Words from the SoapBox

I just wanted to share something that I noticed about Obama’s speech.  I didn’t feel that much of what he was talking about was the best idea for our future, and I didn’t feel that he was following through with his promises to unite and rebuild the integrity of our government.  But the one thing I noticed more than anything else is that I think he didn’t believe in what he was saying.

If you watch his speech, you will notice that he never looked into the camera, to speak to the public directly.  He consistently directed his gaze to the press, the people he knows support him and his ideas 100%. He only looked into the camera once, and he looked somewhat terrified, and quickly looked away.

Speech diagnosis experts will tell you that his failure to look into the camera shows that he either does not believe that what he is saying will really work, or he is lying. Obama is a professional speaker, he knows that it is important to look at the people you are speaking to, to let them know that you have confidence in what you are saying, and his failure to do so, as a professional speaker, convinces me that something is wrong, and he knows it.

His ability to speak made me listen to his speech and, maybe, began to make me think about what he was suggesting but, his failure to show that he believed what he was saying, proved to me that he knows that there is simply a political game going on.

Sent to me by Michael Kilgus