In a live debate where the listener of arguments also views the two parties, body language has a profound impact.

It is this body language that leaves a residue long after each point of argument. To explain this physical element of persuasion, I will draw on my impression from a few debates between Presidential nominees Barrack Hussein Obama and Alan Keyes.

At the core of these debates is the Christian profile each candidate brings to persuade voters in Illinois for support; and who declare themselves Christians as well. Other domestic and foreign subjects were compared; however, the core of the man is exposed regarding his understanding of Christian principals from the author…Jesus Christ.

The resulting value of allegiance each man seeks is in direct proportion to how well- educated is each individual in the audience. I will confine my framework of education as; American History, the Works of the Founding Fathers and the Christian Principals that guided their forming the United States of America. The ‘form’ is embodied in the Constitution. I burden the audience, as well as the debating celebrities with this education.

If this American-educational discipline and criteria were to be the filter through which all present at the debate would use, I would say that Alan Keyes gave a surgeon’s skilled argument and won the debate. Example: The articulation of Alan Keyes far outshone the hesitation of Barack Obama. One had to be, pre-tuned to Constitutional discipline to understand Keyes. Barrack Obama had an adolescent grip on both Christianity and Constitutional principals. A listener who is adolescent-minded with a public school truncated glimpse of American History was impressed with Obama and thus gave him intimate allegiance. Keyes retained the admiration of those knowing the English language and who exercised reason easily. These two combatants balanced on the word game. However, the body language is what gave the subliminal and residual effect to the public. What were the differences in body language?

Barrack Obama, hesitant, presented facial curiosity and was humbly soft spoken. He did not use his hands to speak. Alan Keyes had raised eyebrows presenting aloofness. Keyes had his hands out front as a baker manipulates dough, to embellish is eloquently reasoned words. Keyes thus forced the eye to follow the hands. No matter how enjoyable the honed reasoning the argumentative point was, the hands fragmented the flow, such that it was a chore to fully digest the words. Word retention with the weight of reason was forgotten; Keyes aloof image and hand exclamations stayed within the eye.

The public’s allegiance is sensitive to visual association with empathy for their dreams; and the cadence of platitudes from Obama is mesmerizing. These tricks were addressed by Keyes, but with to many technical adjectives and aloofness. Getting down and dirty at the level of simple language and human body language; contempt is needed. Reagan often said. “Here we go again,” when a platitude to fool the ‘people’ was exposed. Thus Reagan tattooed the stamp of contempt immediately followed every false point of liberal ‘begging’ that was presented. Reagan often humbly conceded to the other side; confessing to believing those phony platitudes when he was still an ‘adolescent Democrat.’ To make this non-aloof concession elevates one’s standing to the average citizen.

Eloquence is admirable when one speaks as Winston Churchill, alone at the podium. However, a competitor for political victory in persuasion, must immerse him or herself into the target-audience, the people, and withhold, self-adulation and selling eloquence. Personal achievement is not the primary product of a political debate. Physically projecting humility and speaking as if you are the voice of the honorable ‘people’ is the noble profile of a true statesman.

A US President has two fundamental jobs. One is the Commander in Chief of our national defense; the other is to be sole spokesman for our nation’s resolve to all foreign nations. This is clear, so as to leave no doubt, and to avoid miscalculation from all.

A third job is most important as well. It is the exclusive direct-communication to all citizens of the nation. The communication must be humble, true; informing each citizen on a daily bases the reasoning for the application of all efforts of the two jobs mentioned above. An informed citizen’s empathy to occupy the Presidents shoes is fitting.

The single body-language that adversely effected the George W. Bush Presidency was the “Smirk.” This involuntary facial deformity was joined by, the “Smirk” of Vice President Richard B. Cheney. This physical veil hid the important words and deeds of the Presidency. It was subliminally offensive to any audience; even to sympathetic journalists. Once administered, the ‘smirk,’ resulted in creative contempt, to be the highlight residue of the national subject discussed. When this subliminal body-language is repeated it becomes expected and dismantles the statesman resolve needed in effective leadership.