The Eyes Have It

I have a question. I’m sure some body language expert somewhere can tell us about what significance eye blinking has in a conversation. I was watching the tube again with the sound off the other night and on one of the news channels I watched the commentators, and noticed the men blink rarely. As the women spoke as they made a strong point and gestured they would blink and usually twice. It seemed that their eye blinks indicated they were stressing a point. Then I watched a few commercials. Nobody blinked, indicating honesty I suppose.

Obama didn’t blink until he shut up. Clinton is a lip licker and blinks double too. Larry King was wide eyed (he really is starting look bad though, he doesn’t look healthy at all). I didn’t see McCain, but Huckabee, if his eyelids were fan blades we would be in a hurricane talking with him. To me he looked dishonest. I know, he’s supposed to be the righteous equivalent of a Barry Goldwater, but he looks like a slime ball to me. Romney was out of the race, so I didn’t get his blink rate, but I can see an occasional blink in my minds eye, but nothing like good old St. Huckabee.

I don’t know what any of that means, but I’m finding an interesting thing happening here in Romney country. Romney fans don’t want to vote for McCain. Fair enough. But if he puts Huckabee on the ticket with him (can he really avoid it now?) these same Romney folks want to vote for Obama! Now how does that make sense? Conservatives, won’t vote for the closest thing they have to it, in favor of a liberal? Why, because he speaks well? Probably. I said here before he is sounding themes in a Kennedy style. Some think its Martin Luther King’s style. It doesn’t matter which it is. He is promising to look to the future, to bring Shambala, (i.e. Camelot) with “Vigah” and style. He is making it work too. If he can convince the reddest state in the nation to go blue next election, more power to him. Just a word of warning though to those voters who are falling on the bandwagon, look beyond the rhetoric and look at what he wants to do

He wants to surrender in Iraq. He wants to nationalize health care. He wants to raise taxes. He wants to spend money. It sounds an awful lot like Bill Clinton, let alone Hillary. To go from the conservative camp to Obama’s reminds me of a turkey volunteering for Thanksgiving dinner. I hope the voters brains aren’t in the same category as the turkey.