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Barack Obama's diplomatic smileathon

A new 22-second film reveals the US president's extraordinary capacity for grinning and bearing numerous photocalls with the same diplomatic smile



Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Being photographed next to Barack Obama has become the must-do activity for any world leader. Silvio Berlusconi's cheesy thumbs up at the G20 in London revealed how desperate global statesman can get to be snapped with the US president. But now the attraction of the Obama photocall may have lost some of its lustre.

Blogger Eric Spiegelman quips that his new film is proof that the president is a robot, a waxwork or a cardboard cut-out.

The White House released 130 photographs of the president with various foreign dignitaries at a dinner during the United Nations general assembly last week. Spiegelman snipped them together and put them to music, to create a video gem that has quickly gone viral.

The Guardian also featured several of the best in a special gallery.

"No human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent," Spiegelman quips.

He adds: "Obama is the only one who put all his photos on the Internet, so he's the only one we can prove has this skill."

Maybe its time for Obama to wipe that grin off his face.

Syrian on an crash course in English!

Dear YAaaMO,

Yesterday friendatee invited me to a restaurant, we orders first KISSERS ( (مقبلات , upside down (( مقلوبة , 
and the dessert was hind's husband cake ( جوز الهند) and made in husband ( معمول بالجوز). 

But yamo one of my friendatee is a moons player ( لعيب قمار) so danger on my mind ( خطر عبالي) to go to the vomiting office (مكتب المراجعات) in the university that have the
divorced salad( السلطة المطلقة(and tell them about my friend.

Yamo I bought two husbands of socks ( جوزين كلسات) but the salesman didn't understand what I wanted so I told him your price on me(حقق عليي) I wanted to pay for the socks he didn't accept and said to me keep it on my calculation (خليها عحسابي) 

We became friends and he invited me to his house before I came in I shouted constitution on parents home (دستور ياأهل الدار) but I evaluated his envelopes (قدرت ظروفه) coz he lived alone in a small house. 

He insisted to spend the night in his house I told him cover your width ( يستر على عرضك) I can't sleep out of the university but from here to here ( من هون لهون) I knew he was Syrian too. 

He was very on a boy ( عصبي). I told him that the next day the invitation would be on my mathematics (على حسابي). 

Friendato came to tell him replace your safety (عوض بسلامتك) coz his cousin died two weeks ago. 

Make your touching in good Yamo ( مسيتك بالخير) , and see you soon…