a sign of things to come

here’s a quirky little story for you.  us president barack obama has started a fewpeople talking about the strange way he signed the 750 billion dollar stimulus package.  to the highly unbservant person, obama signs left handed and he hands gets contorted into this strange twisted curl of his wrist.  i never thought too much of it but then you can see he’s definitely curling his wrist.

to me, the average left hander, when signing or writing, i believe their knuckls are facing about 10 o’clock.  however if you look closely you can see his knuckles are pointing straight forward at the 12 o’clock position.  which even to us righthanders who’s knuckles are closer to 1 o’clock do find it a little weird.

he actually also closes his eyes too when he signs things, which is strange.  cause i was always thought to keep my eyes open when i had to write things down.  especially when i had to sign sheets of paper. but obama is made of magic so i think he could do anything with his eyes closed. 

this story, highlighted by the brilliant jeanie moos from cnn in the following package.

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i don’t know if this is a strange phomenon of obama, or do most left handed people do it to avoid smudging the ink.  i have a few friends who are left handed and to my memory they do not write in such a manner.  i used to remark as a child how i felt it was strange that they would write with theirs left handed not knowing that there are people in this world who write left handed.  but i never felt it to be as unique as president obama’s

this was also an excuse for me to put up waaay too many photos of obama.  i’m alright with the way he signs i guess, but jeannie moos always has a great way to telling the quirkier stories on cnn.  check it out

cheers,