The peasants... I mean the average Americans have dangerous cooties.
Very... Manchurian.
I'm sure there is some body english in there that says, "Oh, look at the little people coming to see us!"
Are you joking? I guess I've never watched them greet crowds. Suppose they don't want to touch the Great Unwashed?
Did you see him bounce the soccer ball off that girls head the other day and then smack her upside the head? What was that? Are we their playthings?
It looked totally disrespectful to me!
It's a gloabally PC greeting. It combines a little from everywhere. I noticed the phenomenon mid-way thru the Clinton regime's gig. It reminds me of something in Star Trek which Spock initiates when dealing with other Vulcans.
It's his entire smarmy hand-gestures that get me. Have you ever counted all the phony gestures? The quick point of a finger at a person followed by the knowing grin. The praying hands. The uplifted hands. The clenched fists, especially at NAACP meetings. It all smacks of insincerity and insecurity.
Compare JFK's to GWB's gestures. GWB;s are clearly those of a confident leader.
It's a Buddhist greeting... he must have learned it from his secret CIA mission into Cambodia.
Ever notice how they kiss each other? Looks like she really doesn't love him.
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