# Creepy unchanging smile of Barak Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482 "2009-10-03T21:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/21 "2009-10-04T04:15:22Z")
I am so not nostalgic for the GWB smirk. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/22 "2009-10-04T04:50:39Z")
So the takeaway here is… Obama is used to having his picture taken. Are we supposed to be surprised about this? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/23 "2009-10-04T05:02:36Z")
Obama is a professional smiler just like every other elected official. You would expect consistency on him or any of them. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/24 "2009-10-04T05:22:26Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Obama is a professional smiler just like every other elected official. You would expect consistency on him or any of them. Watch my link to see what happens when they _don’t_ practice. The fun begins about a minute in. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/25 "2009-10-04T07:05:01Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Uh, it’s photoshopped. One picture of his head/smile, many pictures of him with various people. The eyes and shadows on his face change so it’s more than a cut and paste. It’s not out of the realm to have a standard smile-for-the-camera face. What would be creepy is watching someone go from not smiling to smiling over and over again. Remember when Bill Clinton was caught smiling while talking with someone at a funeral (Brown’s?) and upon seeing the camera put on his “funeral face”. Life’s a bitch when you have camera’s following you around everwhere. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/26 "2009-10-04T12:58:52Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Watch my link to see what happens when they _don’t_ practice. The fun begins about a minute in. Now _that’s_ creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/27 "2009-10-04T13:12:23Z")
It positively brightens my day to see how many wingnuts are passing this around as a knock on Obama. I guess every major knock fizzled out if they’re falling back on “He didn’t get the Olympics” and “He smiles too consistently”. Up next: “He hangs the toilet paper backwards”. They’re beginning to remind me of Homer not getting the joke the nuclear physics teacher told, but laughing hysterically at him when he dropped some papers. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/28 "2009-10-04T13:42:54Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > ??? > > I voted for Obama and I’ve never listened to Rush a day in my life. It’s still a creepy smile though. > > Have we gotten to the point that any comment that isn’t ravenously positive towards Obama must be by a mouth-breathing Rush-loving moron? > > Weird. He’s a politician for gods sake,they have to smile to order a hundred times a day every day. If they don’t smile when they’re opening the local highway/community centre/hospital/whatever for the two hundreth thousand time this year its spread all over the papers that they’re either miserable gits or they don’t support the thing that they’re attending or even worse that theres some sort of secret government crisis going on and they’re preoccupied by it. If politicians WANTED to smile as often as they’re required to they’d either have to be on meds or need meds. Media stars do the same thing but people seem not to notice it as much. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/29 "2009-10-04T16:27:08Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Now _that’s_ creepy. I really like Dr. Dean. I think he has great ideas. But he could win any “Creepy Smile-off” in a walk, any day of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/30 "2009-10-04T16:36:32Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Uh, it’s photoshopped. One picture of his head/smile, many pictures of him with various people. That’s what I thought, too. I mean, it’s the exact same expression. His head isn’t even tilted or moved over at all. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/31 "2009-10-04T17:06:48Z")
So Obama has something in common with [Paris Hilton](http://parisfacial.ytmnd.com/) and [Lindsay Lohan](http://lohanfacial.ytmnd.com/), then? ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/32 "2009-10-05T05:02:13Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > So Obama has something in common with [Paris Hilton](http://parisfacial.ytmnd.com/) and [Lindsay Lohan](http://lohanfacial.ytmnd.com/), then? [Just ask McCain!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXYsw_ZDXg) I imagine if the OP’s video was around a year ago it would’ve been made into an official campaign commercial. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/33 "2009-10-05T05:26:03Z")
Wow! he looks like a ventriliquist!!! That is so cool not creepy at all! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482/34 "2009-10-05T06:18:06Z")
A [collection](http://www.monsieurlam.com/2009/03/20/gif-me-your-best-smile/) of animated gifs with consistent smiles. (Warning: Animated gifs) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-unchanging-smile-of-barak-obama/512482.md?page=1)