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Marco Rubio was certainly composed in his speech tonight but the real tall cool glass of water was resting off-camera. Rubio is generating some positive instant reactions for his rebuttal to President Obama s State of the Union address Tuesday night. But there was one undeniably unusual moment that is sure to be remembered: Rubio awkwardly reaching for a bottle of water and making a grimace face in the act.

About midway through his roughly 10-minute speech, Rubio moved to grab a drink of water from a plastic bottle resting just off-camera. He then leaned at a stretched angle as he attempted to grab the water while struggling to stay within the camera s frame of view.

After taking a quick drink, Rubio then made a constrained facial expression, in a seemingly self-conscious moment.

Though it was far from a devastating 2Pacalypse development for the Florida senator, the candid moment showcased the competing pressures on figures like Rubio during a televised address: to appear both relaxed and entirely composed at the same time. But even the most polished speakers are only human and need to pause for a quick sip of water from time to time.

And give the man some credit, he certainly has a sense of humor. Or, at the very least a quick social media team. Just moments after completing his speech, Rubio posted a link to his personal Twitter account that takes readers to a photo of a bottle of Poland Spring bottled water.