I've been skeptical - okay, critical - of the president since before he was our president. One of the things I was not crit/skeptical about concerning him was his allegedly dower appearance. I can remember commentators constantly nagging on why the man never smiled, whether or not he was too serious, was he too dispassionate, removed, robot-like? That was probably the only thing I really liked about him, besides the fact that he's black. Today, however, something occurred to me. Picture after picture of the president in Europe for the G20 conference showed me a side of the man I hadn't known through pictures before. It took me awhile to figure out what it was, but then it hit me:
DUDE. What are you smiling about? Seriously: what is going on? You're at the G20 while the world is on the verge of economic meltdown. Something is going on behind the scenes. What is it? Is he excited to see Big Ben? The Tower of London? Was Tea-Time really so amazing?
It was interesting, though, to see all the old country people flock around him for photos:
Now that I think about it, I know why Barack is smiling: he's thinking
Dude, I totally own all these white people.
