John McCain Shows Barack Obama How to Honor 911 Victims – Body Language Analysis
Both John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their Presidential campaigning on 9-11 to honor the victims killed in New York by Arab Muslim terrorists. I explain the body language with video stills below to help you see what is going on.
In this first picture below notice the handshake. This handshake is called the Submissive Handshake, and Barack Obama is being submissive, while John McCain is being dominant. Obama’s palm is facing upward, while McCain’s is facing downward. Symbolically this is giving the dominant person the "upper hand," like a dog exposing its throat to a superior dog. A proper handshake is taught in business school, and politicians, especially politicians who will be dealing with foreign diplomats and leaders in international and foreign policy affairs. A weak or submissive handshake sends the message, via body language, that the person is weak. We wouldn’t want countries around the world to think we are weak. I guarantee agressive countries that hate America are analyzing the body language, and words, of McCain and Obama to determine their strengths and weaknesses.
In the next two video stills McCain and Obama are adding their own rose to honor the victims of 911. As Michelle Malkin points out, Obama THROWS his rose, which shows disregard and disrespect, while McCain lays his rose down, which is proper respect and regard for the victims and the loss their families have experienced. Obama wants to be the leader of the free world (the United States), but he routinely makes mistakes like this. The President is not something that allows "on the job training," as Joe Biden said recently.
Obama’s rose flies into the pile.
John McCain was tortured and held as a prisoner of war for 5 years. As a result he cannot put his arms up above his head, nor can McCain bend one of his knees. Despite his physical difficulties, McCain bends down, and LAYS his rose on the memorial.
Obama is young and able to bend down, but he just doesn’t understand proper etiquette in these important situations, like a world leader should. This is because of Obama’s lack of experience. McCain is 72 years-old, and his lifetime of experience is demonstrated here.
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Also stop throwing around the the word “ignorance” everyone is ignorant to a lot of things, I bet you don’t know anything about the cultures of New Zealand. Have some respect please.
P.S. ironic that you said learn how to spell “ridiculous” and you spelled ignorance “ingnorance”. Also there is a spell checker on this page, so. . .
McCain has better body language… that’s why in the debate he didn’t look into Obama’s eyes for the duration of the handshake and why he started to turn away. You can analyze body language all you like, you’ll find that it is much to complex to come to a valid conclusion and that even by analyzing a certain photo or event that it does not necessarily speak for the person at all times. Good try though.
P.S. the under handshake could be a sign of respect for an elder or opponent, no one can ever be 100% on this type of judgment.
I love to read HG for its’ gossip and not on your political view that I can go else where. It is so obvious that you on the McCain wagon but lets just move on and start bring some joy to readers.
where did you go to school to learn how to read body language? what type degree did you get? what was your major?
thanks.
***HG says***
You can always look up the information from this article on Google to confirm my analysis. It’s accurate.
“McCain is 72 years-old, and his lifetime of experience is demonstrated here.”
Which is why he chose Palin as his VP? Give me a break.
Sorry, but first of all learn how to spell ridiculous! Body language is an ESSENTIAL part of being a diplomat! It just goes to show the ingnorance of some people.
this is rediculous….
***HG says***
These are the facts. The majority of our communication is through body language, even if we don’t always understand the body language we use, our body displays it anyway.
I think there are enough problems in the usa and with foreign policy for differentiating future presidents on etiquette or body language to be an incredibly ridiculous exercise.
Respect and regard in their policies for the sufferers mean a lot more than lip service and spin, so i wouldnt make any judgements on something this minor.
My 8 year old watched the above video with me and before we read the comments under each photo he pointed out the disrespect that Obama showed by THROWING his rose! Its pretty obvious when an 8 year old can see the difference!!!
What a load of nonsense. At 30 frames / second and thousands of frames to choose from you, could have picked whatever you wanted to support any outcome you chose to.
Better luck next time.