The Body Language Lady take on the Obamesiah’s visual signals, and…it’s freaking scary:

Obama’s Revealing Body Language
Filed under: Celebrity Analysis, Political Candidate Analysis, Commentary, Body Language Analysis — patti @ 11:25 pm

If you have been watching Obama speak and give interviews you may have noticed that he seems to reveal spot light more than even the most egotistical of political candidates. He spends a half hour going through the crowd after he is introduced, shaking hands like a Messiah. He has this condescending look down his nose at your sneer when he talks to interviewers and looks especially perturbed and angry when berating someone who he perceives is attacking him. He morphs his voice and body language to suit each audience in a manner that goes beyond customization to easily acting a part. I believe he is narcissistic. Here are other narcissistic nonverbal and behavioral cues that one of my blog readers wrote about Obama.One of my readers is getting his doctorate on evolution and ecology and wrote me:

“I’ve spent years trying to recognize the most accurate indicators of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). There are a handful that I’ve come to trust, though they’re a bit difficult to convey.

1. An amorphous expression that looks like a child, about three years old, needing approval. I’ve almost never seen this expression in someone who isn’t NPD (occasionally in Borderline Personality Disorder, a closely related type II personality disorder). To me, it’s an exceptionally good indicator. It’s often a fleeting micro-expression (hard to catch without practice). It’s an expression of yearning and need, directed toward the person they’re interacting with. In males, it makes the face look like that of a little boy. Some psychologists argue that a developmental stage goes awry in NPD, roughly around the age of three.
2. The eyes of NPDs usually have an unusual look. My face-reading friend describes them as “dead eyes”. I perceive NPD eyes as “no boundary between inside and outside”. Some people perceive them as magnetic. There’s reduced activity in some of the musculature around the eyes. This includes a reduced response to emotion-laden scenes or speech (e.g. less of a startle response to disturbing visuals). At times, it can produce a “detached” appearance - or a languid, even slightly sleepy look. The startle response of pupils (e.g. to disturbing scenes) is often diminished relative to normal people (both less of a change in pupil diameter, and a longer lag before pupil size changes). I think people with NPD also spend less time playing through internal imagery (visible in eye tracking and facial expressions).
3. There’s also something I call “frozen cheeks”. Muscles in the cheek region aren’t as mobile as in normal people. This is partly due to a subtle expression of contempt and partly due to increased control over appearance.

The contempt can often be an open clear-cut expression, but much of the time it’s just a subtle tensing of the musculature, underlying the “apparent” expression.

Obama displays all of these (the first as micro expressions). There’s also his entitlement body language, his glares, his cocked head and “looking down the nose”, etc.. He occupies quite a bit of space and also frequently initiates physical contact - e.g. putting his hand on someone’s back or arm.
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People with NPD are typically hypercompetitive and hate losing. One woman I know of would throw the checkerboard across the room if she lost a game of checkers with her eight year old son. Obama is clearly hypercompetitive and is known as a bad loser - people that he has played poker with comment on him being a poor loser, and he’s said to be a bad loser in politics as well (e.g. when he lost to Bobby Rush).

Narcissists that I’ve known are generally charming and very well-liked (except by those they’ve injured). They often set up a cult of personality, though on a much smaller scale than Obama - a circle of admiring people.

There’s a need for a high level of admiration.
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And it goes on. Worth the read. Discusses the empty personality that has to create a veneer to present to those around him, the communicating without saying anything, to criticize while not appearing to do so.

The good news: His arrogance should do him in.

Update: Toss in the idiot will say anything without doing basic fact checks.

Somehow, I can’t see electing a this man to an office that criticizes Hillary for not reading the resolution to go to war, and President Bush for not responding more quickly to 9/11. For cripes sake, he took 20+ YEARS to decide his pastor was saying something bad. That will be classic. He can join up with Jimmy Carter, making decisions decades after he leaves office. But, even worse, he tossed Rev Wright under the buss when he, the great B_hO was dissed. How can I trust him to stand up for anyone besides himself? Notice how the whole disavowel of Rev Wright feeds the main point of this post…

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