. I'm glad no other politician on the face of this planet has ever done that before. Carter has had the same ... we'll call it a smile for what 50 years now? Then there was Clinton's patented "I'm trying to look thoughtful" look. And Laura Bush's pasted on grin. Seriously, is there a point here?
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Old 29 September 2009, 04:27 PM
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Is there a point to any time lapse photography? Art is such a waste of time...
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Old 29 September 2009, 04:35 PM
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Is there a point to any time lapse photography? Art is such a waste of time...
I was asking because it doesn't seem that there is any innocent posting of Obama these days. It seems as though every thing found "in the wild" is trying to make some sinister point. I assumed this one was too. Maybe the artist was implying Obama is really a robot or a cardboard cut-out.
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Old 29 September 2009, 05:02 PM
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I was asking because it doesn't seem that there is any innocent posting of Obama these days. It seems as though every thing found "in the wild" is trying to make some sinister point. I assumed this one was too. Maybe the artist was implying Obama is really a robot or a cardboard cut-out.

I was actually going to suggest that's how he made this video--cutout or cut/paste, until I watched it a few more times and realized the eyes really did move. Occasionally he is subtly looking left, then right, then straight on.

Could still be easily faked, but then again....
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Old 29 September 2009, 05:05 PM
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Smiling? Smiling with other people, in photo opportunities? Its obvious he is the anti-Christ. We have to impeach him now and just ban Democrats from ever running for higher office. It is just the only thing we can do!
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Old 29 September 2009, 05:08 PM
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Smiling? Smiling with other people, in photo opportunities? Its obvious he is the anti-Christ. We have to impeach him now and just ban Democrats from ever running for higher office. It is just the only thing we can do!
See! I knew that's what we were supposed to get from this!
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Old 29 September 2009, 05:10 PM
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See! I knew that's what we were supposed to get from this!
A strawman argument?
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Old 29 September 2009, 05:31 PM
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I'm as defensive of Obama as the next guy (or, in my case, gal), but I didn't get anything inherently sinister about this. In fact, I found it pretty funny and actually downright impressive. That is one consistent smile.

Now, if anyone in my family were to send this to me, I would have a hard time laughing, since they would certainly have ulterior motives.
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Old 29 September 2009, 05:33 PM
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A strawman argument?
I'm not sure what you're driving at here. I'll outline my thought process in this thread:

Interesting title, I wonder what it's about.
Well, that seems fairly innocent, really. Wonder why the guy made it. Lots of people smile for photos. Nothing sinister about that.
I shall post about seeing nothing sinister about Obama smiling.
I just got called on why I posted there is nothing sinister about Obama smiling.
I should probably explain my reasoning.
I think dfresh understands where my reasoning was coming from. I shall joke with dfresh.
I see Roadie posted. Now I'm confused. I should post explaining myself again.

So that's where we are. I assumed, wrongly as it turns out, the video in the OP was trying to suggest something sinister in Obama smiling for the cameras. Thus I went off on how lots of politicans have the same "look", sometimes over decades.

There, I think we're all on the same page now.
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Old 29 September 2009, 06:28 PM
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Well, that seems fairly innocent, really. Wonder why the guy made it. Lots of people smile for photos. Nothing sinister about that.
On his own profile he says why he made it.

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Eric Spiegelman commented on Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile

My sense is that every president of the 20th century was capable of this. But Obama is the only one who put all his photos on the Internet, so he's the only one we can prove has this skill.
As to whether that's true is a different question, but I see nothing sinister in his reasoning either.
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Old 29 September 2009, 06:30 PM
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I already admitted I had a knee-jerk reaction.
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