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Last edited Sat May 12, 2012, 04:42 PM - Edit history (1)
I had posted in another thread about Body Language and how important it is. Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=679601
The game: Watch this video of Romney. Try to be as unbiased as you possibly can, watch closely and then tell us here what Romney is really telling YOU via his body language.
Note: I went to youtube and just picked a video by random, I didn't want to force you all to watch a huge ass long speech.
Let's play.
Keeping both videos for fairness
New Video:
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)note a smug little smile, the bounce. Entitlement.
malaise
(268,980 posts)It's all about him= the entitled little prick
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Romney is about to launch into how bad these economic times are...His facial expression changes, awkwardly. He is going into a role.
Tells me FALSE.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Darn, let me see if I can find another version of this.
Edit:
Op has another version of the same speech.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)until I saw him in one of the debates.
He doesn't talk like a man who believes what is coming out of his mouth.
I've heard sales pitches from clerks at Best Buy that were delivered with more heartfelt conviction.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)He just robotically continues his speech, right where he left off.
FogerRox
(13,211 posts)Reminds me of Ted the Anchorman from Mary Tyler Moore show. An empty suit.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)looking out of the corner of his eye...also feels false.
The topic of the thread in the OP was about lip smacking, Note he does not do any lip smacking when he is reading off a teleprompter...at least I hadn't noticed. It could possibly be a nervous quirk he has when he is off the cuff. Like his laugh. I bet he isn't even aware he does it.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)IS REALLY STARTING TO BUG ME. He tilts his head like a grandmother with that look, there there, don't bug me right now. Smile says one thing, the eyes say something else....know what I mean?
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)as I wasn't particularly interested in what he had to say, LOL.
And his expression doesn't really change much during the whole speech. His position shifts from the left to the right and back to the left again robotically, spending almost exactly the same amount of time in each position. When he does smile, he eyes don't. His wife looks like she's just gotten a whiff of some unpleasant smell. The whole production looks SO fake. Not a real emotion on that stage.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)I got the exact same feeling, his smile says one thing, his eyes says something else. It's robotic, stiff.