Has anyone noticed that Romney and Ryan have bloodless lips that seem to signify all the passion of lemons, the souls of snakes and the hearts of artichokes?
Look closely at those tight, compressed lines across the bottom of both their faces after every lie or exaggeration. The mouths must be telling us something above and beyond the words that come out of them.
Do you think this an unfair observation? Well, it could be - if it were not part and parcel of a bigger package.
Leslie Savan in The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/blog/169232/what-mitt-romneys-body-language-trying-tell-us) gave us an interesting portrait of Mitt by using his body language to tell us things he probably would prefer we not know:
"...[d]uring a photo op in Israel earlier
this week, as the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the
United States stood next to the relaxed and voluble Benjamin Netanyahu like an animatronic prop".
"...[c]heck out Mitt’s arms: they’re held stiffly at his sides, hands below the belt; no gestures for him and no self-assertion at all. Maybe the problem was that, even though Romney was trying to talk “tough” about Iran, his body knew that simply parroting whatever Bibi (and Sheldon Adelson) want him to say is anything but tough. So his body tried to shout, “Weak!” Just look at the symbolism of the old chums’ relative body language: Bibi grabs the mic, Bibi grabs Mitt’s hand for the shake; Romney, meanwhile, is all deference and obedient schoolboy, and about as commanding as one."
A scary assessment of a potential leader of the free world.
And even Dan Ackroyd noticed his "funny walk," suggesting he might be wearing a girdle.
Are we being unfair? I don't think so.
Think of the lives that might have been saved if, before we allowed the Supremes to choose Bush the Lesser, we had noted the swagger, the beady little eyes and the fact that he dropped everything he touched.
Even animals understand body language. We ignore these revelations at our peril.
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