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.
"There's no real warmth," said Erik Bucy, a professor at Texas Tech University who researches non-verbal communication.
"It looks like Putin's basically a hotel greeter at a five-star establishment and Obama is coming out of the limo as the important invited guest he's not particularly thrilled to see."
Body Language in Business," made a similar analogy.
"It was very odd. Obama is treating him like he was greeting a doorman," she said.
She noted the significance Obama buttoning his suit jacket after exiting the limo.
"That’s another way men show power," she said. "It says, 'I know the attention is on me' and it’s a little bit rude to do that. It's grabbing the power for yourself."
This is what we used to call a load of shit. NBC is reduced to finding experts to comment on Zero buttoning his jacket to show "dominance". The only dominance this clown ever showed was with Larry Sinclair on a coke bender.
""It was very odd. Obama is treating him like he was greeting a doorman," she said."
Not really. Obummer IS "The Magical Knee-Grow","The ONE you have been waiting for",and Pootie Poot is just another cracka.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #2This is what we used to call a load of shit. NBC is reduced to finding experts to comment on Zero buttoning his jacket to show "dominance". The only dominance this clown ever showed was with Larry Sinclair on a coke bender.
"That’s another way men show power," she said. "It says, 'I know the attention is on me' and it’s a little bit rude to do that. It's grabbing the power for yourself."
Bad spin....
He said that Putin nodded 10 times during the encounter, tilting his head down even though it would have made more sense to look up at the taller Obama.....Bucy, however, said he thinks Putin was sending a dismissive message
Does not equal in any world "Putin is intimidated by Obama.."
"Does not equal in any world "Putin is intimidated by Obama.."
NOBODY has ever been intimidated by Obummer. Not even once. Pee Wee Herman wouldn't even be intimidated by him.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
There HE is with "that button" again ....What'd a MAN !!
I am saving that (picture) for my Obama Is Gay folder collection!
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
On one side is the leader of a large nation police state whose corrupt agencies spy on and jail its citizenry for political reasons, while its state run media ignores all government transgressions ... on the other side is Putin.