What Next?

If you’re so inclined, you might want to look at an article in the LA Times trying to divine useful information about Sens. Clinton, McCain, and Obama by analyzing their handwriting:

Assuming handwriting can’t be any less reliable an indicator of character than eating waffles, drinking a boilermaker or holding forth on a bus called the Straight Talk Express, three court-certified graphologists gleaned the following by looking at writing samples from Obama, Clinton and McCain:

Despite the charges of elitism flying around, none of the 2008 presidential candidates is a snob. Equally encouraging, all of them appear intelligent and driven.

But two, the experts said, strive to remain opaque amid the public glare. Two are reluctant to embrace their family legacies. One lacks warmth, whereas another can talk to almost anyone. One is flexible, another controlled, the third a loose cannon.

The graphologists analyzed signatures and writing samples from the three candidates — thank-you notes from Clinton and Obama and book pages inscribed by McCain.

Despite vast policy differences, McCain and Obama have something in common signature-wise — illegibility, which suggests a need for privacy or an aversion to transparency.

I’d have more confidence in the analysis of the experts if I were certain they didn’t know the identities of the people whose handwriting they were analyzing.

But sheesh, what’s next? Checking the bumps on their heads?

FWIW Sen. Clinton is a Scorpio, Sen. McCain a Virgo, and Sen. Obama is a Leo.

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