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It is quite facinating learning something about the teenage times of persons of public interest. A video, possibly showing the president of the US, Barack Obama, on a Tag Team Video. Whoomp - there (he) is... at approximately 1:00 in the video. But lets see if we can find clues or good evidence to say that Barack Obama can be really seen on the video. At first sight it does indeed seem to be the President hin his early life.

The video on YouTube shows at 1:00 a person on the phone smiling towards the camera. If on sees the video (here) at first sight it does seem to be the president of the US. But in order to be sure, I will establish a number of facial marks and see if there is evidence that it is Barack Obama in his wild times attending Tag-Teams Whoomp videoshot.

From the official photo and the Whoomp video, one can establish at 5 marks. The eyes, normally a very good mark, are covered by sunglasses, so Obama must have anticipated his presidency that early and was partying undercover. While marveling at his foresight, lets establish the marks in order infer if the President was Whoomping. (known as the Obama-Whoomp-Theory)

The nose	The ear	The mouth	The chin	The hand

The facial setup is genetically determined, so it is possible to infer to the president identity based upon marks in the five facial region. One good indicator would be eye-distance, but since the presidents eyes are covered by sunglasses, this mark cannot be considered.

Please see the video on YouTube in order to get a impression on what this article is all about. You got it? Let's start right away with the nose.

 Notice the mark here: the birthmark on the left side of the nose. Seeing the video one is not able to see any birthmark directly or obviously. The quality of the video is not very good and the light setting produces a lot of shadow. On the other hand there is one shot in the video where you can see a dark spot inside the nosehill shadow, exactly at the position where the president has his birthmark. It is located at the end of the laugh line close to the nose. The first shot you see the dark spot relatively slightly. But the fact that the young president surely had a make-up before the videoshot, this explains the faint spot. On the other hand, the spot is not seen on all the other frames of that video, due to unfavorable shadows. Nevertheless we can make up a faint dark spot in the right place, that springs out of the surrounding shadow.

Notice the outer shape of the ear. The form is almost identical and both shots have the same angle, from the front. The ear goes from the top point of the ear straight down, then does a sharp turn to the right and smooth out going down. We find the same pattern in the official photo and in the videoshot. The form of  ear is a unique feature of the human being. Especially the earshape in terms of angle and length is used in biometrics, with a very good accuracy. So the earshape gives us another clue who this sympathic guy acually is.

The laughing smile of the guy in the video has a certain form. Note the mark that the lower right of his mouth has a slight drag down. So it is not absolutely symmetrical. There are many photos on the internet, that shows Obama smiling - with the same drag to his lower right mouth that we see here. As a consequence the lower left part of the mouth has a slight upward drag, and again you can make out that feature on the Whoomp-Video. For comparison take a photo by Terry Richardson you'll find here and you see the special symmetry of the presidents laugh. In my opinion another clue that Obama was hooping and slam dunking with the Tag Team.

The chim of the guy in the video is pretty covered by his right hand holding the phone. But the facial form, the rigth cheek down to chim, appears to be the same as that of the president Obama. Nevertheless the facial form is probably not the best indicator, as it is not a very distinctive feature of a person.

Just wonder what he is doing right in this moment. Maybee Michelle phoned and promised him a date if he could manage to get a signature of the famous D.C., thus searching for a pen. We do not know what he was searching for, but he did it with his left hand.

All five clues together support the theory that the actual president of the United States  can be seen in that video of the Tag Team. In my opinion and with the clues in mind: Whoomp - there he is!

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