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In reply to the discussion: Why do babies go all stiff as soon as Willard touches them? [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)5. Willard is always in the process of giving them back!
He never holds them but for a second. So the baby is just being handed around.
Conversely President Obama holds them a while or plays with them a little. I recall the one with the little guy who was really happy, thrashing his legs about while the President held him up!
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very true, you don't see pics where he and a baby are looking each other in the eye and
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#30
The President holds children close. He clearly cherishes them. Romney, on the other hand ...
11 Bravo
Sep 2012
#28
You can tell which one had nannies for the kids and which one changed diapers and got puked on. n/t
gkhouston
Sep 2012
#34
Because all babies can sense the future when they touch somebody. Like in the Dead Zone.
Poll_Blind
Sep 2012
#38