2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders on sour face during Clinton speech: 'I always have that look on my face'
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he may have appeared angry during Hillary Clinton's presidential nomination acceptance speech during the Democratic National Convention, but his face always looks like that.
"I always have that look on my face. That's nothing new," Sanders said on CBS's Face the Nation. "I am not always the smiling kind of guy."
Many noticed Sanders looked angry during the speech, including Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
"The dishonest media didn't mention that Bernie Sanders was very angry looking during Crooked's speech. He wishes he didn't make that deal!" Trump tweeted Thursday.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289911-sanders-on-sour-face-during-clinton-speech-i-always-have
MFM008
(19,818 posts)My dad was the same way even when he was happy I swear....
jcgoldie
(11,639 posts)And anyone who's been paying attention to him for the past months realize that look was not "sour" but I would say pensive.
still_one
(92,372 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)The only way to make issue of it is if you have never paid one single bit of attention to the guy. One of his supporters on my Facebook page says it's a reason he is looking at Trump. Says he was angry while she was giving her speech so he must know something. The dim bulb aspect is horrifying. I asked said individual to look at his hundreds of posts on Facebook where Sanders is pictured and to tell me how many of them there are where he doesn't have that look.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)He's OWNING the cranky old man thing!
There were plenty of times where he was zoomed in on, where sure, he looked cranky, but yet, he was visibly MOVED by the acknowledgements.
thucythucy
(8,086 posts)I saw someone intently focused, concentrating on what was being said. A look of intelligence, actually.
Since when is this a problem in politics?
radical noodle
(8,012 posts)George Eliot
(701 posts)I thought he looked ponderous which Trump would hardly recognize. And these guys sit through so many speeches. I watched both conventions and I got bored. These speeches get too long and frankly repetitive. Too much bla bla bla. For The Hill to characterize somebody listening to a political is much ado about nothing.
gg4usa
(83 posts)about helping the little guy. I get angry too seeing low-wage workers treated like commodities, suffering health issues from standing on their feet and lifting all day, then 'thrown away' when they become too much of a liability.
What's even worse is that "Companies are taking out life insurance policies on their employees, and collecting the benefits when they die."
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/an-employee-dies-and-the-company-collects-the-insurance/?_r=0
grubbs
(356 posts)I am a scowler too. I have a small selection of less grim expressions that I use at kids birthday parties and weddings and such.
Blue Idaho
(5,054 posts)Unfortunately - I interpreted it as a scowl. I'm not saying he was angry - but that was my reaction to that look on his face.
athena
(4,187 posts)I'm glad he has clarified that it's his normal look.
Blue Idaho
(5,054 posts)I know other people like that but you know what they say... "You never get a second chance to make a first impression."
Come to think of it - I'm probably much the same. If people ask me "what's wrong?" I usually say "Oh - that's just my thinking face..."
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)during almost every public appearance he had during the primaries he looked grumpy too. Like he said, he always looks like that.
PatSeg
(47,567 posts)I've followed him for a long time and a couple years ago I saw him on Rachel Maddow's show after he had scored some legislative victory. He was smiling ear-to-ear and Rachel had commented on how rare it was to see him smile. I realized then, that was the first time I had seen him smile!
He's just not a real smiley guy!
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)I had a couple of friends who saw me laying on the gym floor after the umpteenth failed attempt at something when they thought I couldn't hear them were saying to each other "Is he hurt?" "No I think he's just frustrated" when the actual answer was I was bemused that it it had taken me so many failed tries at something before realizing that I needed to switch my legs to land how I wanted.
And one of those people ranks as one of my closer friends.
I've gotten variations on the "you need to smile more" speech for as long as I can remember. It's annoying, but then I remember that people are stupid and don't realize they shouldn't offer their unrequested opinion on my facial expression because they are stupid.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)tends to be a bit dour.
that's just how he rolls
Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)Much ado about nothing.
JSup
(740 posts)...'resting bitch face' and many people, male and female, are afflicted by it. As often as people ask me, "What's wrong?" I deduce that I also suffer from this affliction.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Good for you, Bernie.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Leave us people alone who weren't born with a smiling resting face
procon
(15,805 posts)The millions of viewers probably expected something better of him and he can't walk back that unfortunate image. When he tries to dismiss his behavior it just comes across as disingenuous because clearly he is very capable and even willing to smile, laugh and look happy in other settings, even if he's only acting, so why put on the special sourpuss mask for the national TV audience just for Hillary's benefit?
Turin_C3PO
(14,033 posts)A lot of people watching know Bernie and know that's his "resting" face. As you can see from testimonies on this thread, a lot of people are perceived as angry when they're not.
procon
(15,805 posts)That excuse isn't going to work at all. Who puts on a "resting" face when they are the focal point of words of appreciation delivered by the future president of the US at the culmination ceremony of a national event before a live audience with cameras pointed at him to broadcast his heartfelt reaction to millions of viewers on national TV?
He not a temperamental child or a pouty teen, he's an experienced public figure, a politician who has previously demonstrated his ability to use the media to his own benefit when it suited him, but on that particular night he can't manage even a wee half-smile and maybe a little finger wave to the audience? Nah, that was a classic snub.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Jeez...
LuvLoogie
(7,021 posts)I just wish he'd stay a Democrat.
wishstar
(5,271 posts)emulatorloo
(44,173 posts)JI7
(89,262 posts)Even when his brother was speaking and he was tearing up, he still had that same look.
Kennah
(14,304 posts)tblue37
(65,483 posts)cherokeeprogressive
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