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[Washington Babylon]

Take Me to Your Leader

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From Eric Spiegelman, via Politico:

Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent. On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot…And, of course, compressed into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure.

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