Hillary & Body Language 101

NOTE TO HILLARY: Stop shaking your head “NO” whenever your talking points require a “YES” nod. Stop moving your head back and forth when you should be moving it up and down. It’s a little thing, I know, but it’s a little thing that voters notice. It’s a little thing that could cost you the Presidential election next year.

Do you know what I’m talking about?

Do you even realize that you’re not coordinating your head nods to what you’re actually saying in your speeches and interviews?

You do it all the time. Your latest uncoordinated nodding took place last Sunday on “Face the Nation.” Remember? Whenever you seemed to open up and relax during the interview, you started nodding your head back and forth — the unmistakable body language of “NO” in our Western culture. A distinctly negative sign. And you did it when you were speaking in positive, life-affirming tones. You nodded “NO” when you were telling interviewer John Dickerson how much you liked and admired Bernie Saunders and how determined you were to launch a positive — not a negative — campaign.

Once you get a little animated, you start nodding your head back and forth in that recognizable “NO” movement.

Of course, your body language is a subconscious, subliminal thing. It’s something you probably don’t even notice. It’s something that might be related to a physical or nervous quirk. But whenever a candidate keeps saying “YES” and nodding “NO,” a credibility gap emerges. Citizens who want to vote for you start hesitating — as in “I like her, BUT I’M NOT SURE.” You know what I mean. You’ve heard it all before:

I like her, but there’s something about her I don’t like…

I’m not sure.

I like her ideas, I want to vote for her…but I just don’t trust her.

I want to vote for her, but…there’s something about her I don’t like. I just don’t know what it is…

Well, I know what it is: You nod your head the wrong way when you’re talking! Whenever you’re affirming something and saying “YES” to it, so to speak, you’re NOT nodding your head up and down in the “YES” position. You’re shaking your head back and forth to signify a definite “NO” Why do you do that?

More importantly, WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THAT?

Stop it! Start studying films of yourself giving speeches and interviews, and you’ll start understanding how your body language is communicating hypocrisy — i.e., as in you’ll say one thing but do another, completely different thing once you get elected.

With your husband, former President Bill Clinton, voters didn’t immediately trust him. But they liked him, they really liked him. So they voted for him.

But with you, they don’t trust you at all, and they really don’t like you. So stop giving voters reasons to go Republican in this next Presidential election. Correct and redirect the nodding — NOW.