The man challenges Obama’s eligibility for President and HIS ORDERS ARE REVOKED. That’s not just a wee bit suspicious to Hot Air?

Now we hear he has been FIRED FROM HIS JOB on orders from the Pentagon?

Cover up? Abuse of power? Oh it can’t be! Nothing to see here folks, move along please. Why, Obama was born in Hawaii because FactCheck.org said so!

It’s actually a very “loud” body language statement that is exceptionally and intuitively offensive to people who are subjected to this (unless they’re good friends and accept bodily contact of that extreme as usual and customary, something that communicates “sharing” of bodily space between people familiar with one another — that means, someone has already expressed [verbally or not] their acceptance of being handled by someone else, so there’s no objection when someone, Obama, walks up and grabs them like that, but it’s accepted as a form of shared communication, of relationship)…

Anyway, it’s weird to my view how it is that Obama engages in this behavior and has obviously been doing so under some sort of training or “learned” bodily posturing along the lines of sales techniques or “power moves”.

It’s not power that motivates that, however, but insecurity. The presumption of dominating others physically without so much as any pre-existing permission to do so is the action by an insecure individual.

Thus, how he’s perceived: insecure and unusually dominating which also explains his protracted “I’m listening” act with others. It’s trained, rehearsed (and false, insincere) behavior because of that.

All of that, however, on a physical level, entirely intuitive. But the intuitive is how we immediately respond to others, especially physically.

I’ve noticed that too. He’s a control freak and it shows through body language.

He did the very same thing (once) to President Bush when they first met after the election at the white house. Bush caught on quickly and did exactly what you said – backed off and away.

tru2tx on July 15, 2009 at 8:36 AM

I didn’t see that by President Bush but it sounds like something he’d do for the same reasons I would do so: it’s an automatic boundary response, like, get yer hands OFF me, or, “oh, no, you won’t” so you step outside their grabbing range (which is, I am certain, what was taking place in that photo of Russia’s President taken beside Obama with the Russian guy leaning waaay off in the opposite direction from Obama).

Obama does this grabbing thing with EVERY person he stops to “be greeted by” (ha). He extends his one hand to shake someone else’s hand while simultaneously using this other hand and arm to grab the other person’s shoulder, and then he hangs onto their shoulder long past the duration of the handshake.

It’s like he “captures” people and then “holds them there” before him and without their permission at being grabbed. I’ve seen more than a few people respond as I would — noticed that German Merkel took to stepping away from Obama very quickly inorder to, so it appeared, avoid that Obama-grab-you-by-your-shoulder motion. And I DID see France’s Sarkozy decidedly move just distance enough away from Obama to avoid Obama grabbing him at the shoulder.

I don’t CARE if it’s Obama’s rationale that he’s being friendly or whatever, it’s just plain crude and rude behavior with other people. It’s that “I’m the Principal and you’re in trouble, kid” shoulder grab that some presumptuous people intent on them being “of greater power” than others engage in that communicates their presumption that other people have no say in where or how or by whom they are grabbed. It’s Obama acting quite rudely with nearly everyone because I’ve seen him do this with nearly everyone he’s photographed meeting.

Try walking up to someone — random stranger — and offering your hand to shake while also grabbing them at the shoulder with your other hand, you’ll likely get punched or someone will wrench themself away from you and step waaay back (as they should).

Obama has no social or physical “right” to so impose on the personal bodies and boundaries of nearly anyone/everyone like that. Being President doesn’t mean one is privileged to be Creep in Chief.

Ther can be only one answer. Russians are racists!!

jukin on July 15, 2009 at 10:28 AM

I’m sure that’s the case.If you listen carefully you can hear the words Cream Of Wheat box. Those Ruskies are terrible

Yes, we saw this in Saudi Arabia, too. He was introducing his staff, but it looked like he was getting snubbed, but it was Axelrod and Jarrett, etc.

He needs to introduce with his left hand because when he uses his right, as seen in this video, it does look like he is getting snubbed. But he’s not.

I call BS. Still photos are notorious for giving the wrong impression. IE him ogling the teenager at the G8. The stills looked bad and the video looked less so.

Same here. Ochimpy is a traitorous sack of crap and NO ONE respects a traitor. Especially your enemies.

Washington Post photo of same event is here.
Go to photo number 37 after the ad video plays.

Obama is not being snubbed, he is introducting his staff to Medvedev.

albill on July 15, 2009 at 9:05 AM

Obviously in denial.

Seriously. I would guess that 90% of the people reading this blog already know what a putz this guy is and don’t need more proof.

The people that need the proof aren’t getting it from the MSM. What is needed is a new station in the MSM that promotes the other point of view.

The last three would be easier to spot as introductory gestures if his expression weren’t so awkward and if it didn’t seem as if he’s mumbling. Having watched it a few more times, I have to agree that it’s highly questionable that he is being snubbed. The first handshake may well have been accepted, and the rest do look like he’s just gesturing at the people in line.