News and Politics | October 11, 2008 | 18 comments

Body politics: Sarah Palin's body language and why it should worry you

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathlyn-and-gay-hendricks/body-politics-sarah-palin_b_132785.html

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Since our last post, we've been asked many times to comment on Sarah Palin's mannerisms. Her Body-Talk is not as blatant as her running mate, probably because she has a background as a performer in beauty pageants and television. She has learned to conceal the smirks and clenches that play so openly across the countenance of John McCain.

In our work we call body language the Five Flags, because there are five major ways human beings react when they're not speaking the authentic truth. Twitches and jaw-clenches are examples of Flag #1, Body-Flags. To understand Sarah Palin, though, you need to understand Flags #2 and #3, Voice-Flags and Attitude-Flags. The English word 'personality' comes from two Latin words, per and sona, "through sound." The Romans knew that the personality comes through in the tone of voice and other vocal aspects.
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18 comments // Body politics: Sarah Palin's body language and why it should worry you

  • sail4life8
  • powerhungry
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      powerhungry  

    • I was actually hoping this was an interesting news article. I had taken a course in body language during my resort management class (6 weeks). This turned out to be a bashing and not news at all.
      I then noticed it was the Huffington Post. Enough said.
      Very little of the article is factual as it pertains to the science of body language. They speak more of what was said than what actions the body did.

      Examples:
      1. "Palin start using more of those pseudo-folksy expressions such as "You betcha" and "doggone-it."

      2. "To emphasize certain points, Sarah Palin takes her voice up the tone scale to a metallic shriek."

      3. "Sarah Palin has mastered one fundamental requirement of a Republican president: she can smile and look you directly in the eye while telling an outrageous lie"

      #3 Had no example of what they were talking about and is an opinion and not fact.

      Bottom line...The Huffington Post is about as close to good journalism as Rush Limbaugh is. Its entertainment at best.

    • 3 years ago
  • DeliaTheArtist
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      DeliaTheArtist  

    • "probably because she has a background as a performer in beauty pageants and television" - interesting point. I'd say that's why the McCain camp picked her, for the publicity and distraction value. Once I understood what she actually believes in, it was pretty much impossible for me to support her.

    • 3 years ago
  • ChristmasAsen
  • ChristmasAsen
  • krush_productions
  • ChristmasAsen
  • powerhungry
  • lil_momma
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      lil_momma  

    • she is a dim-witteed girl who i do not want running this country...she will be president if McCain is elected(God forbid he is)because i feel he is going to kill over as soon as he gets in...Oh my can you imagine..how embarrassed i will be as a woman

    • 3 years ago
  • ChristmasAsen
  • powerhungry
  • ChristmasAsen
  • powerhungry
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      powerhungry  
    • lil_momma:

      Do you think the phrase "the separation of church and state" is found in the United States Constitution? If you answered "yes," you are 100 percent wrong! The Constitution never uses the phrase, "separation of church and state." The Constitutions first amendment simply says that Congress shall make no law establishing a national religion and neither shall it prohibit religion.

      You couldnt have found "separation of church and state" in any state constitution back in 1789 either. All the states were openly Christian (except for Rhode Island), and most of them had state-financed churches.

      It was Thomas Jefferson who used this phrase in a letter written to a group of Baptist pastors in Danbury, Connecticut in 1802. The purpose of the letter was to assure those Baptist pastors that Jeffersons somewhat unorthodox view of Christianity would not be pressed on the Church in the United States during his presidency.

      President Jefferson assured them that there is a wall of separation that supposedly protects the Church from any undue meddling by the state. The irony is that the phrase never implied that the state needed to be protected from the Church: Jefferson was guaranteeing the Church the benefit of the Wall.

      The contemporary anti-Christian religious establishment has turned the issue completely on its head by redefining the phrase. This trick is called "historical revisionism." Historical revisionism twists history and interprets it for ones own purposes

      Here is what some past presidents thought of this.
      George Washington: "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

      John Adams: "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people ... so great is my veneration of the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens in their country and respectful members of society."

      Thomas Jefferson: "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students; perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands."

      Andrew Jackson: "That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our Republic rests."

      Benjamin Franklin: "A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know the price of the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved."

      William Penn: "If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants."

      Ulysses S. Grant: "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future ;Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any peoples;"

      Sorry for the wall of text but as a History major, I get mad when people try to twist history for their own lame attemp at an argument.

    • 3 years ago
  • ChristmasAsen
  • powerhungry
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      powerhungry  
    • lil_momma:

      You have a validi point. Religion comes from the Greek word: Religio which means "Return to slavery" Its a means to control peolpe.

      Dont let me confuse you. I DO NOT beleive religion is good. As a matter of fact, Yasua (Jesus) didnt either.
      What I beleive is that when a person has a REAL and GENUINE relationship with his or her Creator is what is truely great. You are the person you were meant to be. I am not perfect and I make mistakes on a minute by minute basis.

      I dont want this to come across as though I am better than you because I am not. You might very well be better as a human being than I am.

      My point in all of this is this: When you have that relatioship with your Creator, you become a better person. Better than without him. The world around you becomes better but with all things man gets his dirty little hands on, he / she screws it up.

      A govt with a TRUE Christian leader like those of early America, we are a great nation under God, indivisable, with liberty and justice for ALL.

    • 3 years ago
  • judiestar
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