Obama is sinister?

[question everything]

During the ABC debate, I thought that he held a pen with his left hand.






No, silly, that's being left handed.

From the Latin word for "left" - sinistra.

In the Middle Ages, left handed people were considered being possessed by the devil, or something.

Hey, don't flame. My spouse is left handed as was my dad. My dad cheerfully noted that my spouse was "lefty" when they first met. And, of course, in both our families, "lefty" has been a badge of honor..

All the 1992, candidates - Bush, Clinton and Perot - are left handed.

[niyad]

1. did you know that one of the worries about left-handers had to do with swords?

the shaking of right hands by men armed with swords was taken as a sign of non-aggression--since the sword hand of both men was otherwise engaged. a left-hander could still pull the weapon.

[PATRICK]

2. I thought it was more about number

2 functions of the right hand. I'm a left-handed, part righty btw so its impossible to make a simple sanitary presumption in my case.

[TahitiNut]

3. No. He's gauche.

:dunce:

[question everything]

7. Good one! (nt)

[damntexdem]

9. Yes, very dextrous.

[David__77]

4. Yay! He's left-handed like me and my whole family!

Both my parent, me and my brother, and Obama, all left-handed!

[WinkyDink]

5. Some of us lefties know this kind o'stuff. :)

[elocs]

6. Left handers use both sides of their brain more easily.

http://michellemalkin.com/2006/12/10/sunday-fun-left-handed-compliment/

"Left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport, say Australian researchers. Connections between the left and right hand sides or hemispheres of the brain are faster in left-handed people, a study in Neuropsychology shows.

The fast transfer of information in the brain makes left-handers more efficient when dealing with multiple stimuli. Experts said left-handers tended to use both sides of the brain more easily.
Study leader Dr Nick Cherbuin from the Australian National University measured transfer time between the two sides of the brain by measuring reaction times to white dots flashed to the left and right of a fixed cross. He then compared this with how good participants were at carrying out a task to spot matching letters in the left and right visual fields, which would require them to use both sides of the brain at the same time.

Tests in 80 right-handed volunteers showed there was a strong correlation between how quickly information was transferred across the left and right hemispheres and how quickly people spotted matching letters. But when the tests were repeated in 20 left-handed volunteers, the researchers found that the more left-handed people were, the better they were at processing information across the two sides of the brain.

[slackmaster]

8. My ex-wife is a southpaw and has some amazing talents

She's also a total space cadet in some ways.