The look on Hillary's face tells me all I need to know...

[GSLevel9]

I can't wait til a few years from now when she writes her memoirs.

[marmar]

1. Hillary 'annihilate Iran' Clinton?

Yeah, I wonder.

[PassingFair]

2. I think it was "obliterate"....

:hi:

[marmar]

3. Thanks, I knew it was some word meaning 'remove from the face of the earth'

nt

[JI7]

4. maybe she was about to sneeze or had a cough

[GSLevel9]

6. no

that gesture is well known in body language.

1) Deceit or the act of withholding information can sometimes be indicated by touching the face during conversation

2)If the person who is speaking uses this gesture, it indicates that he is telling a lie. If, however, he/she covers his/her mouth while you are speaking, it indicates that he/she feels you are lying!

[abelenkpe]

9. Not a perfect science

But helpful for animators.

She could also be gasping in horror. It's one frame.

[emulatorloo]

22. + 1 on gasping in horror

[bobbolink]

44. Exactly. Whoever wrote those other things doesn't seem to have much of a clue.

[Uncle Joe]

16. More than that it can also mean strong emotion or shock, as a positive example

check out the people; having a new home built for them every Sunday on ABC.

When they first see their new homes, they inevitably cover their mouths.

[DavidDvorkin]

20. Pseudoscience.

[MedicalAdmin]

23. PseudoReply?

[DavidDvorkin]

27. A detailed reply is not required when calling pseudoscience what it is.

[MedicalAdmin]

35. Ooooooookay.

Whatever makes you feel all authoritarian and shit.

[bobbolink]

45. From what I see here, I would tend to agree.

[DavidDvorkin]

51. Clinton says that gesture was because a spring allergy makes her cough

So much for the so-called science of body language.

[emulatorloo]

24. Except she is not having a conversation. She is responding to something she sees on the monitors

Looks like she is gasping in surprise

[LanternWaste]

33. I make that precise gesture when I'm taken aback by a thing.

I make that precise gesture when I'm taken aback or shocked by a thing. I imagine we often see what better validates our opinions-- regardless of the subjective nature of our own inferences.

[NeedleCast]

34. LOL, because she couldn't be stiffling a yawn or cough

It has to be an episode of "Lie to Me."

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[FiveGoodMen]

7. What do you think she's looking at?

[RKP5637]

8. Good question! That's what I was wondering too when I first saw this photo. All of

them are really expressing extreme attention to something being shown.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. I certainly thought they were supposed to be watching the actual raid

but if they had been then there's no reason to go from "shooting at us while hiding behind his wife" to "well... maybe no gun and no human shield"

:wtf:

[MercuryRepeater]

31. I guess it was all just a hoax, huh?

:sarcasm:

[Fastcars]

41. In Saw An Interview With A Bush Advisor...

The video feed they get in the "war room" is from drones/spy satellites, not from the helmet cameras on the soldiers. It was described as the spooky green night-vision videos you see in movies.

[aquart]

12. The same thing the rest of them are looking at.

Do you all think she was hallucinating a separate feed?

[Hosnon]

38. Maybe the moment one of the coptors stalled?

Who knows but that's a good guess in my opinion.

[Enrique]

39. they're watching "The Apprentice" n/t

[RagAss]

10. They were listening to Leon Panetta

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. Maybe suppressing a burp.

Maybe checking the need for a Tic Tac.

Maybe fulfilling your projections.

[Distant Observer]

14. Guess it contrasts with the non-challant expressions on some other faces

[Justitia]

15. I think her posture is fascinating (covering the mouth). I do this also when I hear / see something

shocking, anxiety-filled, etc.

I wonder where it comes from in the psyche? The reflex to cover the mouth? I should read about this somewhere.

However, the moment I saw this picture, it conveyed a thousand thoughts to me, on a primal level.

Also, the most compelling visage in this ensemble is clearly the President - if that isn't a white-hot laser focus of intensity, I don't know what is.
That is the reflection of a brain fully engaged in complexity.

I really wish we would know one day what they are watching - it's an interesting study, isn't it?


Edit to mention: the only person in that room not transfixed on the foreground is the man actually running the operation.

[vaberella]

17. That expression was just not on point.

I don't begrudge feeling emotion. But that is not the expression of a leader. Sorry. I really adore her, but she's not handling this well.

[justiceischeap]

18. Dog forbid a politician show genuine emotion.

That is the expression of someone concerned about something they are seeing. Quite possibly that is the expression of someone seeing someone else get "double-tapped" in real time. If the expression is honest, then it's the expression of a leader. This bullshit notion that you have to be stoic about everything is just that, bullshit.

I like Hillary, I like Obama, neither was my choice for a President but saying her expression isn't one of a leader is just downright silly. Maybe we need a bit more compassion in our politics.

[Urban Prairie]

21. Coincidentally the Wikipedia entry for double-tapped mentions bin-Laden

"On May 1st, 2011 Terrorist Leader, Osama Bin Laden was killed by US Navy SEAL's (SEAL Team 6) using the double tap method."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap

So perhaps that is exactly what was transpiring in the moment captured in the image.

[Amonester]

25. + 1

"we need more compassion in our politics"

[etherealtruth]

29. spot on!

[vaberella]

47. That's not what I said. If you read my post you'd know that.

I said very clearly that it was not an expression I would want to see in a leader when making decisions that could kill our people and others. I mean, you'd have to be able to handle. I know I'd look like that, but I wouldn't want that in my leader. I don't see anything wrong. You have to be able to have a poker face and give up nothing. And her picture....gave up a hell of a lot. Of course it was in privacy. But her horror made me nervous.

[HockeyMom]

19. Actually, I thought she looked LESS haggard

than she has in the past, and certianly, less than Obama has recently.

[Shiver]

26. Looks more thoughtful/pensive to me.

I know I'm not the only one who touches my face in a fashion similar to that when I'm considering something.

[tammywammy]

30. That's my thought as well. n/t

[Dappleganger]

28. She may not have ever seen anyone killed before...

and infrared shows ever single detail so it can be shocking.

[CTyankee]

32. my guess, too I don't think she was emotionally prepared for the brutality of this live video.

AND she was apprehensive that it would'nt work out...

[vaberella]

48. Exactly.

And I don't think I wanted to see that expression on those I put in office to handle this sort of stuff.

[Enrique]

37. have you forgotten Vince Foster

kidding!

:hide:

[Obamanaut]

36. Some people cover their mouth when they burp.. nt

[RandomThoughts]

40. Yea I would read that book.

She is a marvelous Secretary of State.

[Texasgal]

42. Is it possible that she was reacting

to the helicopter that went down?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

43. that is a look of horror and concern.

The last time I saw something on TV that shocked me and I covered my mouth in horror, was the day I turned on the TV and the planes had hit the World Trade Center on 9/11.

A lot of those people in the briefing pictures had "HOLY SHIT!" expressions.

People are now realizing how hard the President's job is in foreign relations and wars and spying and all that.
They have to make very difficult decisions that the public will never know about.

[AtomicKitten]

46. Maybe she just had funky breath and was just being socially responsible.

[vaberella]

49. ROFL! n/t

[Raine]

50. To me it looks like she's worried and concerned about everything going as planned. nt

[snooper2]

52. Why don't you read what she wrote about that picture