Politicians exhibit the worst, most embarrassing gesticulations when speaking. President Obama's mostly stationary fist that he occasionally waggles slightly is actually one of the better ones and it isn't all that great. Heretofore, the lamest, most cringeworthy hand movement was probably that of Michael Dukakis, the benign, milquetoast former Governor of Massachusetts who lost to George H. W. Bush in the 1988 Presidential Election.
But Dukakis has now been trumped by GOP Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. Perhaps a little fittingly, her hand motions make it appear she's simultaneously screwing in two wing nuts or maybe smoking two cigarettes at once, but not in the workmanlike way, the index and middle finger combo used by almost everyone, but in the utterly pretentious, Albert Camus style, between the thumb and forefinger.
Things have gotten so bad that it's about time we brought in the world's leading experts on hand gestures: rappers. Old school or new school, doesn't matter, just get get every Presidential candidate a rapper consultant to teach him/her some decent handwork!
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