Obama’s revealing body language (updated and expanded))

I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing.

Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?

In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful. Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is looking.

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Body language is the key to so many things.  Cops have people who actually watch perps through one-way glass in order to get input on their body language.  IMO ‘The Kenyan in Charge’ has always given away his hypocrisy, ignorance, and hubris with his body language.  Like tis said, “One picture is worth a thousand words.”