McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere - Readers' Comments - The New York Times

BODY LANGUAGE
McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere - Readers' Comments - The New York Times: "Talk about body language--McCain's most powerful mode of communication in the debate was non-verbal. By failing to make eye-contact with Obama, or even to look at him, he was using my elitist grandmother's language translated into body-language. My grandmother, who regarded herself as upper class, would state that she 'did not notice' people who were below her caste. These included tradesmen, blacks, Italians and Irish immigrants, servants and Jews.

McCain was using body language to talk in code to white voters who feel that Obama's candidacy is a threat to their entitlements. McCain did not 'notice' Obama but did disdainfully let him babble on for a while, while sneering. I'm sure some slave owners behaved similarly."