Ever Notice the Way John & Theresa Greet People?

They come out and put their hands together (kind of like when you get your kids to pray at night) and bow to the people.

"Ever notice how they kiss each other? Looks like she really doesn't love him."

There is not a 'genuine' body contact between the two, yet to be publicly observed! Worse, when he get a few inches from her face; she goes into a 'freeze frame' expression.

God-awful to have to pretend that in front of the masses; of course, if 'they' win; all pretense is off. Of course.

The Heinz-Kerry's are doing Namaste. No particular surpise, since her first son, who does not support Kerry, is a Buddhist. Namaste is definitely a pc greeting. Here's some info about it from a Hindu site:

About NAMASTE
”For, Hindu(s), of course, the greeting of choice is "Namaste," the two hands pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed as one says, "Namaste." Thus it is both a spoken greeting and a gesture, a Mantr(a) and a Mudr(a). The prayerful hand position is a Mudr(a) called Anjali, from the root Anj, "to adorn, honor, celebrate or anoint." The hands held in union signify the oneness of an apparently dual cosmos, the bringing together of spirit and matter, or the self meeting the Self. It has been said that the right hand represents the higher nature or that which is divine in us, while the left hand represents the lower, worldly nature.

”By a handshake we acknowledge our equality with others. We reveal our humanity. We convey how strong we are, how nervous, how aggressive or passive. There is bold physicality to it. For these and other reasons, Popes never shake hands. Kings never shake hands. Even mothers don't shake hands with their own children.

“Namaste is cosmically different. Kings do namaste, Sat Guru(s) namaste and mothers namaste to their own family. We all namaste before the Almighty, a holy man or even a holy place. The namaste gesture bespeaks our inner valuing of the sacredness of all. It betokens our intuition that all souls are divine, in their essence….”

Much more at link below:

http://www.flex.com/~jai/articles/namaste1.html

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