"McCain, she says, has a smallish nose and large, flared nostrils. The details of the Republican presidential nominee's schnoz tell Rosetree that McCain is “a relatively big spender” and “adventurous” with money. The rough texture of his nose tip and the slight angle toward the right suggest he’s not likely to change his spendthrift ways anytime soon."

...Or would Earth Liberation Front be too pissed off that their leader didn't get the post?

I wasted three or four minutes of my life skimming this claptrap. When I "read" my own face, I see a fool who just got suckered.

Why couldn't you have a psychologist using the affect theory of Silvan Tomkins--which has been verified cross-culturally by Paul Ekman--to analyze video of Obama and McCain to reveal their basic affects? We'd learn a lot more than this drivel.

...Is ‘Editorial Fellow’ Salon speak for ‘Intern’?

Yes folks, your favorite candidate will be dunking his dong in a bucket of dental plaster for clues into his, well, something.

There is a school of psychology that reads facial musculature with great precision and uses it to identify emotional expressiveness - this is a science, with reliable scoring and valid predictions. The crap in this article wastes our time and actively misleads. If this was meant to be humor, it lacks it.

Does she also read the bumps on people's heads? Tea leaves?

Can she remove evil spells?

John McCain has had extensive reconstructive surgery to one side of his face and neck due to his malignant melanoma. I notice your face expert doesn't even mention that. I mean come on - how can a "face expert" not even fleetingly mention that her face reading can only apply to one side of this man's head? And who knows if he hasn't had less extensive surgery to the other side of his face?

Duh.

You're better off asking 2 year olds who they think is better.

I'm pleased to see from the previous letters that Salon readers are bright enough to recognize nonsense when they read it, even if Salon editors are not.

You need to obtain stool samples and read them if you want to know the truth. If they are firm, robust and float, then they are presidential.

Reading entrails is far more accurate, but the candidates and the Secret Service may have a problem with that.

I look forward to your report with bated breath on the edge of my seat in rapt anticipation.

Rose Rosetree interviewed by Salon? I'm thrilled, despite the disparaging letters that precede mine here.

Reading people deeper is my passion. Elsewhere, including my blog, I have done very detailed face reading on all four candidates named in this article. It was fun to read Face Reading lite, as dispensed by Salon reporter Gabriel Winant. You are cordially invited to follow up by learning more about a serious form of inquiry into character with a 5,000-year history.

I enjoyed Winant's wry and witty prose, had fun reading his handsome face (off the record) during our interview, and only wish his finished article had included my quote about "Tax-cut-and-spend Republicans."

How weird is the work to which I have dedicated decades of my career? It involves the equivalent of holding up a magnifying glass to people, seeking to learn more about who they really are.

At Brandeis U., my alma mater, I loved the motto: "Truth, even unto its innermost parts." In my way I have continued to seek exactly that ever since graduating in 1969. I happen to believe that the best tool we have for learning useful truths about people is not science but consciousness.

Therefore, I don't just teach workshops internationally and sell books in America and worldwide on face reading. I also hold trademarks for my innovations in the use of consciousness for opening doors of perception: face reading, aura reading, skills for empaths, and cutting cords of attachment.

If you bring an open mind to my blog, you may enjoy articles where I have done detailed readings of politicians, athletes, and a variety of other newsmakers. (My recent favorite is the one about ample evidence of narcissism in the aura of that "You Betcha" gal, Sarah Palin.)

At my main website, you can find books that could turn YOU into a precise and accurate face reader.

Some Salon readers will scoff. Apart from the glee of scoffing, they may otherwise lose out, since others of you may wind up learning skill sets like face reading. Aura reading, for instance, can give you the ability to do three extremely accurate lie detector tests, tell if someone you're hiring or dating has a problem with alcohol, and more. You can learn to do this from Internet photos, too.

And scoffers, beware. We can read you just fine.

If more people learned, we would have very different elections, for starters. I always precede my comments for quote with what I told Mr. Winant: First study the records and platforms of politicians. Then read them deeper.

I am proud to represent those of us who use skill sets like face reading and aura reading, applying our expertise to politics. For a professional in the field, this is not what is meant by "we read people every day, based on how they look." The accurate term for that is "face judging," not face reading.

Idiocy is the answer.

Idiocy.

Paglia and Kaufman are the only exceptions.

Phrenology, craniometry and physiognomy have all "claimed the ability to predict personality traits or intelligence (in fields such as anthropology/ethnology), and were sometimes posed to scientifically justify racism."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

You can look at people's eyes, and tell whether they lie. I do not remember any details whatsoever, but...

When people speak, if they look up or down, right or left... This has a real correlation with truths and lies. I will dig through my mountain of papers to try to find the details. In the meantime, other posters might know and post about this.

I would post about how my own mother believes my nose looks better after a traumatic car accident and medically-necessary nose-job, but it would break my heart. Apparently, my nose surgeon picked a poverty-stricken nose shape for me.