This is too funny.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Sorry, but Zardari was just reading Palin’s signals. From the first gesture, and the first word she sexualized that encounter. Granted, Zardari should not have risen to the bait, but it is her cluelessness about how to behave in such an encounter is what was most on display. Virtually every gesture, every word, every vocal inflection in that 30 seconds screams of two people meeting in a bar on a blind date, not a diplomatic greeting by a wannabe head of state to a visiting foreign leader. My god, she was ducking her head and giggling and flirting with him like a teenage bimbo.
The woman is lacking in even the most basic instincts regarding how to behave.
Ya beat me to it.
From what I read somewhere else (can’t remember where), Palin encouraged him. Instead of a formal handshake, she held his hand with both of hers, tilted her head and looked up at him thru her eyelashes with a shy smile. This is quite blatent flirtation. So, of course, he responded with flattery like he was meeting a Bond Girl at an embassy ball. She set the tone and he followed her lead.
I have watched that video over and over because I simply could not believe my eyes. She 1) sexualized the encounter from the first nanosecond, and 2) tacitly gave him all the power and control. Notice how HE began to sit and gestured HER to her seat, even though they should have been meeting AT LEAST as equals, and she was the host and he was the visitor, which means he should take HER lead?
And that handshake at the beginning – I can’t list in how many ways that was wrong, MOST PARTICULARLY when meeting for the first time a Muslim head of state.
Even a newbie to this sort of thing should have some kind of intuition about how to behave, and this woman has none at all.
very interesting. and interesting how he starts to back away after a brief handshake but she doesn’t let go. then he moves forward again to look gracious, but he keeps trying to move back away from her.
“You are more gorgeous than you are on [television]”
There is a video now playing on Huffington Post of Palin’s appearance in a beauty contest somewhere in Alaska.
I predict this gets a 1% jump in the polls for McCain from the good ol’ bar hopping beer guzzling boys around the country.
There’s a term for expecting others to think like you: myopia. How do you think Bush got elected president twice?
Glad it is only 1%.
This is so cool. No spoilers – just check it out for yourself. If the leader of America was chosen by a ‘global electoral college’ chosen by readers of The Economist, this is what we’d get:
http://www.economist.com/vote2008/index.cfm
Well, too bad the whole world cannot vote.
In our lifetimes, that may change.