Obama’s favorite trick [is] touching someone on the shoulder, as he did to President Bush at the White House, and leaning on the CJ’s chair. Totally inappropriate and a power play on O’s part.
Aphephobia by ladyjane
"Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any. Frantic violence became the attribute of manliness" -Thucydides
I remember someone saying the exact same thing about GWB - the difference being that there was video footage to prove it. W remains a very tactile guy, and most definitely strays into the power play/inappropriate arena. I can't somehow imagine Obama coming up behind Angela Merkel and giving her a shoulder rub.
ReplyDeleteYep. Anything Obama does, even if Bush did it too, will result in massive criticism from the ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome) freepers. Bush could eat a live puppy tail first with its face toward the camera on national TV and they would cheer his bravery. Obama could turn Iraq into a powerful U.S. ally, kill Osama bin Laden and Ahmadinejad with his bare hands, end the recession and pave the streets with gold, and they'd call him a traitor and claim that every good thing he did was already set up by Bush.
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