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