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silverweb

(16,402 posts)
19. So telling.
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 04:08 PM
Oct 2012

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]As everyone else has mentioned, he holds the babies in a very odd way -- away from his body and facing away from him. He's "going through the motions" required for campaigning, but doesn't really want anything to do with these kids or their families. He doesn't look at their faces or into their eyes, or otherwise interact with them in any way, and he thinks it's funny when they cry.

Our President, on the other hand, holds babies close. He looks into the eyes of each child, infants and older children. He makes faces, talks to them, encourages them to touch him, and interacts with them. He's real and connected. Willard is as phoney as phoney can be.

Looks like he's participated in "Dwarf tossing" a few too many times. nt justiceischeap Oct 2012 #1
DUzy! CrispyQ Oct 2012 #4
Genuinely lol.... ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #22
Talk about keeping them at arms' length... OneGrassRoot Oct 2012 #2
He's holding them wrong! liberalmuse Oct 2012 #3
My thoughts exactly. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2012 #7
He was probably one of those dads... liberalmuse Oct 2012 #13
Very poor form for a caber toss hootinholler Oct 2012 #21
He holds them in the oddest way treestar Oct 2012 #5
What do you expect; they're GallopingGhost Oct 2012 #6
Caption: Here honey, you take him, he's wet libdem4life Oct 2012 #8
What the hell? PatSeg Oct 2012 #9
It looks like he's trying to launch them into space. GoCubsGo Oct 2012 #11
If it was just one picture of one baby, PatSeg Oct 2012 #16
Did Mitt Romney at one time own a company that made figureheads for sailing ships? KansDem Oct 2012 #10
What is wrong with that man? n/t etherealtruth Oct 2012 #12
that ain`t the way you hold someones baby...what a dumb ass madrchsod Oct 2012 #14
WTF? BattyDem Oct 2012 #15
Even the Secret Service agent is, like, "whoa" in that last one. n/t Camballo Oct 2012 #17
Obama is the picture of grace. Romney utterly lacks grace. JDPriestly Oct 2012 #18
So telling. silverweb Oct 2012 #19
he holds them like they might bite him....and they might spanone Oct 2012 #20
He sure doesn't want them close to him. morningfog Oct 2012 #23
They've scrubbed the most damning photo... pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #24
This is a guy who has never hugged a baby in his life because that's the woman's job. I don't think Monk06 Oct 2012 #25
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